Reply With QuoteYet they busted a bollock to keep the six nations free-to-airOriginally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
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Yet they busted a bollock to keep the six nations free-to-air
who did ?
Another reason to bin my Sky package when it finishes. All these different streaming services are a pain.
England meanwhile are free on ITV, unless that's due to change as well.
How many more streaming services are there?
Of course they are. Everyone wants to watch good old England don't they, even if they live in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland...
Dafuqs Viaplay? And do the FAW only call the national team Cymru now?
Out of interest how long have Uefa dealt with the broadcasting rights??
Some useful info here. The quote of £32 a month is ridiculous https://www.reviewsfire.com/vpn/how-...lay-in-the-uk/
Cymru Wales Cymru
They won't charge that.
Who did?
Isn’t Six Nations going on to Amazon?
Yes, have done for a while now. It means Wales in Welsh
Free to air broadcasters
Where's your source?
Why aren't England's games included in this new agreement?
Viaplay well hey.Will there be any porn on there.
They don't want to be I guess? Presumably Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales do?
Retrograde step in my opinion
I think it would be safe to assume that Viaplay have made a significant bid for these rights. From my limited understanding of TV rights there are two packages up for grabs - WC/Euro qualifiers and Nations League/friendlies. Oddly, in my view, rights for the 4 home nations are awarded on a UK-wide basis, and have been since 2014 when UEFA centralised the bidding process for them.
Sky held the rights to all of Wales, Scotland and N Ireland's games, plus England's Nations League/friendlies package. ITV won the bid for all the England qualifiers. In a recent qualification campaign, Scotland vs England was available on STV but as a result of ITV having the UK-wide rights to England's qualifiers. The rest of the UK have to put up with England games on free-to-air while their country's games are on Sky.
Any broadcaster owning the rights have the right to sell those rights on, as Sky have done with S4C, who pay Sky to show the games in Wales in the medium of Welsh. Sky could, of course, provide its own commentary and not sell on the rights to a free-to-air channel. Amazon did the same last autumn for Welsh rugby internationals.
I would assume that there is significant advertising revenue to be gained when showing England internationals. Channel 4 have won the rights to show England's Nations League games and friendlies from 2024, while qualifiers will continue to be on ITV. I'm just guessing here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the bids from C4 and ITV are high enough for the FA to be happy with in order to keep games on free-to-air TV.
As for the other countries in the UK, they would be of no interest to the commercial free-to-air broadcasters. Nether BBC Wales nor S4C could afford the rights to Wales' games given what the subscribers would be prepared to pay for them, figures substantially lower than the FA would get for England's rights. Would the FAW lose a few million a year just for Welsh games to be on FTA? Of course they wouldn't. Sadly, we can also moan about 6 nations games being on FTA, but they're of far more interest to commercial broadcasters than Welsh football internationals.
What may be interesting is that Viaplay will be able to sell on the rights to our games.
Looks like I’ll be donning my tricorn and setting sail for the high seas. Yo ho it’s a pirates life for me.
Yes and no. You are right that it's interesting, and wholesale arrangements to sell rights is really where the money is made in buying sports rights. Companies that expect to buy a set of rights and exploit that exclusively though direct subscriptions from customers don't stick around for long. If you buy a rights package then you need to get that content to as many people as possible as fast as possible and that is rarely via your own platform- in most cases you need to cut deals with competitors to share, or to bundle your programming into their subscription services.
But the rights holders don't have carte blanche and the league's and clubs/national football associations have influence. Sky can't just buy the rights to EPL games and license playboy to broadcast it and you can see why not.
So Wales matches come off S4C at the same time that England matches go to C4.
We have to start paying whilst English fans keep getting their games for free.
Cheers then UEFA.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...nations-league
Nothing to do with UEFA. The FAW decides which bid to accept in the same way that the FA decides what bids to accept for England games. For small football associations like ours, the difference of a few million pounds is massive.
Quoting the article linked in the first post of the thread:
"The agreement comes through UEFA's centralised National Association media rights sales process, under which UEFA takes sole responsibility for the marketing and sales of broadcast rights for member associations."
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