BT’s successful £897m bid for UK Champions League and Europa League rights is one of the most significant commercial developments for Celtic in years – if we continue to qualify for the Champions League group stage.
This money, £299m per season, more than double the current deal, is paid directly to Uefa. What participating teams receive is directly linked to the value their domestic TV rights raise. If Scottish clubs participate, they earn 10% of the UK distribution.
Scottish Premiership TV rights are currently shared by BT and Sky but they are worth a fraction of what they went for the last time a competitor (Setanta) made a genuine challenge to Sky. It would literally take loose change from BT’s budget to remove Sky from the required list of providers for Scottish football fans. Whatever the next SPFL deal looks like, having two major players bidding should ensure it is worth a lot more money.
The same is true for English football rights. 20 years ago Sky built their UK business on the back of English Premier League broadcast rights. If BT want to supplant them in the TV market, enhance their ISP position and secure a lead in the emerging services on-demand market, English Premier League rights will be the major battleground.
BSkyB share prices is down around 10% today, reflecting the reality that they will either have to pay a whole lot more for the same rights in future, or they risk losing market share. I’d be very happy to dump Sky, which has recently resembled a tax on committed Scottish football fans without the corresponding revenue spend.
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A position I agree with. Scottish football is one one of the best supported leagues per head of population in Europe (in terms of gate receipts). We have about 10% of the population of England but do we even get anywhere near 10% of the TV deal? Absolutely not. I have long predicted that the financial bubble in England has to burst at some point, and with the debts some of their club are carrying, more European revenue could be the boost a club like Celtic need to compete against the teams from the larger leagues!
HT
Because I would be very careful NOT to fall into that media trap you so accurately mentioned, I have just looked again.
All I can say with conviction is that Celtic colours are in evidence amongst those throwing the bottles.
JJ
Executive bonuses are always tied in with financial performance. Way of the world.
If they are not then we end up with the idiots of the calibre of Malcolm Murray (and he has 1/3 of a century experience of the City of London, dontcha know??).
Who was the last forward we signed who hit the ground running… My memory makes it Chris Sutton but my me memory is like a… thing you get in a kitchen, 80’s Celtic defence… one of those…
Yorkbhoy…
Zurawski?
Joe Filippis Haircut
09:03 on 12 November, 2013
John Park’s remit to find and scout players. He was in China with PL.
Yorkbhoy
Pukki? Well, according to Kojo, he at least fits the bill for the hits the ground part.
Off out for a wee bike ride,
JJ
Both McDonald and Hooper (after his initial injury) hit the ground running!!
Pukki hasn’t but will come good…..I seem to have blind faith in him:-)
So murray wants the locusts removed at the agm ……. Too late, shun ..!!!!
SB ……………….£10m
Share issue……£22m (not)
……………and they still make a £14m loss……£46m…..ouch !!!…….someone’s hand is in the till…….
Only a matter of time now ….TICK TOCK …..!!!!!!!’
Son of Zheng Zhi Returns!!!…..in 3D at a cinema near you soon
So now someone on here is telling us not to to the CSC on London road after the AGM, I will go where I want to go after the AGM, and so will others, and that’s it, I just don’t get it why he is making bad publicity for the CSC on London Rd. Not even saying on his opinion why he won’t be going no! He just posts, DO NOT GO TO THE CSC after the AGM, looks like he didn’t get his way AGAIN, and the toys ain’t in the pram, AGAIN.?
Any update on the meeting arrangements for AGM ?
JFH I believe John Park was on the China trip and would assume that he looked at various prospects. If you have evidence to the contrary I,d love to see it. Hail Hail Hebcelt
tonydonnelly67
Not been on much lately , what’s happening before and after AGM ?
How is it that John Park canny see players like
Johnny Russell ?
Billy McKay ?
Wes Hollihan ?
Barry Bannon ?
Please don’t insult my inteligence by saying rubbish like we canny afford EPL wages for the last two players on that list when – we can find ‘almost’ EPL wages for
Joe (the ghost)Ledley and Scott Brown ?
Ryecatcher
Think you’ll find that said dignified alky is also somewhat pish stained :-&))
Seriously where dies this trumpet get off preaching about sevco and the financial mess they are in
He was the feckin chairman when this unsustainable football model was put in place …..more than a passing responsibility
KevJungle,
With the exception of Russell the others you have listed are crap!!
Sorry
Kayal33 sorry did,nt see your post. I agree entirely. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Kevjungle.
He could see and obviously wasn’t interested as they aren’t good enough. Next?
kevjungle
“Joe ( the ghost ) Ledley ”
2 goals last Saturday .
No too bad for a ghost :-))))
Dirtymac-thanks for your reply mate.HH
That’ll be Joe ‘the ghost’ Ledley who scored twice on Saturday????!!!!!
CasperCSC
JJ
So we’re agreed that the evidence isn’t conclusive that it was Celtic supporters who threw missiles? :-)
Fourgreenfields
There is a post from Morrissey re the CSC about 1am which explains most
A few non curmudgeonly bhoys are going out for was few in the town
BT , OldTim and others … I’m not going to the AGM but meeting them later
niallo83
09:27 on 12 November, 2013
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Well, with visionaries like you on the majority of CP mindset
it’s little wonder that attendances are ‘teetering’ just above the 20k mark.
….pfayr supports weeoscar
Thanks , hopefully catch up with you after AGM for a few drinks .
kevjungle
Martin Peters was known as ‘the ghost’, what a player he was. I take it your reference to Joe Ledley in the same terms as Peters is a compliment ;-)
The Honest Mistake loves being first
09:27 on 12 November, 2013
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So, Pukki – Balde – Biton – Rogic etc
are convincing you then ?
Good luck.
Hebcelt
Ye ken it was that Lawwell beggar…ye ken what he’s like :-))
Seriously John Park was there …however PL shouldn’t be commenting on the abilities of potential signings ….if nothing else it gives the wrong impression
Ryecatcher
Zurawski?
Didn’t he take a few months to score?
Never thought of Hooper…
Joe (the ghost) – scored against a defence so bad that even the Celtic strikers
couldny score against – and that makes him a player ?
Kayal33
09:32 on 12 November, 2013
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Aye – :)
Martin Peters – never in the same class as Joe (the ghost) imo :)
HH
Kevjungle 9:34
The conclusion to your statement is counterintuitive
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
09:28 on 12 November, 2013
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Aye – Casper right enough :)
Belated congratulations on yer recent ‘match-up’ btw
all the very best to you both.
Hail Hail
Kev
Cheers, Ledley’s best man btw :-)
KevJ………clutching at straws this morning….hehe
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
09:37 on 12 November, 2013
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Well, since you seem to have yer ‘court-room’ attire on
ah’ll joost agree wi ye :)
HH
Kevjungle
Btw …I agreed with your comment re MON …..the Huns had spent a fortune assembling a squad to try to win a European trophy( no laughing at the back) and had won the league by 20 points the season before ..
Spoken to PL a few times. Listened to him being interviewed numerous times. Chap doesn’t use words like ‘profound’ and ‘phenomenal’ in ordinary course, let alone when describing the talent of a footballer he has an eye to signing.