Whilst I get your frustration a season ticket to the ground won’t include the play off games either. So that won’t wash as an argument.
The clubs voted for the Sky cheque. That’s the bottom line.
I know they did. But few, at this level, invested as much as Charlton in a quality streaming service. It was easily Sandgaard's most positive initiative. And we don't know whether Charlton voted for it. Let's not forget that the Sky revenue (£450k pa) was uncannily similar to the amount the club were earning from Charlton TV last season. Now apparently, their stream revenue this season has held up fairly well so they may be in total about £200k up. But this unfortunately will be eaten up by Gassan Ahadme's wages (to put some context on this Sky cheque).
It is stupid. It is bad business, conducted by second-rate people who degrade the word "marketing". We are all either going to head off to Luxembourg or watch a dodgy stream. So who benefits?
And I'm going to ask Gavin Carter about this on May 8.
To play devils advocate…the Sky money is guaranteed for a number of seasons the Charlton TV value is not.
I don’t like it either.
Well, the fact that the Charlton TV revenues this year season have not dropped off anywhere nears as much as feared suggests the market for it is strong. It would be stronger still with the full studio coverage. But as you inferred earlier once the other idiots among the EFL clubs took the Sky shilling we were stuck.
Your point earlier about season tickets not covering the play-offs is not the zinger you think it is. ST holders still have a preferential chance to grab their seats for the play-off game at the Valley. If CTV viewers had been told that it's not covered but we will have the chance to pay £10 match pass, there would be no issue. We don't have that. A significant number of us have no legal and satisfactory way to watch the play-offs.
Just as I have no way to be able to watch overseas games.
As I said I don’t like it but the clubs get certainty of payment and that is compelling when they lose money as a business.
If we fail to get promoted I suspect our combined TV and match day ticket sales will decline next year unless the owners throw money at the squad. Floating support will fall again in absence of success. Yes we will have sold some season tickets of late but the feel good factor won’t last long.
Your point about a season ticket remains weak. You have not been miss sold.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
Whilst I get your frustration a season ticket to the ground won’t include the play off games either. So that won’t wash as an argument.
The clubs voted for the Sky cheque. That’s the bottom line.
I know they did. But few, at this level, invested as much as Charlton in a quality streaming service. It was easily Sandgaard's most positive initiative. And we don't know whether Charlton voted for it. Let's not forget that the Sky revenue (£450k pa) was uncannily similar to the amount the club were earning from Charlton TV last season. Now apparently, their stream revenue this season has held up fairly well so they may be in total about £200k up. But this unfortunately will be eaten up by Gassan Ahadme's wages (to put some context on this Sky cheque).
It is stupid. It is bad business, conducted by second-rate people who degrade the word "marketing". We are all either going to head off to Luxembourg or watch a dodgy stream. So who benefits?
And I'm going to ask Gavin Carter about this on May 8.
To play devils advocate…the Sky money is guaranteed for a number of seasons the Charlton TV value is not.
I don’t like it either.
Well, the fact that the Charlton TV revenues this year season have not dropped off anywhere nears as much as feared suggests the market for it is strong. It would be stronger still with the full studio coverage. But as you inferred earlier once the other idiots among the EFL clubs took the Sky shilling we were stuck.
Your point earlier about season tickets not covering the play-offs is not the zinger you think it is. ST holders still have a preferential chance to grab their seats for the play-off game at the Valley. If CTV viewers had been told that it's not covered but we will have the chance to pay £10 match pass, there would be no issue. We don't have that. A significant number of us have no legal and satisfactory way to watch the play-offs.
Just as I have no way to be able to watch overseas games.
As I said I don’t like it but the clubs get certainty of payment and that is compelling when they lose money as a business.
If we fail to get promoted I suspect our combined TV and match day ticket sales will decline next year unless the owners throw money at the squad. Floating support will fall again in absence of success. Yes we will have sold some season tickets of late but the feel good factor won’t last long.
Your point about a season ticket remains weak. You have not been miss sold.
But I get your frustration.
But you do. You can get a VPN. To be fair the one of the Opera Browser works so all you need to do is downlaod that.
