English football on television has been broadcast since 1938. Since the Premier League was founded in 1992, English football has become a very lucrative industry. In the 2013-14 season, domestic TV rights for the Premier League 20 teams worth 1 billion pounds per year. The League earns EUR2.2 billion a year in domestic and international television rights.
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Initial history
Initial years
The BBC began its television service in 1936, although it was almost a year before the first televised show aired - a specially arranged friendly match between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserve at Highbury on September 16, 1937. This was followed by the first of the televised international matches, between England and Scotland on April 9, 1938, and the first televised FA Cup final soon followed after, on April 30 of the same year, between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
In October 1946, the first live television football game was broadcast by the BBC from Barnet base, Underhill. The twenty minute game against Wealdstone was broadcast on television in the first half and thirty-five minutes of the second half before it became too dark.
However, football television coverage did not develop and over the next two decades only the games shown were the FA Cup final and an odd England game. . The first FA Cup match in addition to the final to be shown was a fifth-round match between Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers on February 8, 1947, but the matches continued and only matches in London could be aired for technical reasons.
Regular scope dawns
The appearance of the spotlight led to the creation of the European Cup, which was designed as a mid-weekend cup competition for European champions, in 1955. The newly formed ITV television station saw football on television as an ideal way to get a share of the audience. from the only broadcaster of their competitor, the BBC. The BBC, meanwhile, began to show a short footage of the game (with a maximum of five minutes) on the Saturday Special Night program of September 10, 1955, until the cancellation in 1963. The first game shown was both. from Division One - Luton Town v Newcastle United and Charlton Athletic v Everton. Kenneth Wolstenholme and Cliff Michelmore are the commentators.
Early attempts at a direct football league were made in 1960-61, when ITV approved a £ 150,000 deal with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the first direct league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers on Bloomfield Road. The match starts at 6:50 pm with live coverage starting at 7:30 with the title The Big Game . One big blow to TV moguls was the absence of big box office Stanley Matthews due to injury, and the game ended 1-0 to Bolton in front of the half-empty stadium.
However, ITV withdrew from the deal after the first Arsenal and then Tottenham Hotspur refused their permission to shoot in their match against Newcastle United and Aston Villa, and the Football League demanded a dramatic increase in player performance payments. Both matches received coverage from the BBC on Specialized Sport instead.
However, ITV moved back to football, albeit tentatively, in 1962 when Anglia Television launched the Match of the Week, which showed the match highlights from around East Anglia. The first game featured was 3-2 Ipswich Town's defeat at the hands of Wolves at Portman Road on 22 September 1962. Tyne Tees Television in North East of England began broadcasting local games soon after the title of Shoot . Football league immediately get the national audience once again. In 1964, the BBC introduced Match of the Day - initially shown on BBC2 and intended to train BBC cameramen for the upcoming 1966 World Cup. The first match was Liverpool's 3-2 victory over Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August, and the estimated audience of 20,000 was far less than the number of paying customers in the field. At that time BBC2 is only acceptable in the London area, although at the end of Match of the Day ' in the first season samples can be sampled in the Midlands. The program was transferred to BBC1 after England's victory at the 1966 World Cup and was finally accepted by television viewers across the UK.
World Cup
There was live footage of World Cup soccer on display in England in 1954 and 1958 - but only selected matches were available. In 1954, Kenneth Wolstenholme commented on several television matches for the BBC from Switzerland - including the quarter-finals between Hungary and Brazil. Thunderstorms in the Alps cut the picture and many angry viewers wrote to complain that the BBC had pulled the plug. The 1958 tournament in Sweden sees a greater range of matches thanks to the new Eurovision Network; The BBC and ITV both filtered out the game, although the network had to overcome the clash with coverage from the Scottish FA, who feared that attendance at a Junior football game might be hit. The 1962 World Cup in Chile was covered in delayed form by the BBC with a film that had to be airlifted through the United States back to the UK. The matches are generally seen three days after they are played, although every game is covered by the BBC with comments.
