When will the BBC announce their Championship televised fixtures ?

Covered End

I'm waiting to book up some more aways. Last season they showed a number of games on a Saturday at 17.20 & I think other times.
Have they still got a contract for this season ? Does anyone know if they have, when they will announce what games they are showing ?

Nicholas

Found this not sure if anything has changed since then.

http://tvsportsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/sky-clinch-exclusive-live-football.html


Sky Sports has secured exclusive live rights to screen npower Football League, Carling Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy games for another three years.
The deal - which starts the season after next in 2012 - will see the BBC lose its rights to ten live Championship games and the Carling Cup final and one of the semis.
It's not clear yet whether the BBC will still keep its deal for highlights - which is screens through The Football League Show - as the league says negotiations are on-going for a highlights deal with free-to-air broadcasters.
The new arrangements with Sky - which is worth £195million - will see more live Football League games shown on the network than ever before - including ten live matches a season on a Thursday night

The breakdown of the agreement will see Sky show:
> 75 live games from across all three Football League divisions (up from the current 65).
> All play-off games - including the finals - from all three divisions.
> 15 live Carling Cup games including both semis and the final exclusively live on Sky.
> The Johnstone's Paint Trophy final, and at least two matches live from previous rounds.

Live and highlights arrangements for next season will remain the same with the new deal starting from the 2012-2013 season.

The BBC has confirmed it did not make a "competitive bid" for the live rights.


A spokesman said: "Given the current financial climate and the internal strategic review being carried out through Delivering Quality First, we were not in a position to be able to make a competitive bid for the Football League live TV broadcast rights.
"We look forward to continuing our coverage of the Football League to the end of the 2011-2012 season when our contract expires."
ESPN had also been reported to have been interested in securing some live Football League rights.

csr_cafc

From that it looks like there wont be anything live on the bbc just the FLS which sounds familiar from what they said at the time.

eaststandmike

It looks as if Sky has tightened its grip even more........worrying

Elthamaddick

looks like the bbc's games from last season will now be thursday nights on sky

sralan

Oh, so the only sport available on BBC is the things nobody else is interested in covering, such as Golf, Bowls, Snooker and the World Matchplay wall painting championships.
Good to know the licence payers money is being spent wisely.

Covered End

Thanks Nick.

Super_horns

Oh, so the only sport available on BBC is the things nobody else is interested in covering, such as Golf, Bowls, Snooker and the World Matchplay wall painting championships.
Good to know the licence payers money is being spent wisely.

Well there are the summer events but yes good point.

They listen to the non-sports fans who complain that Eastenders or something gets moved more I think.