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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Tontine Tim
Cap doffed to your Mrs
Oh
And your goodself. :-)))
Is that the Paul Young who presented a teatime show on STV in the early sixties and actually the interviewed the Beatles on his show. He had a fellow presenter Paula and am sure they did a cover version of ‘Hey Paula’ by Paul and Paula.
thomthethim for Oscar OK
18:58 on 24 June, 2015
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Is that the same Sheila Duffy who used to read out the news on the radio?
HH
Tontine Tim
Happy anniversary to Mrs. TT and your good self!
HH
TC45
Have I missed something?
When everybody starts using these devices to view on the cheap just who is going to pay the clubs to televise games that no one is apparently paying to see?
Cowiebhoy
Thanks. There’s work going on in the background of both sites at the moment. CQN crashed the other day as you will recall. The new merged site – with no pop ups etc – will be with you very soon. It has been a huge job!
On http://www.cqnmagazine.com today there are some pretty tasty features. Worth checking out folks, especially the summer 2012 feature on the club that died.
…….oot to e-tims to read about the Celtic.
King-Kojo-Arla.
YNWA.
WC
My freezing issues appear to have disappeared. :-) Not before friggin time. Lol. The battery on my iPad disnae know wit’s up wi’ it. Keep up the good work. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
KevJungle
19:16 on
24 June, 2015
thomthethim for Oscar OK
18:58 on 24 June, 2015
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Is that the same Sheila Duffy who used to read out the news on the radio?
HH
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Possibly, but I remember her from the STV days. Tall, slim girl, with long dark hair.
No great beauty, but attractive in her own way.
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I don’t remember Young interviewing the Beatles.
If it was STV, it could have been Bill Tennant or John Toye, perhaps.
The Beatles first television interview on television was on Granada and was conducted by Irish Broadcasting legend, Gay Byrne.
So we are up in arms when the dead club defrauded the taxpayer – but its ok to defraud the broadcasters and of course the legitimate subscribers by various means.
Let the denials that this is anything but cheating begin.
Gave her a card this morning…she said “what’s that for”, I said “you forgot”, she replied “naw but you usually do”.
I then paid for our upcoming holiday, ‘there’s yer present hen”.
Winning Captains
Going in through that link, and hitting articles, also crashing bhud, on ipad
Hail Hail
Timbhoy3
Boyata permanent not loan signing.
Paul Young interviewed the Beatles in their early days, his fellow presenter was Morag Hood who’s brother Liam Hood was an STV Exec.
I believe the fee for Boyata was £1.5 million.
BBC talking shite as usual.
HH!!
@Hiram_1690: Brilliant @CNN @FoxNews Lol http://t.co/kVWAQwfbHP
Get this up them………….
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Paul67 et al
“No great beauty, but attractive in her own way.”
(thomthetim@19.25)
“You ain’t a beauty but hey you’re alright”
(Bruce Springsteen;Thunder Road)
Spot the difference!
meetthenewbosscsc
Gene
You are of course right to an extent but, certainly in my case, I live in the US and pay for the CTV Premium. I do not need a VPN because I am a legitimate subscriber but I have no problem giving out information on companies that provide VPN access legally.
Like a lot of things, how anyone uses the information or service is up to them….knowledge is freedom :)
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why someone would use a VPN service.
Hail Hail
cowiebhoy
I’m on iPad and all working ok now.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Paul Young aka ‘Shug’ appeared in several episodes of ‘Still game’, wearing huge false lugs.
He could hear a pin drop from 100 paces.
HH!!
Done some research. Paul Young presented a programme called Roundup, with Morag Hood as co presenter. They first interviewed the Beatles in 1963 when they toured Scotland before they became ‘famous’ and interviewed them the next year.
Weefra
It’s the CQN Magazine I am referring too
CQN working well now
Hope you and Mrs are doing well :-))
For the life of me, I can’t imagine Crazyhorse interviewing the Beatles.
Cancelled my Sky Sports after more than 20 years yesterday and explained my reasons were biased reporting and my unwillingness to finance the EPL when Scottish football gets a proportional pittance.
The comments of Hurting Hun McCann on Sky Sports regarding Wilson preferring Sevco to us just reinforces my decision.
I agree with some other posters – the only way to get Sky to take notice is to hit them where it hurts – in the pocket.Then we might get a better financial deal and a bigger say when it comes to movement of fixtures to suit TV schedules.
Bhoycott Sky Sports
I love sky sports
Thing is, I can remember the programme and the Beatles interview. They were scruffy dressed, jeans and leathers.
My friends in Celtic,
I do not currently have Sky sports, however I have BT sports which comes free with Virgin XL package ( At the moment )
I cannot endorse a sky boycott when I know I will go to the pub to watch the Celtic away games.
To do so would be hypocritical imo.
HH.
Orcs thinking the Huns should splash the cash and show Timmy they mean business hahaha
Stupid orcs, it’s still not sinking in there’s no cash to splash :-) HH
Stars
No, haven’t seen the GAA on sky, it really doesn’t float the boat on the tele, I quite enjoyed going to see the games live, I was fortunate when I lived in Kildare, I could easily access a few counties in not many mins, went with a mate who was a mad BIFFO.
HH
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quonno
I wasn’t advocating not paying Celtic, the opposite in fact, I am advocating not paying sky.
Ditch sky, get Celtic TV, get an ISP blocker and watch the games live, Celtic win, you win, sky lose, what could be better.
HH
what is the stars
19:42 on 24 June, 2015
So do I
cowiebhoy
Right, didn’t realise that. Was in CQN magazine yesterday to see if I could get in here, no chance. Lol. We are both well, as can be expected, and just getting on with what little farming we have left. :-)) Our wee tup is growing up to be a fine looking bhoy, pity he’s snipped, good for feck all but mutton. But, at least he’s our tup and he’ll live a full and happy life as our pet. (The mutton bit wiz a joke btw). Hahaha
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
I get BT Sports free with my broadband so will get the European games as Sky lost the contract to BT this season.
But I will be saving enough each month by not paying for Sky Sports to pay for the odd pint to watch the occasional match in the Roseburn Bar, who pay a subscription regardless as most pubs do.
It’s a decline in individual subscribers especially in Scotland that will register with Sky.
Maestro
I use Express VPN, it’s has an app for the IPad and let’s you choose just about any Region in the world. I use it when I travel with work got I player/sky go ect
Brnobhoy
The early sixties, those were the days, Celtic were winning nothing but we still turned up at Celtic park on match days. Then sudden improvement with Kelly Kids, decent results in Europe, then Jock Stein arrived to take us onwards to ultimate glory.
Working class people find a way to save a few bob legally ( owning/using one of those boxes is not illegal )rather than finance Murdoch’s mega corporation that has skewed the beautiful game and works to its own agenda. What’s wrong with that? Screw them very chance you get (legally) because as sure as James Bond gets the girl they would do it to you.
Mahe
Aye they would.
HH
Paul Young played the part of young Geordie in the film Geordie with Bill Travers playing the grown up version.HH
Unfortunately
Broadband in the sticks is shi** mb/sec
So nae choice