With intercontinental communication satellites in their childhood and recording new advances, the first tournament to get extensive international coverage was the 1966 tournament, held in England. The tournament, which England won, boosted the sport's popularity. With more football audiences than ever, Match of the Day is evolving - switching from BBC Two to BBC One to reach a wider audience. ITV's regional coverage has also expanded over this period with London's weekend ATV companies launching Star Soccer in October 1965, Southern Television's Southern Soccer and ABC World of Soccer > Also start appearing regularly in the Sunday TV Times schedule. London Weekend Television's Big Match began in 1968, and eventually all of ITV's network football coverage will be broadcast under its title.
Increase in live League coverage
Demand for football grew through the 1970s and early 1980s, and the decision to begin screening of league matches was almost inevitable; The deal was hit to start the 1983-84 season and the first direct league game since 1960 was played on ITV, between Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest, on 2 October 1983. The Spurs will also appear in the BBC's first live league match at Manchester United on Friday night a few weeks then.
By the late 1980s, the value of live TV coverage had skyrocketed; while a two-year contract for the rights in 1983 cost only Ã, Â £ 5.2 million, a four-year contract exclusively landed by ITV in 1988 at a cost of Ã, Â £ 44m, a fourfold increase per year. Now there are situations where live football is on TV almost every Sunday afternoon from around November onwards, as ITV broadcasts top football almost every week and the BBC has the right to FA Cup occupying the other weekend.
With top-flight football proved to be very profitable, in 1992 clubs from the First Division Football League decided to break out of the league massively and set their own league, Premier League. They finally chose to agree a deal with Sky Sports rather than ITV or BBC, which means leading football directly above the flight is no longer available on terrestrial television. ITV continued to show second-tier matches regionally for the next four seasons until they were also transferred to Sky Sports, apart from one season (2001-02) when they were featured on an unsuccessful ITV Digital platform.
Premier League Era
Soccer on television today
Premier League coverage now dominates football on British television, especially in financial terms; contracts agreed between the league and the BSkyB broadcaster in 1992 and 1997 were respectively valued at à £ 191.5 million and Ã,  £ 670m. Sky is also capable of displaying more live games than ever before, with some live games on many days of the game (on early Sunday and Monday). However, the EU objected to what it saw as a monopoly on television rights and demanded a 2007 contract divided into separate packages of 23 games; Sky finally won four of the six packages available, with the other two taken by Setanta Sports. Setanta went bankrupt in 2009 with packets taken over by ESPN. From 2010/11, Sky has five packages and one ESPN. The upper level still has a presence on terrestrial television in the form of highlights on Match of the Day .
From the 2009/10 season, Football League live footage returned to British terrestrial television for the first time since 2001 with the BBC securing 10 straight Championship matches per season, as well as highlighting the Football League after today's match. Sky also showed lower direct league football while Setanta also showed a large number of National Conference matches before the channel ended.
There is also extensive coverage of various Cup competitions. Every game in the Champions League (formerly European Cup) is available at BT Sport. BT Sport and the BBC broadcast the FA Cup while Sky shows the League Cup. ITV and BT Sport featuring Europa League with even Football League Trophy get live television on Sky Sports.
Premier League satellite decoder case
The Premier League holds an exclusive contract with British Sky Broadcasting broadcaster. Some public homes are installing a set of foreign satellite television set-top hardware to enable customers to watch Premier League matches live on their premises.
The EU Justice Tribunal has ruled that the EU law concerning free movement of goods should be applied to the decoder card.
In 2007 Karen Murphy, a Portsmouth voter, was convicted under s297 (1) of the Copyright, Design and Patent Act 1988 (CDPA), in her two times: '... dishonestly received the program including in broadcasting services provided from premises in the United Kingdom with a view to avoiding any payment of fees applicable to program acceptance. 'In 2012, the European Court ruled that blocking foreign satellite TV violated the single EU market rules. The British High Court overruled Mrs. Murphy.