Whilst I get your frustration a season ticket to the ground won’t include the play off games either. So that won’t wash as an argument.
The clubs voted for the Sky cheque. That’s the bottom line.
I know they did. But few, at this level, invested as much as Charlton in a quality streaming service. It was easily Sandgaard's most positive initiative. And we don't know whether Charlton voted for it. Let's not forget that the Sky revenue (£450k pa) was uncannily similar to the amount the club were earning from Charlton TV last season. Now apparently, their stream revenue this season has held up fairly well so they may be in total about £200k up. But this unfortunately will be eaten up by Gassan Ahadme's wages (to put some context on this Sky cheque).
It is stupid. It is bad business, conducted by second-rate people who degrade the word "marketing". We are all either going to head off to Luxembourg or watch a dodgy stream. So who benefits?
And I'm going to ask Gavin Carter about this on May 8.
To play devils advocate…the Sky money is guaranteed for a number of seasons the Charlton TV value is not.
I don’t like it either.
Well, the fact that the Charlton TV revenues this year season have not dropped off anywhere nears as much as feared suggests the market for it is strong. It would be stronger still with the full studio coverage. But as you inferred earlier once the other idiots among the EFL clubs took the Sky shilling we were stuck.
Your point earlier about season tickets not covering the play-offs is not the zinger you think it is. ST holders still have a preferential chance to grab their seats for the play-off game at the Valley. If CTV viewers had been told that it's not covered but we will have the chance to pay £10 match pass, there would be no issue. We don't have that. A significant number of us have no legal and satisfactory way to watch the play-offs.
Just as I have no way to be able to watch overseas games.
As I said I don’t like it but the clubs get certainty of payment and that is compelling when they lose money as a business.
If we fail to get promoted I suspect our combined TV and match day ticket sales will decline next year unless the owners throw money at the squad. Floating support will fall again in absence of success. Yes we will have sold some season tickets of late but the feel good factor won’t last long.
Your point about a season ticket remains weak. You have not been miss sold.
But I get your frustration.
But you do. You can get a VPN. To be fair the one of the Opera Browser works so all you need to do is downlaod that.
Yes there is a ‘back door’ But @Pragueaddick was discussing access in a legitimate way.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course they are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Oh so now you've put your cards on the table, haven't you? Call yourself a supporter?
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course rhey are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
Almost every week it happens. It doesn’t mean someone’s paid but potentially that they’ve hacked into the system. It will happen for every team in the EFL
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course rhey are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
Almost every week it happens. It doesn’t mean someone’s paid but potentially that they’ve hacked into the system. It will happen for every team in the EFL
OK, if you say so. But my point is, how much revenue do you estimate Sky lose as a result of a Charlton stream being illegally uploaded? Obviously I don't expect a figure but you'll be hard pressed to convince me it's not a pittance
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course rhey are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
Almost every week it happens. It doesn’t mean someone’s paid but potentially that they’ve hacked into the system. It will happen for every team in the EFL
OK, if you say so. But my point is, how much revenue do you estimate Sky lose as a result of a Charlton stream being illegally uploaded? Obviously I don't expect a figure but you'll be hard pressed to convince me it's not a pittance
Funnily enough I was just sending you a PM about all of this. My guess is that the money would be hard to quantify, people will mainly pirate for PL games and CAFC games are a byproduct
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Oh so now you've put your cards on the table, haven't you? Call yourself a supporter?
I realise you are joking of course but I’m correcting your original argument that the in house income won’t be impacted by Sky. It is.
To repeat id rather the deal didn’t exist but whilst the football pyramid is paying ridiculous salaries to players it won’t change until consumers reign in their TV spend.
Football has created its own monster and despite me thinking the bubble must burst it appears it won’t.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Oh so now you've put your cards on the table, haven't you? Call yourself a supporter?
I realise you are joking of course but I’m correcting your original argument that the in house income won’t be impacted by Sky. It is.
To repeat id rather the deal didn’t exist but whilst the football pyramid is paying ridiculous salaries to players it won’t change until consumers reign in their TV spend.
