Eleven Sports - Down to La Liga - hands back Serie A

alan.p22 · 13-07-2018 3:20pm

Just to add that you dont need to subscribe to sky digital to get the bt/eir pack.Use the box as a fta box and pay your bt/eir subscription as normal

Tigerandahalf · 13-07-2018 4:19pm

alan.p22 wrote: »

Just to add that you dont need to subscribe to sky digital to get the bt/eir pack.Use the box as a fta box and pay your bt/eir subscription as normal

You do need the phone/broadband package. Broadband only won't do.

Johnboy1951 · 13-07-2018 4:27pm

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

You do need the phone/broadband package. Broadband only won't do.

I read this as phone only won't do but broadband only will

https://www.eir.ie/sport/eir-customers/

batistuta9 · 13-07-2018 4:34pm

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I read this as phone only won't do but broadband only will

You're probably right, they increased the bb price by around 5/pm when they started offering the eir sport pack 'free' along with it

alan.p22 · 13-07-2018 5:31pm

Tigerandahalf wrote:

Depends on what you watch. If you're a rugby fan it is decent value. The problem is having to pay the sky charge under it.

Tigerandahalf wrote:

I am wondering if we will see BT launch its channels on freesat at some stage. A lot of people would happily pay â‚¬230 a year if they didn't have to pay the â‚¬6/700 p/y to sky for channels that are free to air.

Sorry what i meant was you dont need to subscribe to sky to use a sky box for the bt/eir pack

icdg · 13-07-2018 8:39pm

Maybe we can keep this thread for Eleven Sports

IsMiseJoe · 14-07-2018 1:11pm

According to wikipedia Sports broadcasting contracts in the UK
The Welsh language channel S4C has highlights for La Liga.

icdg · 14-07-2018 2:58pm

I am not sure if that is still the case, or even when it used to be the case, that it was any more than a short package on a programme that carries coverage of multiple European leagues.

ziggyman17 · 14-07-2018 4:08pm

Will be hard for both Sky and BT to fill there weekends with live sport now, Saturday and Sunday nights were both taken up with Live Spanish and Italian football , I still cannot see how they can justify their prices when particuarly Sky have lost lots of sport, Tennis going next year too.

fman · 14-07-2018 4:28pm

Yes looks like sky are putting all their eggs in the English league basket and hoping F1 and higher profile bits and pieces (golf) keep them going.
It does look they had minimal interest in Spanish and Italian rights, when they were outbid by virtual nobodies.

lertsnim · 14-07-2018 5:59pm

All sports channels are getting worse yet prices are ever increasing. It is no wonder so many people stream illegally

IsMiseJoe · 15-07-2018 9:11pm

lertsnim wrote: »

All sports channels are getting worse yet prices are ever increasing. It is no wonder so many people stream illegally

Unfortunately not everyone has the option of streaming. Living out in the shticks I don't have the patience to watch a poor quality stream.

mikeym · 15-07-2018 10:11pm

Will Eleven Sports be showing matches during the 3 O Clock blackout?

fman · 15-07-2018 10:15pm

It's a good question but they won't be allowed to in the UK anyway. So could be a test of their Irish commitment, especially since the classico has taken place in that spot more than once in recent years.

icdg · 15-07-2018 10:20pm

I would be surprised if there’s any difference between their UK & Irish offering tbh, certainly not in the two linear channels.

Zardoz · 18-07-2018 11:03am

fman wrote: »

Yes looks like sky are putting all their eggs in the English league basket and hoping F1 and higher profile bits and pieces (golf) keep them going.
It does look they had minimal interest in Spanish and Italian rights, when they were outbid by virtual nobodies.

Does anyone watch F1 these days ,its extremely boring and predictable .

irishfeen · 18-07-2018 11:45am

Zardoz wrote: »

Does anyone watch F1 these days ,its extremely boring and predictable .

When F1 was live on RTÉ I used to watch almost every single GP but since then it’s just not the same - haven’t watched a full GP in years.

lertsnim · 18-07-2018 12:14pm

Zardoz wrote: »

Does anyone watch F1 these days ,its extremely boring and predictable .

There's still a few of us.

wadacrack · 18-07-2018 12:16pm

Eleven Sports
‏ @ElevenSportsHQ
56m56 minutes ago

That now makes it 5️⃣ top flight domestic leagues LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on ELEVEN SPORTS in the UK and Ireland…

&#55356;&#56810;&#55356;&#56824; LaLiga ✅
&#55356;&#56814;&#55356;&#56825; Serie A ✅
&#55356;&#56819;&#55356;&#56817; Eredivisie ✅
&#55356;&#56808;&#55356;&#56819; Chinese Super League ✅
&#55356;&#56824;&#55356;&#56810; Allsvenskan ✅

IsMiseJoe · 18-07-2018 12:18pm

wadacrack wrote: »

Eleven Sports
‏ @ElevenSportsHQ
56m56 minutes ago

That now makes it 5️⃣ top flight domestic leagues LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on ELEVEN SPORTS in the UK and Ireland…

�� LaLiga ✅
�� Serie A ✅
�� Eredivisie ✅
�� Chinese Super League ✅
�� Allsvenskan ✅

Two more leagues gone from Sky. The CSL is rubbish though.

dulpit · 18-07-2018 12:32pm

Could advertising alone support a channel like this on Freesat I wonder? The fact it'd be a FTA channel offering good sports could attract a decent audience... Or is this destined to be online only with a sub?

Delta2113 · 18-07-2018 12:49pm

dulpit wrote: »

Could advertising alone support a channel like this on Freesat I wonder? The fact it'd be a FTA channel offering good sports could attract a decent audience... Or is this destined to be online only with a sub?

- You won't be getting it for FREE!

icdg · 18-07-2018 1:06pm

No, that’s not the model they are aiming at. I can’t see either the Chinese or Swedish League having much appeal - I guess the idea is to build a proposition around European football rights - if they captured the Bundesliga and Portuguese Primera Liga too then then they might have an overall collection of European football that might look enticing to some football fans. But I can see it being a minority proposition at best.

An Ciarraioch · 18-07-2018 1:40pm

A page of Eleven Sports FAQs - free registration has been live since Monday:

http://elevensports.com/territories/uk-ireland/uk-ireland-faqs/

TCP/IP · 18-07-2018 6:29pm

Zardoz wrote: »

Does anyone watch F1 these days ,its extremely boring and predictable .

Dam right I do watch practice 1,2,3 quali and full race in glorious 4k.

Agent Coulson · 20-07-2018 12:16am

They are now taking the UK and Ireland rights to the UFC off BT from 2019.

lertsnim · 20-07-2018 12:21am

Also some of the big events will go PPV so they can **** right off if they will show only some events as part of the subscription and then charge extra for some PPV's.

icdg · 20-07-2018 8:04am

That then is that “fight sports” announcement they alluded to in the initial press release.

The PPV model is what they use in the States to be fair, so it’s understandable that they’d want to go down that road - presumably they thought it wasn’t well known enough over here until now.

lertsnim · 20-07-2018 11:40am

icdg wrote: »

That then is that “fight sports” announcement they alluded to in the initial press release.

The PPV model is what they use in the States to be fair, so it’s understandable that they’d want to go down that road - presumably they thought it wasn’t well known enough over here until now.

The PPV model in the states doesn't have UFC events starting at 3am. You can't compare them.

icdg · 21-07-2018 3:47pm

USPGA Championship to Eleven Sports too apparently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-5976177/amp/Golf-fans-forced-cough-USPGA-goes-pay-TV-channel.html

Eleven Sports - Down to La Liga - hands back Serie A

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