Leicester Rule! Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 They will not announce this until at least 7.15 pm today but it now looks as if BBC will show it as highlights later tonight. Kentaro want to sell the highlights but they want secrecy so as not to damage the pay-per-view package on the web. Kentaro have offered it to ITV, BBC, Channel Four and other broadcaster for about £500,000 but the TV companies were looking to pay half that. ITV walked away last night, refusing to accept Kentaro's demand for no publicity. BBC is the most obvious for a highlights show, which could go out tonight after the late news bulletin and into the traditional Match of the Day slot before The Football League Show. So check, your tv listings after 7.15 pm tonight and hopefully it will be there. Good source.
davieG Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 They will not announce this until at least 7.15 pm today but it now looks as if BBC will show it as highlights later tonight. Kentaro want to sell the highlights but they want secrecy so as not to damage the pay-per-view package on the web. Kentaro have offered it to ITV, BBC, Channel Four and other broadcaster for about £500,000 but the TV companies were looking to pay half that. ITV walked away last night, refusing to accept Kentaro's demand for no publicity. BBC is the most obvious for a highlights show, which could go out tonight after the late news bulletin and into the traditional Match of the Day slot before The Football League Show. So check, your tv listings after 7.15 pm tonight and hopefully it will be there. Good source. Perhaps the thread would be better titled 'highlights will be on'
Edmund Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 They will not announce this until at least 7.15 pm today but it now looks as if BBC will show it as highlights later tonight. Kentaro want to sell the highlights but they want secrecy so as not to damage the pay-per-view package on the web. Kentaro have offered it to ITV, BBC, Channel Four and other broadcaster for about £500,000 but the TV companies were looking to pay half that. ITV walked away last night, refusing to accept Kentaro's demand for no publicity. BBC is the most obvious for a highlights show, which could go out tonight after the late news bulletin and into the traditional Match of the Day slot before The Football League Show. So check, your tv listings after 7.15 pm tonight and hopefully it will be there. Good source. The way you worded the title of this thread made me think the footy would be live on the box.
Webbo Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 They will not announce this until at least 7.15 pm today but it now looks as if BBC will show it as highlights later tonight. Kentaro want to sell the highlights but they want secrecy so as not to damage the pay-per-view package on the web. Kentaro have offered it to ITV, BBC, Channel Four and other broadcaster for about £500,000 but the TV companies were looking to pay half that. ITV walked away last night, refusing to accept Kentaro's demand for no publicity. BBC is the most obvious for a highlights show, which could go out tonight after the late news bulletin and into the traditional Match of the Day slot before The Football League Show. So check, your tv listings after 7.15 pm tonight and hopefully it will be there. Good source. I don't think I'll bother.
Cobbo Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 OOH, HERE'S SOME NEWS YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN: Highlights of Ukraine v England will be on BBC1 at 2215 BST, simulcast on this website and available on iPlayer.
Bert Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 The BBC has secured the rights to show highlights of England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on Saturday night. BBC One will screen the game from 2215 BST and it will also be simulcast on the BBC Sport website and the game will also be available on the BBC iPlayer. Fans had to pay up to £11.99 to see the action live via the internet with cinemas across the UK also screening the game, which England lost 1-0. It was the first time an England fixture had been broadcast this way. Kentaro - an international agency appointed by the Ukrainian Football Federation - originally sold the UK rights for the game to Setanta. But after the pay-TV firm collapsed, digital sport specialist Perform was appointed to stream the match online with the traditional broadcasters understood to be unwilling to pay the asking price for broadcast rights. ITV has the rights to home England games and, under the terms of their contract, has taken over Setanta's broadcast rights for away friendlies, but not qualifying games. The BBC were granted the highlights rights after last-minute negotiations, with part of the deal stipulating the announcement would not be made until the conclusion of the match which saw keeper Robert Green sent off and Sergiy Nazarenko score a first-half winner for Ukraine. Some supporters' groups were angry ahead of England's visit to Dnepropetrovsk, having to either pay the subscription or find one of the 13 Odeon cinemas across the country to watch the action on television. It was unavailable in pubs or clubs. Kentaro said it was taking a maximum of one million subscribers for the match, which equates to around 2.5 million viewers, with the fee rising from £4.99 earlier in the week to £11.99 on Saturday. Perform, who already stream around 8,000 games per year - including the Manchester City and Tottenham matches in the Uefa Cup last year, was confident the picture quality would be high, insisting they could cope with heavy demand. And despite some technology experts predicting a potential meltdown, access to the website proved easy on Saturday afternoon and the stream ran smoothly throughout with a more than reasonable picture quality. Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson was part of the studio team, alongside presenter James Richardson, while commentary was provided by Tony Jones and David Pleat. Although unable to reveal the number of subscribers before the match, a Kentaro spokesperson said they were "happy with the interest it's attracted from fans", while the chairman of Perform believed the internet first for England would be a success. "People have polarised views about it, but people have always had polarised views about new technology or ways of viewing sports over the years," Perform's Andrew Croker said. "I think if it had been a critical match it would have got quite emotional but, as it is, I am astonished at the level of interest. "I don't think it is any tipping point in terms of new media because people have been streaming live sport for quite a long time now. This has just caught the public's imagination."
sdb Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 they shouldn't have bothered - looked awful from the stop-start mess i got on my comp!
jonthefox Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 Im convinced the fa had a hand in this. Can you imagine us all paying for it in our thousands. by the time the world cup came around , it would be the norm to pay. i, for one am glad they f***ked up.
Bluefoxtim Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 I watched the last 15 minutes for free on Bet365 - wouldn't let me go fullscreen which wasn't great, but it was ok.
davieG Posted 10 October 2009 Posted 10 October 2009 Im convinced the fa had a hand in this.Can you imagine us all paying for it in our thousands. by the time the world cup came around , it would be the norm to pay. i, for one am glad they f***ked up. Well you'd be wrong the FA doesn't have that much influence in European or World football like it did in the past.
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