Football has created its own monster and despite me thinking the bubble must burst it appears it won’t.
Of course the revenue from Charlton TV is affected by Sky. That's why they cancelled the studio discussion. I expected worse, that they would throw in the towel completely. In fact Methven told us that the streaming revenue held up better than expected. The amount they get from Sky, and the amount they took in last year from streaming is almost identical around the £450k level. This season I think Methven said they still expect £250k from CTV. Which means they make more in total from "broadcast" thanks to Sky, but have pissed off some of their more loyal, er, customers.
My issue is about how much Sky would lose if they allowed the private streaming to just carry on alongside them. Very little, I'd assert. And as for the international rights, what a joke. I have never for example met a single Czech football fan who said they'd watched a live English game from lower than FAPL level on TV. And at the same time how many Charlton fans are permanent resident in Prague. I know of one other. One. (He's an occasional Lifer). Yet because Nova Sport are, supposedly, going to show the play-off games, I can't watch CTV? It's ridiculous.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Oh so now you've put your cards on the table, haven't you? Call yourself a supporter?
I realise you are joking of course but I’m correcting your original argument that the in house income won’t be impacted by Sky. It is.
To repeat id rather the deal didn’t exist but whilst the football pyramid is paying ridiculous salaries to players it won’t change until consumers reign in their TV spend.
Football has created its own monster and despite me thinking the bubble must burst it appears it won’t.
Of course the revenue from Charlton TV is affected by Sky. That's why they cancelled the studio discussion. I expected worse, that they would throw in the towel completely. In fact Methven told us that the streaming revenue held up better than expected. The amount they get from Sky, and the amount they took in last year from streaming is almost identical around the £450k level. This season I think Methven said they still expect £250k from CTV. Which means they make more in total from "broadcast" thanks to Sky, but have pissed off some of their more loyal, er, customers.
My issue is about how much Sky would lose if they allowed the private streaming to just carry on alongside them. Very little, I'd assert. And as for the international rights, what a joke. I have never for example met a single Czech football fan who said they'd watched a live English game from lower than FAPL level on TV. And at the same time how many Charlton fans are permanent resident in Prague. I know of one other. One. (He's an occasional Lifer). Yet because Nova Sport are, supposedly, going to show the play-off games, I can't watch CTV? It's ridiculous.
I get your point but I am an example of where Sky would lose some income at times.
I would only buy Sky if we were on more than twice in a month. Otherwise I’d pay Charlton only.
I see why they restrict the individual club broadcasts even if the sums may be small but they rely on customer inertia to not cancel their subscription once signed up.
To get back on topic can you @PragueAddick get a Now TV subscription fir a month using a VPN or is their broadcast able to detect that?
Ok, thanks for offering me a plan B (or as it happens in my case, Plan C)
It looks like it will work for me, but will not work for the vast majority of International Addicks.
- Without a VPN, NowTV detected that I am not in the right country for their services.
- I switched on VPN to UK, and that satisfied NowTV.
- however the next step is to set up an account for which a UK debit/credit card, with a link to a UK address, is required. Fortunately I have that. Most of the International Addicks in the WA group don't. NowTV operates in Germany, but Sky has its own separate channels there.
- I've set up an account. A monthly membership will cost me £35.
- there remains a small danger, I suppose, that Sky may use its own geo-blocking on top of NowTVs, but probably not. I assume NowTV and Sky are business partners.
So it appears to be a plan. I do have a better one, whereby my mate's son will renew his Viaplay sub, and give me access. Viaplay will deffo show it, and with a rather vanilla English commentary, but probably preferably to the inanity of Sky.
