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sherer 27-03-2005 13:26

Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
I was thinking about this while on holiday. Just been away to Lanzarote, for a cultural break :D

Over there at 3 PM on Saturday they show loads of prem football via foreign sat channels i.e Canal Plus in France and some Asia channels as well so you can see the matches live as they happen. I've also seen this done in a few pubs in the UK as well. I know Sky or the BBC can't show a match live beteen 2:30 and 5:00 on a Saturday.

Why don't NTL offer these channels to us so we can still watch Prem football as it happens ?

Tristan 27-03-2005 14:32

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
If it's not legal for Sky or the BBC to show it, doesn't that give you a clue that *no* channels are allowed to show these matches in the UK?

And yes, it does take the **** that we get to see fewer live Premiership matches than people in Spain. But blame the Premier League for that...

sherer 27-03-2005 15:10

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
i think it's not legal for the UK stations to broadcast these but i don't think it's illegal for a TV company to show a foreign feed.. plenty of pubs already do this to still show matches so it can't be illegal and if NTL could offer canel plus they would have no control over the content they showed so if a match was on at 3 it wouldn't be NTL's fault

richmond 27-03-2005 20:31

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ive got a website that shows free football www.freefootball.org and www.streaming soccer.eu.tt/you may have to have winamp or though there are sites you can watch through media player ive watched all prem plus football as well as italian/spanish/portuguese/dutch as well as all world cup qualifiers and champions league hope this is of use to you

Horace 27-03-2005 21:49

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by sherer
plenty of pubs already do this to still show matches so it can't be illegal and if NTL could offer canel plus they would have no control over the content they showed so if a match was on at 3 it wouldn't be NTL's fault

It is illegal and plenty of pubs have been fined for it. Oh and C+ also show hardcore porn too which also would be illegal.

Pieman 30-03-2005 15:46

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Thinking back I seem to recall - the reason why Channels over here are not allowed to show games at 3pm on a Saturday is because it could affect attendences at the smaller league grounds.........and of course we all know how considerate the big clubs are of the Cambridge United's of the world......

sherer 30-03-2005 16:00

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
yeah that's the reason behind it.. it's just a shame that in today's technalogical age NTL can't show the feeds from the Asain and French channels.. etc.. would be a good way for NTL to do something Sky couldn't but as has been pointed out it would still be illegal although you could argue this the same way newsgroups are allowed through NTL in that they can't control the content.

Monster Jedi 30-03-2005 18:02

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Horace
It is illegal and plenty of pubs have been fined for it. Oh and C+ also show hardcore porn too which also would be illegal.

Excellent :D :tu:

addiman 16-04-2005 16:06

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
can anyone please tell me how to get a football match up to watch?

jonifen 17-04-2005 12:33

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
I watched the Liverpool vs Juventus game online the other night using a program called Coolstreaming. Not the best quality like, and the commentary was Chinese, but it was better than listening to it on Radio 5 (I dont have Sky Sports by the way...)

I do know that they broadcast quite a few of the 3pm kick-off games for the Premiership though...

yesman 27-08-2007 00:16

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by sherer (Post 437095)
yeah that's the reason behind it.. it's just a shame that in today's technalogical age NTL can't show the feeds from the Asain and French channels.. etc.. would be a good way for NTL to do something Sky couldn't but as has been pointed out it would still be illegal although you could argue this the same way newsgroups are allowed through NTL in that they can't control the content.

I think Mr Murdoch might have something to say to Mr Branson if ever that did happen, as undoubtedly sky would lose revenue.........(shame) :D

iglu 27-08-2007 06:41

Re: Live Premiership Football via Foreign Channels
 
"Richmond" above gave you the links... Most Hong Kong stations have English commentators (ESPN Hong Kong) but the match analysis is in Chinese... The matches are almost live, you can have as much as 4-5 minutes delay...


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