Anyone know if it will be free to everyone while games are being played behind closed doors?
ifollow coverage?
I would imagine it would for season ticket holders. The away games for those that pay for the app will get those free and everyone else paying. I think that would be fair.
No one knows yet but the fact that all 92 prem games are live (29 free to air), spread across every sat and sun, means Championship clubs will have to be creative with screening games. Ifollow is probably the only option but I don't expect it will be cheap.
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There’s other ways and means in the digital world that isn’t that expensive. I’m pretty sure people already know that.
Doubt it, Free for STH and the rest Paying per Match. I think its £10 per match for those abroad, so likely to be £10 for non STH.
It's not per match, or it wasn't previously. I pay $25 AUD per month. Obviously I cancelled when the season 'ended', but will renew in time for the restart.
Would you care to explain how you can do it cheaper legally?
If you can’t make the game but still want to follow the live action then it’s not too late. Get an iFollow match pass from your club and enjoy the match from the comfort of your own screen for just £10.00. With at least 80% of iFollow net revenues going straight to your club, it’s a great way to show your support!
Some will have paid Monthly sub or Yearly
Presumably what will happen is that people abroad will as they normally do be able to buy iFollow match passes for every match at the usual rate which is the equivalent of about £6 in UK currency while people in the UK and Ireland will be able to buy passes at the usual rate of £10 per match for every match not just those on weekdays. Possibly it will bring a little closer the time when there will be 'virtual' season tickets for every match.
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Think I paid £110 for the season for all 46 games and think that’s even cup games and preseason
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Sky do of course have broadcast rights for the Football League too. Have they talked about coverage of Championship matches?
If you can’t make the game but still want to follow the live action then it’s not too late. Get an iFollow match pass from your club and enjoy the match from the comfort of your own screen for just £10.00. With at least 80% of iFollow net revenues going straight to your club, it’s a great way to show your support!
Some will have paid Monthly sub or Yearly
At present:
Non UK users can pay about £110 a season to WATCH all non UK televised matches online.
(This does not included mid week red button games which they also get to view online)
UK users can pay a small amount for audio of matches whether on TV or not - They can't show matches between 3pm-5PM on Saturdays (until now)
UK users can pay £10 a match to watch streams of Mid Week games online on a match per match basis. The Ifollow steams have multi camera and replays whilst the SKY Red Button only has one camera and no replays and often a commentator who knows bugger all about North End, except that Pearson gets booked a lot.
It seems most clubs are willing to allow all Season Card holders to watch home and away games for "free" via Ifollow - I suspect non season ticket holders will still be charged per game to bring in revenue, which incidentally at present is not actually split in favour of the home side.
I suspect that the EFL will want Sky to broadcast as many matches as possible (with how many cameras, replays etc who knows) whether red button or not whilst all games are available online to UK and Non UK countries.
I suspect the broadcasters would be delighted to fight for the Premier League games which could be dished out easy enough, I suspect SKY has less interest in broadcasting every Championship game both in terms of cost and the fact they will only want to show Leeds and maybe the play off rival matches ala Brentford V PNE etc.
Will be interesting what comes of this, the standard of the coverage, will be it one camera etc.
I have heard though that North End are one of the clubs pushing for the best possible coverage and given the stance on no refunds will certainly help their cause.
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I‘m pretty sure it’s weighted in favour of the team selling most ‘tickets’. The example I’ve seen quoted a few times is a (hypothetical) game between Accrington and Portsmouth. If it was televised, the home team gets the tv money. If it’s IFollow, Portsmouth would get around 90% of the Ifollow income because they have 90% of the fans paying to watch the coverage.
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Is that definitely the case?
In this article, the Accrington and Tranmere chairmen state all the iFollow revenues go to whichever team the iFollow subscriber supports, whether the game is home or away.
e.g. if PNE v Leeds was held at Deepdale and "watched" by 6,000 Leeds fans on iFollow, all that revenue from those 6,000 subscribers would go to Leeds Utd (80%) and the EFL (20%). PNE would get zip.
There is not necessarily any clash between live coverage of Premiership and Championship games on the same day because presuming the grounds are empty of spectators there is little need for matches to take place at the same time. It would not surprise me if on Saturdays at least Championship games were to kick off at, say, 1.00pm with coverage on iFollow on club sites with Premiership games kicking off at 3.00pm on-line on Sky in the same way mid-week Championship games are with a live game on terrestrial TV at maybe 5.30pm. With a bit of imagination and flexibility it is all perfectly manageable.
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I’ve been told to expect all the games to be on Sky.
Presumably it will be like the dodgy red button coverage they do for mid-week games.
Yep. I just missed off with word NOT from my post (amended).
I had a conversation with Andy Holt about it at the time.
Will be interesting how this will work.
You would suspect the clubs would want the revenue streams from ifollow yet if SKY broadcast the games they could share infrastructure. Suspect it will also prevent SKY from demanding funding back.
Must be a technical and legal nightmare.
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Cheers. As I don’t have Sky but could subscribe to NOW TV sports, I would probably only get access to ‘featured‘ games - if there are any.