Worldwide coverage
Promoted as "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Premier League is the world's most watched football league, broadcasted in 212 counties to 643 million homes and a potential 4.7 billion TV viewers; The Premier League production arm, Premier League Productions, is operated by IMG Productions and is responsible for producing all content for its international television partners.
United States
In the United States, coverage for most of 2000 and early 2010 is shared between Fox Soccer/Fox Soccer Plus and ESPN, with Fox Deportes and ESPN Deportes holding Spanish rights. NBC Sports (primarily through NBCSN, NBC, CNBC and USA Network) replaces ESPN and Fox Soccer as the exclusive league announcer in the US (in English and Spanish; Telemundo and NBC Universo now have Spanish-language coverage) starting in 2013-14, as a result of a three-year deal, a new $ 250 million dollar deal with the league, including 20 games starting at 17:30 British time on a free-on-air Saturday on the main NBC network (12:30 pm American Eastern). Another game is made through a time-only channel known as "Premier League Extra Time", and all games are brought through the NBC Sports website and the NBC Sports mobile app with Everywhere TV authentication, with USA Network bringing the game in place of NBCSN during the 2014 Winter Olympics. and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Starting with the 2017-18 season, all matches that are not featured on linear TV channels will be available in the Premier League Pass, a subscription service hosted by NBC Sports Gold. Sunday's coverage coverage (under the flag of the Sunday Championship) will take place on May 11, 2014 by ten NBCUniversal networks, along with Telemundo and mun2. The Fox Sports property airs the FA Cup, with a free-to-air Fox network that airs the FA Cup Final.
On August 10, 2015 NBC Sports announced it had reached a six-year extension with the Premier League to broadcast the football league through the 2021-22 season. The value of the license agreement increased 100% with an estimated deal worth $ 1 billion (Ã, Â £ 640 million); duplicate the previous value. Traditionally a three-year contract, NBC Sports is capable of doubling it, as Premier League showings on NBC and NBCSN averaged 479,000 viewers in the 2014-15 season - up 9% of the NBC Sports record set during its debut covering the Premier League in 2013-14. (438,000 viewers), and up 118% from 2012-13, when coverage is still live on Fox Soccer and ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000 viewers). Along with the increase in rankings, NBC Sports has been widely praised for its coverage of the Premier League, while Fox Sports and ESPN are criticized for ignoring coverage, supporting other major US sports that they are also discussing.
Asia
The Premier League is very popular in Asia, where it is the most distributed sports program. In India, the match is broadcast live on ESPN and Star Sports. Premier League broadcasting started in India in August 1996. Liverpool's 2-0 victory over Arsenal was the first Monday night's broadcast match. In China, data from 2003 showed that the match attracted a television audience between 100 million and 360 million, more than any other foreign sport. In 2012, China's rights are awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement starting on the 2013/14 season. Due to its popularity in Asia, the league has held four pre-season tournaments there, the only Premier League affiliation tournament ever held outside the UK. The Premier League Asia Trophy has been played in Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and China and involves three Premier League clubs playing against leading teams from host countries, often national teams.
More
In Canada, Sportsnet has Premier League rights for three years from the 2010-11 season. Select a game (primarily broadcast by ESPN) is a sub-license for TSN. Beginning in 2013-14 season, the match is shared between Sportsnet and TSN: some TSN broadcasts take advantage of NBC Sports feeds rather than the main world feed. Sportsnet holds the rights to the FA Cup, though all but the final are broadcast on the Sportsnet World subscription service.
In Australia, Fox Sports broadcast all of 380 matches this season directly, except for the last day, when only selected matches are shown. Foxtel uses the 'Audience Options' service to give customers the option of selecting a game Saturday 3pm to watch.
Figures from British tourism agency VisitBritain show that 750,000 visitors to the UK attended Premier League matches in 2010, spending a total of Ã, Â £ 595 million and averaging Ã, Â £ 766. Visitors from Norway are likely to come to watch Premier League football , with one in 13 Norwegian tourists traveling exclusively to attend matches. The second on the list is the United Arab Emirates. For those who visit family and friends, the most likely to watch soccer games come from Japan, China and Australia.
