Last week we discussed a Bloomberg article on the increasing availability of premium quality, pirated, broadcast content, made possible by set-top boxes. In short, products are available to make any amount of premium sports or movie content available to users without subscription, with little the law can do about it.
Quite apart from pirate viewing, subscription broadcast numbers are under pressure from legal streaming services, such as Amazon Instant Video and Netflix, a drift known as Cutting the Cord. A survey published this week reports that 8.2% of US broadcast subscribers ditched their service in 2014 in favour of streaming. More significantly, 45.2% of US subscribers report they cut back on content they paid their broadcast supplier for.
UK satellite and cable TV subscribers pay some of the top prices in the world for sports and other premium content. A dysfunctional market has emerged due to the controlling position of two players:
BSkyB, who dominate subscription TV supply in the UK
The FA Premier League, who own the key content for the UK market
Within this market there are winners and losers. The winners are English and Welsh football clubs who earn enormous revenues from the FA Premier League TV deal, and subsequent trickle-down monies. The losers are UK subscribers, who paid a fortune to keep the BskyB-FA Premier League contract in funds, and, of course, Scottish football clubs, who are excluded from the England and Wales league system.
Scotland is 8% of BskyB’s business, significant enough to make a dent in its revenues, but more importantly, if a US-style drift from expensive subscriptions is fostered in Scotland, it will move south soon enough.
I’ve been looking into this since we discussed it last week and will report back.
Shocked and stunned to read in the Daily Mail that Dave King met Sports Direct on the morning of his club’s EGM, as reported by Phil MacGiollaBhain a week ago. That will explain the lack of denial, I suppose. The interesting question is: Who gave the Daily Mail the story? Dave King, or through his PR company?
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cfc
Good afternoon everyone!
It’s a new day…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iCqNamu_Fpc
BMCUW,
That was my point :)
Top 5???
Canamalar
12:58 on
24 June, 2015
Turkeybhoy,
We’ve read and agreed with those articles, what do you suggest we do next ?
Should we stop discussing subjects applicable to everyone because you want a single subject forum ?
Turkeybhoy
12:58 on
24 June, 2015
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
12:41 on
24 June, 2015
PHYLLIS
Many of us have learned a lot from this site,mate.
We have indeed.Like Thompson Twin is some sort of deity.Three persons in the one trumpet.
Hallelujah.
Canamalar,did I say that?.
Top ten, and I read the article (after freezing initially)!
HH
That shower r finished. And it feels so good. Hail hail.
Taylor Swift will sort it out.
They should just appoint her Supreme Being of the World.
Take a look at @celticfc’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/celticfc/status/613671213248987138?s=09
Sad to see young John Herron leave,
A fine Bhoy with a great attitude and no shortage of ability,
He will have a great career elsewhere imo,
PAUL67
I think SKY publish ‘churn’ rates every quarter. Their income from subscribers and income per subscriber should also be available.
However,those figures won’t be broken down by ‘region’. To do so would be commercially dangerous,IMO.
Reason being the number of Scots who have had it with their sports coverage and who have either cancelled it or get it at a cheaper rate.
Auldheid………………..Any update on Res 12 please?
Paul,I am sure Level 5 gave out the story to try and diminish the effect the truth would have had.It has been carefully worded to make out it had nothing to do with Phils claims.
Too late,I would think.
Not for the chronic gullible,but many will be re-thinking the reasons why.
Great fun the piece by piece unfolding of this soap opera.
TURKEYBHOY
Never wise to post under different monikers. He’s not the first to prove that.
HH
Mrs ABs 50th .so we re ALL off to Barca for a few days .. Taking myself & 3 of our young ABs to the Nou Camp..
Has anyone any tips? Eg best day( ie quietest ) ..sat or Sunday..
Best time etc…
ALSO
Would wearing the hoops in the nou camp on the tour be welcomed or will we be given the rubbish tour?
I ve the videos to prove Celtic v Barca was special….
HH
Turkeybhoy,
You’d rather read them articles than anyone’s opinion on world politics/economics, fair enough why can’t you do that without greeting about it ?
All I’m saying is they are read by most and there is usually very little debate or comment about them because most of us agree with them. Obviously you are happy with the state of the planet as you appear to object to anyone discussing the subject on what is traditionally an open forum, these subjects have been discussed on this forum long long before you became an addition and you probably knew that when you became a lurker before you joined in, so, was your reason for joining to stifle such discussions ?
Paul 67,
I wonder how many of Scotland’s 8 percent have Sky to specifically watch English football.?
We as in Scottish football need radical change to even begin to compete .eg summer football.
HH.
I am told that Saidy Janko from Man Utd will be signing very soon
HH
Catman
Catman,
Loan or permanent ?
Catman
Who he?
CATMAN
Another right-back?
Blinkin flip,we’ve got hunnersathem.
Afternoon bhoys! What Phil Mac didn’t say was if Ashley had agreed to sit on his rights or to give king the other 5m… I hope there’s a complete breakdown as I don’t fancy Ashley being associated with them long term.
BMCUW,
You can’t have too many, remember WGS having 5 and still having to play someone out of place because they were all broke.
CANAMALAR
Was that Darren O’Dea against the huns? Poor fella never really recovered from that.
IIRC,that was the McCurry Bookatimathon Day.
He is a Swiss u19 right wing back
I believe it is a loan deal initially
HH
jimbob71 is praying with wee Oscar
Top Mhan:))))
catman
Thank you.
Catman 13:14:
19 years of age and a Right-back/Right-Winger, interesting.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Wonder what the implications are for Mattews, Lustig, Fisher ?
Bawsman 13.03
I think this from yesterday covers it on Res12.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=17539&cpage=6#comment-2611990
Saidy Janko is a good name
That’s all I can say about him
Are there not more implications for whoever plays at fullback for our U-19s?
So most of us agree it’s a Sky boycott is well overdue. Hopefully ALL of us will now follow the process laid out here.
What I can’t understand is why we don’t ALL have the same go at the Daily Record. Its done nothing other than rubbish our club for years. From the “Thugs and Thieves” headline lies, to every good player we have is leaving and we’re out priced on bidding for everyone else we’re linked with. Yet still I see supporters reading this rag. Paying the money that keeps it going. Liverpool got the Sun to rethink- we can stop the Records nonsense.
DON’T EVER BUY IT AGAIN AND EDUCATE ANY CELT THAT DOES.
Posed this question yesterday? May have missed reply as I’m in a five hour time warp in the U.S. just now.
If one was to purchase an Android box or Amazon TV thingy and have Kodi installed, how would one go about recording stuff?
rw76,
Only a tiny minority of Celtic supporters use t’interweb, there’s your problem right there.
Lunch time- way down south .
Barry McGuire – on the last thread .
Horrible memories ( late 70s Glasgow ) of being dragged ( think my old man must have been washing his hair / cutting his toe nails that night ) by my Musical loving mother to a born again Christian musical called -The Witness . . Born again Barry McGuire played Peter …
Absolute pap —
Supersutton
One would maybe visit a page like this
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=record%20with%20amazon%20tv&sm=3
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