Sky to stream midweek English Football League games after new £600m TV deal

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I'm amazed the EFL clubs agreed to this. Surely it's going to be terrible for ticket sales of midweek games?

More empty grounds = Bad for the game as a whole.
 
So Sky will show EVERY championship midweek game as part of an interactive service either on sky itself or on their website? Or am I completely missing the point?
 
I think they can do that because there is no blackout for midweek games, unlike Saturdays at 3pm. They are already competing with Evil Greedy Clubs League games.

This is interesting, and of course it's inevitable. I suspect the PL clubs will be watching this with interest.

What is unclear now is the possible effect on gates.
 
S5Blade said:
So Sky will show EVERY championship midweek game as part of an interactive service either on sky itself or on their website? Or am I completely missing the point?
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I thought it meant it could be shown on the club's own website (possibly!) (????)

"All EFL clubs will be able to stream midweek league games via their websites if Sky are not broadcasting it live."
 
madeinsheffield said:
No doubt you'll have to have Sky Sports first then "for just an additional £?? per month"
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Wonder if the EFL will follow the Prem and go tthe high court to try and block devices picking up illegal streams. I think not as they do not have the same level of investment from Sky to protect.
 
Glyn Hodges left foot said:
I would strongly urge fellow blades to pay for the ifollow stream and not the sky sports stream. Why give sky your money when the club could have it all ? The efl have realised that they are fighting a losing battle on streams so may aswell get a piece of the pie.
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Why give it to anyone just stream it for free using a Kodi device.
 

ghandi said:
Wonder if the EFL will follow the Prem and go tthe high court to try and block devices picking up illegal streams. I think not as they do not have the same level of investment from Sky to protect.
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Ignorance is profit.
 
Glyn Hodges left foot said:
I would strongly urge fellow blades to pay for the ifollow stream and not the sky sports stream. Why give sky your money when the club could have it all ? The efl have realised that they are fighting a losing battle on streams so may aswell get a piece of the pie.
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do the Blades get the money directly?

Id of thought it would be like the other FLI projects i.e. Ifollow pay FLI 100K+ a year (probably add a few zeros on to that figure) and get to stream all the games, each club gets a small share of the money but ifollow get the majority of subscription money plus advert fees.

I would have thought thats exactly how the sky deal works too only sky can afford to pay a bigger up front fee so we could actually get more money from Sky than ifollow
 
I'm assuming this money will flow to the clubs and some will go to grass roots football? Thought not.
 
Glyn Hodges left foot said:
I would strongly urge fellow blades to pay for the ifollow stream and not the sky sports stream. Why give sky your money when the club could have it all ? The efl have realised that they are fighting a losing battle on streams so may aswell get a piece of the pie.
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I sincerely hope that we don't end up losing iFollow in favour of sky... unless iFollow is actually a Sky subsidiary
 
I give this a year before they get rid of it, will be awful for midweek attendances, particularly away followings.
 
Don't worry I'll still be following a away matches via Twitter via s24su.......will it be a live feed from Sky tho or live from the ground?
 

JL94x4 said:
Not sure how the Sky thing will work, they only have 8 channels, EFL has around 80 games on a midweek night.
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80 EFL games on a midweek night? There's only 72 Football League clubs and half of them are away, so 36 games maximum on any one day, but this only applies to the Championship which brings it down to 12.

The BBC article is poorly written as it implies that Sky has the streaming rights and clubs can only have what Sky don't show live, the proper EFL story is clearer.
  • Sky get 16 Tuesday and Wednesday Championship games for TV, all other midweek games can be streamed live by clubs on iFollow (and Sky are also allowed to stream them).
  • Checkatrade Trophy can be streamed by clubs that are in that (attendances will plummet!)
  • Theoretically clubs would be able to move games from Saturday 3pm so they could stream them.

https://www.efl.com/news/2017/september/efl-agree-new-five-season-broadcasting-deal-with-sky-sports/
 
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