Kick-off time
Premier League
Every weekend of six Premier League matches will be moved to show on Sky Sports or BT Sport. The main kick-off time for a TV game is at 12.30 and 5.30 pm on Saturdays, 1:30 pm and 4:00 pm on Sundays, and 8:00 pm on Mondays. For up to 10 games each season, there is also a Friday night TV slot at 8 pm. Other matches can also be moved to Sunday, usually because one of the teams involved played in UEFA Europa League match on Thursday. It can sometimes result in 12:00, 14:15 and 16:30 Sunday kick-offs, with 12:00 matches sometimes aired on BT Sport. The 2:15 noon game will occasionally start at 2:05 pm.
Sky will almost always feature Saturday 12:30 and Sunday 4:00 pm games, usually after Sunday at 1:30 pm as part of Super Sunday's double charge. Two matches per mid-week round will also be selected for the live broadcast by BT on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 19:45 or 20:00.
BT Sport usually broadcast live Premier League matches at 5:30 pm on Saturday.
Each broadcaster is subject to restrictions on how many times they can show each team live per season to ensure a fair TV revenue distribution. Similarly, each team must appear at least once in each TV slot.
Football League
All Football League games broadcast on television are broadcast on SkySports, with 2 games (usually Championship) per weekend being broadcast at 7:45 pm on Friday and 17:30 on Saturday. Other games can be scheduled additionally at different times.
3pm "Blackout"
In the 1960s, Burnley F.C. Chairman Bob Lord managed to convince fellow Football League chiefs who broadcast the game on Saturday afternoon will negatively impact the presence of other soccer league matches that are not televised and as a result reduce their financial income.
As a result, the FA, Premier League and Football League did not allow the English game to be broadcast live between 14:45 and 17:15 on Saturday in England. To date, the FA Cup Final is an exception and has been broadcast at 3 pm on a Saturday in May; However, in 2012, the FA Cup Final was moved to 5pm.
Foreign matches shown in England are also affected by power outages; Sky Sports did not broadcast the first 15 minutes of the Spanish La Liga game which started at 5 pm England time.
In February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court argued that a "closed period" did not encourage the presence of matches in other league games.
Kokott does not really provide evidence to disprove the premise that stopping television games encourages soccer fans to physically attend matches at their local clubs. Instead, he made a simple comparative point that only a minority of the surveyed football associations (their own number who form the minority of the UEFA association) used a 'blackout' policy to increase their club's presence; implying that a healthy presence recorded in Germany and Spain shows that the closed period is not a necessary prerequisite for a full stadium.
To avoid this blackout, the last day of the Premier League, when all ten games must start simultaneously, it is always played on Sunday. The final round of each Football League game is also scheduled to go from 3pm on Saturday to broadcast one or more games directly.
Direct radio broadcasting is allowed, both nationally and locally; This may be simulcast on the internet, depending on the broadcaster. Audiences outside the UK can still watch this game live on foreign broadcasters, thus creating a bit of gray market in the UK with viewers being able to subscribe or watch the flow of foreign channels.
Premier League and Sky maintain it, while the black market sees the game is not illegal on the part of the audience, it is illegal for anyone (like a public house) to provide such services openly. This has in the past caused heavy fines for public houses in Britain that have shown a 3 o'clock game at their place. Recently, the legality of such fines has been disputed, and a number of Crown Court cases have been reported in which the cukong collectors managed to challenge the Premier League position.
In recent years, Sky Sports has shown a 3 o'clock game on the delay of tape at their Football First event, either in full or as an expanded spotlight.
Note
References
- Horrie, Chris (2002). Premiership , Pocket Books, ISBN 0-7434-4065-X
- Fact Sheet 8: English Football on Television (Sir Norman Chester Football Research Center, Leicester University, 2002)
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