But neither of these options are open to most International Addicks. So I will continue to lobby for change to this situation both in the short and long term. For example, thanks to an article in The Athletic, I know that the streams come from a central EFL studio near to but separate to Sky's in Osterley. That's where they do the geo-blocking. It has happened here in Czechia that the Czech holder of the EFL rights did not actually take up the option of showing some obscure Charlton game that Sky had picked. (Well, colour me gob-smacked). But the EFL geo-blocked me anyway!!!. Clearly the lazy fuckers just automatically geo-block all countries with a rights agreement, regardless of whether the rights holder actually shows the game. The twats at Pitch International should be prevailed upon to provide some service for their fee, and check round the rights holders to confirm whether or not they are broadcasting, so that the EFL only geo-block those countries. A side-benefit would be that if it were confirmed that the Czech broadcaster really will show the games, then I'd potentially sign up with them (depending on the cancellation terms). Isn't that the supposed purpose of the international deal?Actually since there is some time, I'll go after Pitch myself and ask them to do it. (and why not, when they evade).
You see what this is, I hope? A shoddy deal put together by shoddy people with contempt for the "core customer".
To get back on topic can you @PragueAddick get a Now TV subscription fir a month using a VPN or is their broadcast able to detect that?
Ok, thanks for offering me a plan B (or as it happens in my case, Plan C)
It looks like it will work for me, but will not work for the vast majority of International Addicks.
- Without a VPN, NowTV detected that I am not in the right country for their services.
- I switched on VPN to UK, and that satisfied NowTV.
- however the next step is to set up an account for which a UK debit/credit card, with a link to a UK address, is required. Fortunately I have that. Most of the International Addicks in the WA group don't. NowTV operates in Germany, but Sky has its own separate channels there.
- I've set up an account. A monthly membership will cost me £35.
- there remains a small danger, I suppose, that Sky may use its own geo-blocking on top of NowTVs, but probably not. I assume NowTV and Sky are business partners.
So it appears to be a plan. I do have a better one, whereby my mate's son will renew his Viaplay sub, and give me access. Viaplay will deffo show it, and with a rather vanilla English commentary, but probably preferably to the inanity of Sky.
But neither of these options are open to most International Addicks. So I will continue to lobby for change to this situation both in the short and long term. For example, thanks to an article in The Athletic, I know that the streams come from a central EFL studio near to but separate to Sky's in Osterley. That's where they do the geo-blocking. It has happened here in Czechia that the Czech holder of the EFL rights did not actually take up the option of showing some obscure Charlton game that Sky had picked. (Well, colour me gob-smacked). But the EFL geo-blocked me anyway!!!. Clearly the lazy fuckers just automatically geo-block all countries with a rights agreement, regardless of whether the rights holder actually shows the game. The twats at Pitch International should be prevailed upon to provide some service for their fee, and check round the rights holders to confirm whether or not they are broadcasting, so that the EFL only geo-block those countries. A side-benefit would be that if it were confirmed that the Czech broadcaster really will show the games, then I'd potentially sign up with them (depending on the cancellation terms). Isn't that the supposed purpose of the international deal?Actually since there is some time, I'll go after Pitch myself and ask them to do it. (and why not, when they evade).
You see what this is, I hope? A shoddy deal put together by shoddy people with contempt for the "core customer".
I get it I do. But the clubs voted for it.
I’m gutted I can’t get 3pm fixtures in the UK too. The black out is now beyond its sell by date in reality. .
Clubs need to reduce match day prices as well in my opinion.
Can’t you just VPN to Luxembourg for CTV? Or are we presuming CTV won’t offer anything visual at all?
That is the current big unknown. It will be on my list to find out.
It's just a hunch but I believe overall Gavin Carter will be sympathetic about this, so I'll prepare something in advance for the May 8 CAST meeting with him, so that he has a chance to look into it and give some clarity on the night.
I know some regular season games have been blacked out in the US because they were shown locally, but yesterdays game was on CTV despite it also being on CBS/Paramount+.
I’m going to ask Gavin Carter about it on May 8. Not least because he was always quite positive about Sandgaard, and probably used CTV extensively.
I fully understand that there isnt much he can do in the short term, but we as a club should lead the way in getting private club streams separated from overall rights deals. Nobody pirates the private streams. Pick up a pirated Charlton stream, it will be from Bein or Croatia or somewhere. I would love someone from Sky to tell me what % of viewers they would lose if Charlton TV were allowed to stream to a domestic audience. Followed by the total audience numbers. Square root of fuck all, is my guess.
