CL - any effect on ITV FTA outside UK?

Rizzo the Rat

UEFA have annonced new contract for 2006 - 2009 in the UK.

"BSkyB and ITV will continue to screen Champions League games in the three seasons from 2006 to 2009, UEFA have announced.

The current arrangement where ITV shows the best two matches live on Tuesdays and Sky shows the other games on Tuesdays and all Wednesday games live will remain in place.

The announcement has been widely expected and was only held up by discussions over UEFA's insistence the broadcasters simultaneously transmit all their live matches over the internet.

The agreement also falls in line with European Commission rules, avoiding the dispute with Brussels which continues to dog the Premier League over their TV rights sales.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson said: "The UEFA Champions League in the UK almost always plays to full stadia and invariably provides dramatic entertainment.

"UEFA is delighted to be renewing its broadcasting arrangements in the UK with two such committed and high quality partners as ITV and BSkyB."

With reference to matches involving Scottish clubs, any match played on Tuesday when two English clubs are playing, will also be shown live by ITV in its Scottish regions. Wednesday matches involving Scottish clubs will always be shown live by BSkyB."

markmiller321

I wonder if they will show them FTA on satellite or just on Freeview in the UK and northern ireland

Mossy Monk

i'd imagine they will show the games FTA. ITV i'd imagine would have taken FTA into consideration when negotiating the rights

byte

Hmm, it's hard to know, but if UEFA insist on broadcasts via the internet also, maybe rights are cleared for FTA broadcasting. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

dmeehan

bbc limit some of their broadband content to those accessing from the UK
probably use ip adrdess to determine the location