Originally Posted by Richc1977 (Post 35927836)

Didn't know they showed Sport on SyFy

West Ham V Chelsea is showing on Sky Sports Mix this Saturday, becoming the trend now to show a game on mix ahead of an attractive double header.

Originally Posted by Richc1977 (Post 35927836)

Didn't know they showed Sport on SyFy

West Ham V Chelsea is showing on Sky Sports Mix this Saturday, becoming the trend now to show a game on mix ahead of an attractive double header.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35927869)

Yes, obviously a teaser to get people to add sky sports.

Good for those that don't subscribe to SS but of little use to those that do.

Originally Posted by telegramsam (Post 35927898)

Helpful also for those of us who don't sub to sky sports HD.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35928076)

BBC extends World Snooker broadcast deal up to 2023-24 season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/42265468

Originally Posted by Gavin-D (Post 35928781)

Sky Sports and the Professional Darts Corporation sign 7-year contract extension until 2025

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35928782)

Yes, and you can also stream this from the BBC i-Player, Den! ;)

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35929316)

I'll be devastated if the Premier League don't get as much as they expect..............honest.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35925366)

With Amazon securing exclusive tennis rights in the UK, it would seem that the next domino to fall to them could be the Football Premiership rights.

https://www.rapidtvnews.com/20171117...#axzz4yh7IbZKU

However, current thinking seems to be that Amazon will not enter the game until the following bidding process in 2022. This now seems the most likely scenario, but I'm not ruling out the possibility that Amazon might surprise everybody with a bid this time around. Maybe to test the waters, they will start with one of the smaller packages.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35929416)

Will streaming be profitable though?

For instance, if a company gets a premier league package it won't be one of the all games in one round package, because they simply won't have the infrastructure to be able to film all of them in a 2-3 day period.
If someone like Amazon got some of the Premier League matches I think it would alienate a hell of a lot of people like me who don't want to sit in front of a computer screen watching football or have the know how to hook it up to their TV.
Whatever package they bid for the cost of filming and distribution will be enormous compared with the benefits.

Just how much will people pay for access to the stream?

NRL (Australian rugby league) is moving to streaming of all games in 2018 - no indication of cost as yet (apart from saying an equivalent for a different sport was approx. £20pm) - NRL was on Premier Sports (£10pm) so as far as I can see there will be few people willing to pay much more than £5pm for access to the streaming.

I i agine the feed will be from Australian broadcasters so apart from cost for the rights and streaming costs there can be little extra costs, but will they be able to make it pay?