I suppose the truth is that Sky know club private streams are the inevitable future and are just milking it while they can, and at the same time trying to suppress the success of the private streams. Well, they would. So the focus should be on the sales agency with its 15 year relationship with the EFL.
I have subscribed to sky via now TV just for the last 2 months at £20 per month (offer price but not unique to me) which has given access to multiple Charlton games given the non 3pm kick offs. Far better value than the in house offering at this time of the season.
Non subscription / on demand means you can more easily pick and choose now.
Oh so now you've put your cards on the table, haven't you? Call yourself a supporter?
I realise you are joking of course but I’m correcting your original argument that the in house income won’t be impacted by Sky. It is.
To repeat id rather the deal didn’t exist but whilst the football pyramid is paying ridiculous salaries to players it won’t change until consumers reign in their TV spend.
Football has created its own monster and despite me thinking the bubble must burst it appears it won’t.
). Yet because Nova Sport are, supposedly, going to show the play-off games, I can't watch CTV? It's ridiculous.
Supposedly’s putting it lightly.
I’ve checked it out in France before. They have the rights but don’t show it becausethey probably never wanted the rights in the first place. I’ve asked about it and they can’t believe that anyone would want to watch 3rd division English football. It’s that absurdly simple.
I’m going to have to dig out the TP link box I bought for the play offs 6 years ago, make a monthly subscription and then buy Now TV. I hope it still works - I gave it up thanks to the over maligned Thomas Sandgaard.
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course rhey are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
Almost every week it happens. It doesn’t mean someone’s paid but potentially that they’ve hacked into the system. It will happen for every team in the EFL
OK, if you say so. But my point is, how much revenue do you estimate Sky lose as a result of a Charlton stream being illegally uploaded? Obviously I don't expect a figure but you'll be hard pressed to convince me it's not a pittance
If you say so? You got things absolutely wrong, just own it. Almost all of us watching streams are watching CTV, my box has every ifollow channel too.
Just to correct you @PragueAddick if you pirate a Charlton match there’s a 90% chance it’s from CTV as the games aren’t on Bein etc
Well some games are, of course rhey are, because the EFL have the separate international rights package which wíll cause me play off grief. And my usual get out card for those games is Viaplay, as my Scandi mate’s son lets me use his log in.
And have either you or @valleynick66 actually seen an illegal Charlton TV stream, complete with Terry and Greg commentary? It would mean someone paid a sub and uploaded it. Really?
Almost every week it happens. It doesn’t mean someone’s paid but potentially that they’ve hacked into the system. It will happen for every team in the EFL
OK, if you say so. But my point is, how much revenue do you estimate Sky lose as a result of a Charlton stream being illegally uploaded? Obviously I don't expect a figure but you'll be hard pressed to convince me it's not a pittance
If you say so? You got things absolutely wrong, just own it. Almost all of us watching streams are watching CTV, my box has every ifollow channel too.
So how many of this "us" you speak of are committed Charlton fans then in you estimation? That's what I'm interested in, not whether or not I'm up with all the latest ways to steal content you really ought to be paying for. Especially if its content from your own club where payment would go to the club.
If you’re not to date on something perhaps it’s better to listen to those that are rather than getting it totally wrong and still giving someone a shitty reply? But I’d suggest anyone bother to tune into a Charlton game is a pretty committed fan.
FYI I pay for Charlton TV every year but having to dick around with VPNs and blocked (google) captcha bollocks just means it’s easier to watch via my tv box.
I think the decision by the club to drop the CTV pre game build up was wrong and they should consider starting the broadcast again. I haven’t missed a match on CTV since Covid (apart from when I attend the games) I’m not surprised that the revenue has stayed similar and I’m sure it would increase with a decent production pre and post match. I also don’t believe the broadcast affects gates all it does is allow fans that can’t get to games for various reasons the chance to support our club
I think the decision by the club to drop the CTV pre game build up was wrong and they should consider starting the broadcast again. I haven’t missed a match on CTV since Covid (apart from when I attend the games) I’m not surprised that the revenue has stayed similar and I’m sure it would increase with a decent production pre and post match. I also don’t believe the broadcast affects gates all it does is allow fans that can’t get to games for various reasons the chance to support our club
I always enjoyed the CTV build up too and don't like that it's gone, but I think CTV use the Sky coverage superimposed by the CTV commentary crew....... I'm not sure if CTV had to cut a deal alongside the EFL one to make this happen....... but I'm wondering whether there's some kind of contractual obligation which means CTV can't use live studio coverage (only Sky can be live)..... as what we get now is Terry/Greg/Brownie and 'old' video clips from the club website?
