10 televised games between now and New Year's Day

https://www.skysports.com/watch/football-on-sky/teams/barnsley

That's crept up - it was no more than half a dozen the last time I looked. We're on 3 times in a week at the end of September / start of October.

 

We must be the new Man City we’re on more times than adverts

 

Thanks for sharing, BR.
This looks like Part 1 of the commitment to televise 20 of our matches this season. If so, then more of the same with another 10 to come from 4th January to 3rd May.

 

As most of them are at home, I'll hold off getting a Now TV pass until at least December then. I'm thinking of going to the Wigan Cup game and Huddersfield away anyway. And I only miss Stockport at home, which, I can't watch on Sky either.

I think a lot of midweek games in the 2nd half of the season are away, so I'd probably be more financially prudent to get the pass for then, as its £26.99 pm for 6 months only.

 

It's an absolute ******* disgrace

 

It's going to be interesting to see the price the club set for POTD fans for Tuesday night at the end of October and the Monday night in November. Freezing cold Oakwell or feet up in front of the telly with a couple of cans?

 

The moving of kick-off times and days is a mess, but in terms of the number of televised games I think we have to wait and see how it plays out. After all, weren't pretty much all of our games available to watch online last season, albeit unofficially?

 

Since when did they move night game to quarter to seven kick offs? Not seen that mentioned anywhere.

 

They'll still be available through dodgy fire stick on sky though.

 

Which one(s)? I'm not seeing that.

 

My mistake I was looking at where it said 18:45 but that's when it comes on air on Sky Sports + for an hour of build up.

 

They shouldn't have ever been online either imo. It started to kill attendances and this will just make it worse

 

Ah yes, the obligatory blether.

 

An hour build up sounds like a lot for a League One game. Be interesting to see how they manage that. I wonder if it will be more general league one chat/highlights for the first half an hour.

 

It's gotta be proper coverage with a presenter and pundits. It can't be an hour like ifollow of one camera watching the ground fill up

 

I think they’ll be scraping the pundit barrel with the amount of games they’re having to cover.

 

The only good outcome of this would be if the Sky income means we can cut ticket prices to a reasonable amount and fill the stands.

It won't happen. More likely it'll slowly kill the game as a spectator sport.

 

The club probably won't care about reduced attendances. I'm sure Sky money will compensate for that.
e.g. a reduction of 5000 attendance x 25 quid = 125000.
Anyone know how much Sky pay clubs per game?

 

Sky reckon the new deal is an uplift of 60%.
In the 2023-24 season, League One clubs received £778,500 as a Solidarity Payment and a £920,000 Basic Payment - a total of £1,698,500. In terms of facility fees, for televised matches in League One, home teams would receive £30,000 and away teams got £10,000

Based on that the total should be up to £2.72m

not sure if the 30k also goes up by 60% but if it does that makes it £50k per game.

Doubt we’ll loose 5k cos it’s on the telly though, as those 5k would have been watching on dodgy streams anyway.

 

Will be 13+ because of three FLT games and then possibly League Cup future rounds then less likely FA Cup tv pick