Its because they are only allowed to show teams a certain number of times
Glad my sky subscription ends in a couple of weeks. I really donāt understand football broadcasting in this country.
Each weekend as many as six Premier League matches will be moved to be shown on Sky Sports or BT Sport. The main kick-off times for TV matches are 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays, 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Sundays, and 8 p.m. on Mondays. For up to 10 matches each season, there is also a Friday night 8 p.m. TV slot. Other matches may also be moved to Sunday, usually because one of the teams involved played in a UEFA Europa Leaguefixture the preceding Thursday. This can sometimes result in midday, 2:15 p.m., and 4:30 p.m. Sunday kick-offs, with the 12:00 game sometimes being broadcast on BT Sport. The 2:15 p.m. game will sometimes kick off at 2 pm.
Sky Sports will almost always show a Saturday 5:30 p.m. as well as a Sunday 4:30 p.m. game live, typically following a Sunday 2 p.m. or 2:15 p.m. kick off as part of a Super Sunday double-bill. Two matches per midweek round will also be picked for live broadcast by BT Sport on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at either 7:30 p.m. or 8:15 pm. The only two exceptional cases are the opening midweek round and Boxing Day where all 10 games from each round are shown by Amazon Prime Video.
BT Sport broadcasts live Premier League games at 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays.
Each broadcaster is subjected to restrictions on the number of times they can show each team live per season to ensure fair distribution of TV revenue. Similarly, each team must appear at least once in each TV slot.
Ahh thatās annoying, well ignore me then.
Itās frustrating because in Denmark every single PL game gets shown every Saturday and Sunday.
We have Viaplay since the start of this season and they show EVERY PL game live as well.
Love the Scandinavians <3
We have to think about poor old Salisbury Town Cristo you heartless bastard do you want them to go bust
A really fair way to distribute TV revenue would just be to fairly distribute TV revenue.
Itās such an awful system.
Every single game should be a pay-per-view option including 3pm kickoffs.
Iād happily pay Ā£5-Ā£10 every weekend to watch Arsenal play but Iāll be damned if I pay Ā£40 a month for sky and Ā£35 a month for BT to watch 2-3 Arsenal games a month.
Cunts.
Itās just so stupid because itās not like Iām going to go and watch my local conference south team play just because I canāt watch Arsenal lol I donāt even know who my local team are ffs
I have Sky sports for Ā£20 through now and Ā£25 for BT on the monthly pass. I like watching football in general tho so donāt mind paying for quality reliable ways to watch it on my tv.
Hopefully this prehistoric blackout rule is axed in the next contract.
Mate, we should be getting a lot more football on Sky for what we pay. They canāt appease us with EFL and WSL.
Sky want to keep their arsenal slots for bigger games. They are capped its not up to them lol
Yeah fair enough, that makes sense.
I literally only ever watch Arsenal so that just doesnāt make financial sense for me. Iāll occasionally watch a game like City vs Liverpool or City vs United etc. if Iāve got nothing else on and theyāre close to each other in the league but otherwise Arsenal are the only team I bother watching live.
By contrast the only streaming service I have is prime for the Amazon bit not the prime bit
Iāll only get Netflix or Disney if there is something l want to watch
I have Spotify but does that count?
Yeah Iāve got Prime, Apple TV, Netflix, Disney and NowTV (for HBO) lol
Weāre like ying and Yang with our tab habits haha
Now TV is something I had until last week haha nothing else l want to watch on it.
Iāll get it back when stuff I watch comes back
Ridiculous.
Even more ridiculous.
The broadcast rules for the EPL for UK viewers is bizarre and pretty antiquated.
I remember many years ago, NFL games used to be āblacked outā locally if the game wasnāt sold out. I wonder if the silly rules for the UK are based upon something (out dated) and similar?
Apparently Gabs is out for tomorrow. Big chance for Eddie to do some damage against the cucumber farmers.
Says who