Sports Television Broadcasting Rights

[Agger 1,662]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Damn, some Swedish company (Nordic Entertainment Group) has come into the Dutch TV rights market and grabbed the rights for darts, F1 and the Bundesliga starting next year...which apparently will be shown on Viaplay or something. Doesn't sound like that will be a regular thing watchable on TV without messing around with streaming from another device to the TV  

 

Even worse, somehow it seems those idiots are going to ask for €45....per month. Good luck getting a foothold in the market, especially considering F1TV will remain available and is probably much cheaper (and if Viaplay doesn't offer regular TV broadcasts, but only streaming nonsense, F1TV offers exactly the same).

You can expect it to just be the beginning. In Denmark they have most major football tournaments (except La Liga and Europa League), all American sports, golf, F1 and certainly a lot of other sports that I've forgotten. The price was about €45 but they raised it lately to 60. We do however have regular TV channels (if it wasn't for Ligue 1, I would have thrown away my subscription and moved back to flow-tv)

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 minutes ago, Agger said:

You can expect it to just be the beginning. In Denmark they have most major football tournaments (except La Liga and Europa League), all American sports, golf, F1 and certainly a lot of other sports that I've forgotten. The price was about €45 but they raised it lately to 60. We do however have regular TV channels (if it wasn't for Ligue 1, I would have thrown away my subscription and moved back to flow-tv)

€60, what the hell  

 

Does that include movies and series and all kinds of other things?

[Agger 1,662]

23 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

€60, what the hell  

 

Does that include movies and series and all kinds of other things?

yup

[heywoodu 15,135]

10 minutes ago, Agger said:

yup

Good, hopefully they'll have an offer without that here, we've got TV and Netflix and such already.There's no way a significant amount of people here are going to pay 600-700 euro per year just to watch F1 (which is what most here are interested in).

[Agger 1,662]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Good, hopefully they'll have an offer without that here, we've got TV and Netflix and such already.There's no way a significant amount of people here are going to pay 600-700 euro per year just to watch F1 (which is what most here are interested in).

Don't expect that. They removed that in Sweden at the same time as they raised the prise and it hasn't been possible in Denmark while I've had it (in the beginning you could pick one without the movies but that was only about €4 different)

[heywoodu 15,135]

6 minutes ago, Agger said:

Don't expect that. They removed that in Sweden at the same time as they raised the prise and it hasn't been possible in Denmark while I've had it (in the beginning you could pick one without the movies but that was only about €4 different)

Well, F1TV for 65 euro (per year!) seems pretty attractive then, assuming that'll remain available. This Viaplay thing sounds like a huge bubble that is just waiting to burst with those prices, that's just going to end up costing them shitloads of money.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Oh well, they would not be the first foreign party to very grossly underestimate the rather difficult TV market here. I'd give it less than three years.

[Monzanator 4,499]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Damn, some Swedish company (Nordic Entertainment Group) has come into the Dutch TV rights market and grabbed the rights for darts, F1 and the Bundesliga starting next year...which apparently will be shown on Viaplay or something. Doesn't sound like that will be a regular thing watchable on TV without messing around with streaming from another device to the TV  

 

Even worse, somehow it seems those idiots are going to ask for €45....per month. Good luck getting a foothold in the market, especially considering F1TV will remain available and is probably much cheaper (and if Viaplay doesn't offer regular TV broadcasts, but only streaming nonsense, F1TV offers exactly the same).

 

Same thing in Poland - F1 and Bundesliga will be on NEG from 2022. They announced this two weeks ago already.

[Vektor 3,326]

The discussion about the TV rights got me thinking: is there a site that lists which channels/companies have the most important sport broadcast rights per countries? Like, a summary of how wide the "sport TV empire" of some these companies is in Europe.

 

In Hungary these are current sports channels, their right and owners:

 

M4 Sport (MTVA, the Hungarian national public TV)

All the national championships (including the most important: football), F1, Olympics, the matches of all the national teams (including the most important: football), World and European championships of most Olympic sports (including the most important, you guessed it, football), UEFA Champions League

 

Sport 1 / Sport 2 (AMC Networks) The OG sports channel in Hungary, started in 2000.

UEFA Europa League, Bundesliga (they will lose it this year), Handball Champions League, MLB, NBA, darts, UFC

 

Eurosport 1 / Eurosport 2 (Discovery)

Same as in other countries.

 

Digi Sport 1 / Digi Sport 2 / Digi Sport 3 (4iG, originally owned by a Hungarian subsidiary of Digi)

UEFA Europa League, 50% of Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1, they can potentially lose the latter two this year

 

Spíler 1 / Spíler 2 (TV2)

50% of Premier League, UEFA Champions League, La Liga

 

Aréna4 (Network4)

Bundesliga (starting this year), NHL, NFL, IndyCar, Nascar, MotoGP

 

That's it, 11 Hungarian sports channels currently that have any important rights, and +1 during the weekends with M4 Sport+. There was a time when regular TV channels had some of the most watched events, but those days are over. The public channel, M4 Sport, has a tight grip on anything that large number of Hungarians care about thanks to the support of Orbán. Before Orbán the Hungarian national TV had far less power on the market, they even lost the FIFA World Cup in 2006, but that quickly changed after the 2010 election.