The FA Community Shield isn't in the listings for Saturday 10th August. PS1 is showing the friendly between Bayer Leverkusen and Real Betis. This is on both the RoI & GB website. PS2 is showing Irish Open tennis according to the GB listings. No PS2 listings on the RoI site for whatever reason.
While we wait to hear about the EPCR rights, two rights losses and a renewal for TNT. TNT has lost the rights to the fifth division of English football, the National League (probably more well known by its old moniker of the Conference) which is going to Dazn. They will also be losing the rights to the NBA after next season, which goes back to Sky, along with Amazon and ESPN who will also have rights.
On the positive side they’ve renewed Serie A rights.
You have to kinda break the market down.
In ROI there’s not much difference between it being on TNT or Premier, from a subscriber point of view it’s the one pack, at least for twelve months more. Really this shouldn’t drive any change in subscription format in this market.
For the UK, I think you need to break it into Scotland/Wales/NI, where the URC’s already on Premier, and so there would be a subscription driver for rugby fans there already, particularly in Scotland where Premier have more or less exclusive rights to Glasgow and Edinburgh games. England is an entirely different kettle of fish, the URC is not a subscription driver there, and so that will be where the main bone of contention over Premier getting the rights may lie. As I recall the 2014-18 split gave BT (as was) first pick over PRL teams home games, and maybe if it really is a split deal there’ll be something similar this time around.
it does seem like TNT is choosing to be more frugal with their money. I don't see Premier Sports getting significant subscribers just from this deal to break even?? Is there that hard core of Rugby supporters that would pay the average price of £15pm to pay for the 6-8million per year its gonna cost PS?
Means no pre game build up or post game analysis, half time coverage, if there is any (and there often isn’t on Premier, who prefer to show any one of their myriad of prerecorded clips of goals/tries from the previous week) will just be the commentators talking over some replays. So coverage starts with the kick off whistle (in reality it’ll be a few minutes before to show the team sheets) and ends moments after the final whistle. Hence “ whistle to whistle”.
Apologies for my ignorance but what does 'whistle to whistle coverage' mean?
One of the reasons the “share the rights” version seems plausible. Premier are already covering 8 games a weekend for the URC, but moving up to the 12 the Champions Cup would require (plus at least some coverage of the European Challenge Cup) seems to be too far.
For me, my worry would be that Premier simply couldn’t do this tournament the justice that we’ve come to expect over the last two decades or so. They simply don’t have the resources that Sky or TNT would have. I would expect a lot of games, certainly those hosted by French, South African, or Italian clubs, to move to whistle to whistle coverage.
That article reads like a puff piece for Mickey O’Rourke. If PS do get the European rugby rights, how will they manage to fit in everything on their two channels?
Rumours swirling tonight, fuelled by this report by Brendan Fanning on RugbyPass, that Premier Sports have won either all of the rights to the Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup or (in another version of the story also doing the rounds) a share of the rights with TNT retaining a smaller share, in a similar arrangement to what pertained between Sky and TNT’s predecessor BT Sport in 2014-2018
https://amp.rugbypass.com/news/premier-sports-swoop-in-for-champions-cup-rights/
https://premiersportsireland.com/uk-football/
Arsenal v Wolves – 17/8/2024
Man City v Ipswich – 24/8/2024
Leicester City v Aston Villa – 31/8/2024
Liverpool v Notts Forrest – 14/9/2024
Liverpool v Bournemouth – 21/9/2024
Arsenal v Leicester – 28/9/2024
Ah ok. The Premier Sports Ireland website has a rolling list of fixtures up to the end of August, no mention (yet) of the Community Shield. Programme guide only goes up to Monday 29th July for now.
if they did it last year they will do it this year.
That will be the last under this deal though, it moves to TNT after that.
I'd be very surprised if they don't rebroadcast ITV's coverage.
My memory is terrible but I found references to premier showing it last year. I think it is included in their fa cup rights and yes as you said a rebroadcast of itv.
Ah cheers, honestly knew that but was wondering if Premier will run the ITV feed for Irish subs like last year’s FA Cup. Not entirely sure if they done that for last years Community Shield
On ITV in the UK.
https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-english-football-on-tv.html
Anyone any idea if the Community Shield is being screened by Premier this August?
Yes - really strange, but they are still uploading to the TV Listing site. All the TV Listing Guides have the schedule -
here's a sample of Saturday's listings
Sky Guide https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20240713/4104-50
Radio Times https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20240713/4104-50 -
TVguide.co.uk https://www.tvguide.co.uk/sky/republic-of-ireland?hour=14&view=grid&date=2024-07-13
Still no sign of those July listings and we’re a third of the way through the month now.
Premier's red button Wimbledon coverage. Extra1
What channel is Extra 1?
Yep was just about to post.PGA tour marquee group which apart from being a weird mistake to make, could be a huge breach of copyright/licensing.
There's Golf showing up on Extra 1 today.
The extra Wimbledon streams are working on Sky Stream today.
Meanwhile, remember those classic GAA rights Premier bought? They’re actually showing some tonight, seems to be the 2013 All Ireland Hurling Final between Cork and Clare. The really bizarre thing: it’s got GAAGO’s graphics! (GAAGo didn’t even exist at the time and those graphics were only introduced last season anyway).
iPlayer likely full of them.
Just can't understand why they aren't made available either. On Q they are all streamed to begin with. The hard part is already done surely.
There's no extra courts on Sky Stream which is annoying.
Unfortunately Now TV customers only have access to what’s on Premier 1, but I didn’t expect any different. It’s a pity as we’ve had Sky Sports red button content for a bit, if you know where to look (not always obvious I’m afraid).
3 extra feeds on premier's Wimbledon coverage. Although extra 1 is currently the same as the main channel. Still beats BBC who managed to come on air early, talk for 45 minutes and miss the first game in their first featured match.
I should add this is red button on sky q.
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