Hello @hifo13
Are you sure you mean MySports and not blue Sport?
An email came today from blue Sport that from September 1st the price for blue Sport will climb to 34.90 for existing customers.
@Albatros2 no in 8K 🤣
Joking aside. Acquiring sports rights is a real struggle these days, especially when it comes to the sports of football and ice hockey.
What I don’t understand is that there are various other sports that would be even more interesting than constantly pushing the ball around.
I would like to be able to negotiate something with Discovery or DYN.
Then you would be much more versatile.
DYN certainly has almost no subscribers from Switzerland and Discovery+ is no longer represented in Switzerland after Eurosport Player/Premium ended.
@roku73 wrote:
All joking aside. Acquiring sports rights is a real struggle these days, especially when it comes to the sports of football and ice hockey.
What I don’t understand is that there are various other sports that would be even more interesting than constantly pushing the ball around.
That ball pushing is something that, of all the sports on TV, attracts the most TV viewers to their screens.
You can count on one hand the sports that attract TV viewers to their screens.
Football, ski racing, motorsport, tennis, ice hockey
Almost no one watches the rest and it is uninteresting for pay-TV broadcasters.
In 1997, a pay-TV platform, ITV Digital, launched, paying huge sums for football rights and not sublicensing.
The fact is that exclusivity in pay TV is only a reason for a very small proportion of TV viewers to change their TV provider.
2002 bankruptcy.
It was imagined that a number of paying TV viewers would switch pay-TV providers.
For a long time, the British Football Association had a problem with the rights being held by a company that had gone bankrupt.
Sublicensing is now taking place in Great Britain in order to make the rights financially viable.
Ice hockey attracts around 10 times fewer TV viewers than football.
There was a repetition. Cablecom also paid a huge sum for the ice hockey rights and did not sublicense. At the time, the football association did not respond to this completely exaggerated offer.
The boss at the time, Mr. Tveter, ruled out any sublicensing.
The ice hockey rights caused a huge hole in Cablecom’s coffers every year. With the football rights they might have broken Cablecom’s neck.
That only changed when Mr. Tveter left Cablecom…
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