Re: Season tickets : Wed Oct 06, 2021 5:46 pm  

Ive heard today there is compensation for televised Monday games

It is currently scheduled for everyone home and away plus a SB

Re: Season tickets : Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:01 pm  

Betsy Bulls wrote:

Ive heard today there is compensation for televised Monday games

It is currently scheduled for everyone home and away plus a SB

So key thing is going to be how may times we're scheduled for a Monday. I'm guessing the fixtures wont be released until after the earlybird deadline either. No doubt I'll end up just getting a season ticket out of some sense of misguided loyalty as I usually do

Re: Season tickets : Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:32 pm  

TBH moving fixtures to accommodate TV isn’t a new problem

I think I also read something that there would be some kind of offer to st Holders in terms of subscription costs

Re: Season tickets : Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:12 am  

mat wrote:

Haven't heard anything about any money changing hands for the TV rights so doubt clubs are getting any payments to compensate for reduced attendances either.

Apparently it's a 'six figure sum' for the rights which puts it somewhere between £100K and £999K, but I'd be amazed if it isn't at the lower end. It's being suggested by Martyn Sadler that it will be scaled based on finishing positions.

Re: Season tickets : Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:30 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

Apparently it's a 'six figure sum' for the rights which puts it somewhere between £100K and £999K, but I'd be amazed if it isn't at the lower end. It's being suggested by Martyn Sadler that it will be scaled based on finishing positions.

Sadler mentioned 'a few hundred grand' in one of his posts so that suggests around 300k and doesn't specify whether thats per year of for the whole two years. Id imagine the scaling portion kicks in depending on how may time a team features on a monday. so every team gets a small amount up front and then extra payments to the teams appearing on tv ( and taking hit on attendances). You would assume they will be sensible about kickoff times and make it 7:30-8:30 so at least people working have a chance of attending. IF they do something ridiculous like 6pm kickoff then hit to attendance will be massive.

[Bullseye]

Re: Season tickets : Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:27 am  

It's £200k. Clubs will receive around £6k each. It's not much is it? Clubs will need to really sell the fact that they're being televised to sponsors or they'll be out of pocket.

Re: Season tickets : Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:33 pm  

Wow, so we've 'sold' the TV rights for 100K a year? Maybe the pizza deals wasn't so bad afterall!!

Is the sport really THAT unattractive to a broadcaster that we cannot give it away? What a sad state of affairs, future looks bleak long term for Championship.

Re: Season tickets : Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:52 pm  

Where does it say £100k? Genuine question

Re: Season tickets : Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:12 pm  

Betsy Bulls wrote:

Where does it say £100k? Genuine question

It's a 2 year deal. 2 x 100K = 200K Or there or thereabouts. On a channel with limited exposure it's better than nothing but not by much.

Re: Season tickets : Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:58 am  

Likewise, we’ve sold tv rights for £200k to a league that previously was not shown and was thrown in as a freebie to the last broadcaster who didn’t want to show it even for free.

Super league sold the elite league sponsorship for free pizza or free advertising on a handful of lorries.

Super league has sold the elite league tv rights for a fraction of the last deal putting 10s of clubs at risk of financial ruin because the deal is so far reduced.

All about phasing and if you cup is half full or you’ve sold your cup to cut your cloth