I think the decision by the club to drop the CTV pre game build up was wrong and they should consider starting the broadcast again. I haven’t missed a match on CTV since Covid (apart from when I attend the games) I’m not surprised that the revenue has stayed similar and I’m sure it would increase with a decent production pre and post match. I also don’t believe the broadcast affects gates all it does is allow fans that can’t get to games for various reasons the chance to support our club
The club made a loss last year of 13m, is it the best use of our scant resources to spend money on pre match broadcasts?
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My issue is about how much Sky would lose if they allowed the private streaming to just carry on alongside them. Very little, I'd assert. And as for the international rights, what a joke. I have never for example met a single Czech football fan who said they'd watched a live English game from lower than FAPL level on TV. And at the same time how many Charlton fans are permanent resident in Prague. I know of one other. One. (He's an occasional Lifer). Yet because Nova Sport are, supposedly, going to show the play-off games, I can't watch CTV? It's ridiculous.
It looks like it will work for me, but will not work for the vast majority of International Addicks.
- Without a VPN, NowTV detected that I am not in the right country for their services.
- I switched on VPN to UK, and that satisfied NowTV.
- however the next step is to set up an account for which a UK debit/credit card, with a link to a UK address, is required. Fortunately I have that. Most of the International Addicks in the WA group don't. NowTV operates in Germany, but Sky has its own separate channels there.
- I've set up an account. A monthly membership will cost me £35.
- there remains a small danger, I suppose, that Sky may use its own geo-blocking on top of NowTVs, but probably not. I assume NowTV and Sky are business partners.
So it appears to be a plan. I do have a better one, whereby my mate's son will renew his Viaplay sub, and give me access. Viaplay will deffo show it, and with a rather vanilla English commentary, but probably preferably to the inanity of Sky.
But neither of these options are open to most International Addicks. So I will continue to lobby for change to this situation both in the short and long term. For example, thanks to an article in The Athletic, I know that the streams come from a central EFL studio near to but separate to Sky's in Osterley. That's where they do the geo-blocking. It has happened here in Czechia that the Czech holder of the EFL rights did not actually take up the option of showing some obscure Charlton game that Sky had picked. (Well, colour me gob-smacked). But the EFL geo-blocked me anyway!!!. Clearly the lazy fuckers just automatically geo-block all countries with a rights agreement, regardless of whether the rights holder actually shows the game. The twats at Pitch International should be prevailed upon to provide some service for their fee, and check round the rights holders to confirm whether or not they are broadcasting, so that the EFL only geo-block those countries. A side-benefit would be that if it were confirmed that the Czech broadcaster really will show the games, then I'd potentially sign up with them (depending on the cancellation terms). Isn't that the supposed purpose of the international deal?Actually since there is some time, I'll go after Pitch myself and ask them to do it. (and why not, when they evade).
You see what this is, I hope? A shoddy deal put together by shoddy people with contempt for the "core customer".
It's just a hunch but I believe overall Gavin Carter will be sympathetic about this, so I'll prepare something in advance for the May 8 CAST meeting with him, so that he has a chance to look into it and give some clarity on the night.
I’ve checked it out in France before. They have the rights but don’t show it becausethey probably never wanted the rights in the first place. I’ve asked about it and they can’t believe that anyone would want to watch 3rd division English football. It’s that absurdly simple.
I’m going to have to dig out the TP link box I bought for the play offs 6 years ago, make a monthly subscription and then buy Now TV. I hope it still works - I gave it up thanks to the over maligned Thomas Sandgaard.