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ALL midweek games to be available on Sky.
All games not played at 3pm on a Saturday allowed to be streamed on club websites.
Will it affect City?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/44437...ip-game-on-tv/
I think a lot of midweek Championship games are up against Champions League games on BT so makes sense for Sky to just have as many match options as they can. If you're a Championship fan and your team is away at a match you can't reach on a Tuesday or Wednesday you'll probably watch your team rather than the Champions League.
I should say those matches streamed on club websites apply only to games not on Sky. So if City are on a Friday night for Sky then it's not available. If it's moved because of a rugby international then it probably will be.
I thought this was great at first but now I think itll be detrimental to attendances. Massively.
I believe the 3pm kick offs have always been unavailable to people in this country in order to protect attendances and therefore club revenue. However with attendances being a smaller percentage of club income these days with the the astronomical tv deals I can see why the bigger clubs want to open up their games to a wider fan base.
I think in the near future , Amazon , Netflix , Facebook etc will enter the market and provide subscription services to each club.
I was caught out by how much the sky commentator dramatically announcing "the return of Friday night football" would turn me off yesterday. Football every day of the week just isn't appealing.
It may be contrary to what the police want but as a fan, and as a neutral who may watch a game on TV, I would prefer midweek games to be local derbies in order to boost the odds of a good crowd. Not much worse than at least 10% off home attendance and 200 away fans. We've regionalised the league cup so can we try it with football league?