Is that true, 7k a year to watch normal sky sports channels in Pubs

Thats crazy.

 

At same time its only going to take 2 or 3 massive games to recoup that behind the bar at a medium-large venue.

Well, would be if likes of Walkabout employed more than three staff on a home match day...Losing money all the time while the clock ticks down to kick off.

£7,000 however is a lot for a village pub.

 

Two seasons ago the Outpost had the Sky demand posted up on the wall. They wanted over £12K for the coming season. Based on population in area and size of car park at the pub.

 

walkabout will makes thousands a match...hope this helps

 

Flipping eckers, wonder what walkabout pay then?

 

Think it's different for types of pubs etc

But yeah, the one I work at was paying something in the region of £600 per month, which works out at £7200 PA.

So they knocked it on the head. It is a bit scandalous, especially when nobody extra was really coming into the pub to watch the football and the only time the pub got busy for a match was when Barnsley were away, England in a World Cup/Euro, or on odd occasion, Leeds and Liverpool pulled a few in.

Obviously couldn't justify paying the £600 a month.

 

£135 per week some small pubs pay that for a singer to do 2 X 1 hour spots on a Saturday night.

 

They'd make a lot more if they could be bothered to pay another £20 per person for bar staff between 12-3.

 

See sky used some forward thinking there. A grand a month for a pub next to the town centre. . . Pub near me got told they were doubling the tariff for the year. It got cancelled there and then. Took sky a month before they changed their minds.

 

What a pub pays for SKY is based on the pub's Ratable Value (bigger pubs in prime locations have much higher RV's than small pubs in backstreet / rural locations).

For example

Walkabout, Barnsley RV is £173,000 and Sky is therefore £36k per year

George & Dragon, Summer Lane RV is £9,800 and Sky is therefore £7k per year

£7k per year would be a fair estimate of an average across the country, as there are many more pubs like the G&D than Walkabouts etc. Some pubs & clubs will be paying less than £2k per year.

Find pub RV's here by entering it's postcode here http://www.2010.voa.gov.uk/rli/
and then
Calculate SKY cost here by entering RV here http://business.sky.com/Calculator/

this works for any pub in UK

 

36k a year, ouch

How much do they make on a 3 pound pint of Fosters Border do you think?

 

£3 a pint minus 20% VAT for HMRC equals £2.40 net takings per pint

They will be paying approx 75p a pint at cost

so Gross Profit is approx £1.65 or 69% of turnover

of this 69% the following costs need to be taken into account

Wages, Door Staff, Rent, Rates, Heat & Light, Water, Sky, Entertainment, Cleaning, PRS/PPL licences, Other Licences, Refuse, Crockery, Glassware, Beer Gas, Repairs & renewals, Stocktaking, Bank charges, marketing & advertising, printing & postage, phones & internet, Health & Safety compliance, statutory testing, training costs, head office costs, depreciation.

It's not a licence to print money.

 

So say they make 50p a pint they would have to sell 72,000 pints

 

Yes, as good an assumption as any, although the 50p per pint profit is just a guess, could be much less, unlikely to be a great deal more.