'Premflix'

[Goat]

The Premier League makes £3.1bn a year from TV rights, of which £1.4bn comes from foreign buyers. However, launching its own streaming service in some territories could lead to substantial rises in revenue. In Singapore, Singtel pays £70m a season to the Premier League, yet it makes £175m a year from subscribers who pay around £35 a month for live games. If the Premier League kept these TV rights for itself it could potentially make another £100m in Singapore alone.

The chances of a “Premflix” channel happening in England, where Sky Sports has around six million subscribers and BT Sport close to two million, are slim. But Masters suggested a two-tiered system – with some countries watching games shown by existing TV broadcasters and others streamed directly by the Premier League – was inevitable. “I’m not saying it will happen in the next cycle or when it will happen but eventually the Premier League will move to a mix of direct consumer and media rights sales,” he said. “It is impossible to say when that will be.”

Masters was also bullish about the Premier League maintaining its global popularity despite a recent fall in the value of domestic TV rights. On Thursday, the Premier League announced a massive £2bn deal with NENT for the rights for Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland from 2022-28 – an increase of more than 20% a year – and Masters insisted the Premier League was in robust health. “We have every reason to be optimistic about the future of sports rights. I don’t think the bubble has burst because our business is effectively hedged between domestic performance and international performance.”

Premier League’s new chief says Netflix-style overseas service is on cards

The Premier League will eventually sell matches to the overseas audience on a Netflix-style platform, according to its new chief executive, Richard Masters

www.theguardian.com

As I said, it wont happen.

 

[Connor]

As I said, it wont happen.

If you survive the next five years, the vaults will be unkind

 

[Goat]

If you survive the next five years, the vaults will be unkind

As I said C, the figures dont add up currently.

 

[chrismpw]

The idiots who created the market for sky, and thus destroyed football as a sport, will soon find themselves having to subscribe to several suppliers to watch the same footie they had with sky and be milked for cash by the already billionaire media moguls. Poetic justice.

The solution is to just lose interest.

 

[havrey0123]

The Premier League are planning their own subscription service, cutting out Sky, BT etc. Looking to the overseas' markets at first, but it would seem inevitable in time that it will apply to a domestic audience.

Premier League’s new chief says Netflix-style overseas service is on cards

The Premier League will eventually sell matches to the overseas audience on a Netflix-style platform, according to its new chief executive, Richard Masters

amp.theguardian.com

Seems like a good idea.

Someone should do one but for films and TV series aswell

 

[Dymak]

This is why the big British teams will never agree to this European League idea that has been spoken about twice a year for the last 30 years. The big British clubs gain more of an advantage through being in the Prem and the CL, than they would through joining this European League that will never happen.

 

[havrey0123]

This is why the big British teams will never agree to this European League idea that has been spoken about twice a year for the last 30 years. The big British clubs gain more of an advantage through being in the Prem and the CL, than they would through joining this European League that will never happen.

Not really if they scrapped the cl and just had a European league with games staggered so you play one game a week it would be a money maker.

The top 6 know this which is why they asked the premier League for a higher share of the money,

 

[Dymak]

Not really if they scrapped the cl and just had a European league with games staggered so you play one game a week it would be a money maker.

The top 6 know this which is why they asked the premier League for a higher share of the money,

Who are the top 6?

The 20 premier league clubs have so far refused any change to how the money is shared and they will continue to do so. British clubs refused the idea of the Euro league as recently as last year. Getting rid of the CL as a cup competition and changing it into a league competition would simply make it more boring imo, which is probably another reason why the idea was rejected yet again last year.

 

[Brennan]

The numbers do add up.

I’ve seen most people doing rudimentary ‘Subscribers x monthly fee vs current rights’ calculations. They ignore two big things.

1) Ad revenue
2) Data

There’s no reason why a PL live streaming service couldn’t show ads before and after matches and at half time. I don’t believe anybody watching Sky cares about adverts and nobody would care on a live streaming service either.

Data from subscribers is extremely valuable and is something which Sky and BT currently get and the PL would receive instead should they go direct to consumers with their own service.

Those two things added to a £20 per month subscription would smash the current TV rights deal.

 

[degsy]

I'm just curious how they will manage to make an absolute balls up of it.

Do the opposite of whatever ETV does, then they won't balls it up.

 

[Yid4life]

If it meant there was a designated Spurs channel where i didn't have to see or hear Liverpool or Woolwich 'experts' i would be all for it.

 

[summerisle]

This is an interesting take on the future of the premier league.

Premflix will spell the end of the Premier League... - Football365

Premflix is where the Premier League is heading. But it will lead to its own end, says Johnny.

www.football365.com

 

[Goat]

The numbers do add up.

I’ve seen most people doing rudimentary ‘Subscribers x monthly fee vs current rights’ calculations. They ignore two big things.

1) Ad revenue
2) Data

There’s no reason why a PL live streaming service couldn’t show ads before and after matches and at half time. I don’t believe anybody watching Sky cares about adverts and nobody would care on a live streaming service either.

Data from subscribers is extremely valuable and is something which Sky and BT currently get and the PL would receive instead should they go direct to consumers with their own service.

Those two things added to a £20 per month subscription would smash the current TV rights deal.

Chatting wham biscuits sadly mate.

Almost certain you have no grasp of the figures involved here.

 

[Minimeister]

At 3pm on a Saturday the channel is decoded like what porn used to be.

 

[Connor]

Ideal time to test it out