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Post by davidm on May 5, 2023 18:29:16 GMT
EFL and Sky have agreed a very comprehensive package of live Championship, League 1 and League 2 matches from season 2024/25. It means that :- • 328 Sky Bet Championship matches • 248 Sky Bet League One matches • 248 Sky Bet League Two matches • All 15 Play-Off matches • All 93 Carabao Cup matches • All 127 EFL Trophy matches will be shown live. That’s a hell of a lot of live games.Full details are here www.efl.com/news/2023/may/efl-announces-landmark-broadcasting-deal-with-sky-sports
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Post by riochforthereebok on May 6, 2023 11:53:33 GMT
Giving even lesser reason to frequent our magnificent stadium
Could this be the death of the ‘walk to the ground’ supporters one wonder??
Mind you, these dodgy Firesticks have been supplying us with all the live games one could wish for over the last few years
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Post by OohMac on May 6, 2023 15:49:05 GMT
Think the "walk to the stadium" supporters ended when they uprooted from Bolton to Horwich.
Does this really change things for us. Heard its 4 times as many games. But unless I'm mistaken only remember us being on twice this season (Derby home/Charlton away) so if we quadruple that it's still only 4 home games.
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Post by whitesince63 on May 6, 2023 17:26:43 GMT
I’ve read through the details but unless I’ve missed something will we have to subscribe to Sky or will we still be able to just purchase the games we want. Clearly the 3pm Saturday games are still excluded but it’s the away and night games I’m interested in? There don’t appear to be any prices so that doesn’t seem to give any clues.
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Post by OohMac on May 6, 2023 21:50:25 GMT
Let's face it, if your outside UK you can legally watch any game anytime you want. Why would you not expect people to cotton on and exploit that.
Sky are only doing this because they know they can't beat or take on the piracy and they are making steps to try to and get to a point where you can watch all the matches through thier platform.
Sky seem to be losing thier grip on all sports at the moment. Champs league is BT, most boxing is DAZN or BT. Soccer Saturday is slowly singing with Jeff leaving. Soccer AM called time. And Amazon are only just starting off. Think DAZN are trying to get the American style service of Ifollow too. So you will buy a season ticket for your team.
Think this is Sky's last roll of the doce to remain relevant or to maintain Lion share.
P.s have the bolton news disabled the comments?
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Post by whitesince63 on May 7, 2023 7:38:45 GMT
You may be right about Sky OM and the competition is growing all the time. I know iFollow wasn’t as polished as Sky nut I actually liked that and the fact that you could just purchase a video pass for any available matches which I’m not sure is now the same with Sky. Whilst the total money has gone up that’s spread over all the clubs and compared to the PL it still looks like pocket money. Wanderers do exceptionally well out of iFollow so I would be surprised if they do half as well out of this new deal but maybe things will become clearer over time and it will be better than it appears.
Agree on the BN comments and as a subscriber I will contact them to find out why.
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Post by Pedro on May 10, 2023 8:15:44 GMT
There was also something that I heard/read somewhere about the club investigating having their own channel?
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Post by chip on May 10, 2023 17:16:02 GMT
If my sums are correct that should be ten games for each club per season unless they just show the top teams like they do in the premiership 🤷♂️COYWM
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Post by OohMac on May 10, 2023 18:28:44 GMT
If my sums are correct that should be ten games for each club per season unless they just show the top teams like they do in the premiership 🤷♂️COYWM Assume it would mirror the red button so Tuesdays would be available to watch across the board.
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Post by whitesince63 on May 10, 2023 20:56:14 GMT
I’m still confused. Assuming there’s a red button every match would be available but that’s not what I understand from the information provided as there’s a limited number of games being shown. Also you’d surely have to have a subscription for it even though you may not want to watch all the games that are on. With iFollow you could choose what you want as all Wanderers games were available geographically even though certain games weren’t available for a UK pass. I fear that this is going to be much more complicated and not as good for supporters and not as lucrative for the club?
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Post by OohMac on May 11, 2023 6:35:09 GMT
From memory when we were in championship. Sky showed a main match on a Tuesday(having lost all champions league games) but red button allowed you to chose the choice of ALL other games. May have been without any commentary and pictures only. Not sure they did replays.
Ken Anderson stopped them doing this at Macron. As far as I know he was the only "owner" to take this stance, presumably making a point that gates will be down and probably not caring about what they would do because he wouldn't be there.
I don't think numbers would suffer too much if games were free to watch (you'd need Sky) like we saw in covid season watching a game on TV even with a stale atmosphere made fans think wouldn't it be good to see the games.
If you watch a good game on Tuesday you're more than likely think might pop down on Saturday if they play like that.
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Post by whitesince63 on May 11, 2023 7:33:44 GMT
My point is though OM that most Wanderers fans will attend home games so don’t need either Sky or iFollow but few attend away games and would therefore want to use the service. As iFollow wasn’t by subscription you just picked the games you wanted which was fine but it seems that under the new deal with Sky it’s going to be all or nothing by subscription and I for one aren’t going to subscribe to anything with Sky who I absolutely loathe. I’m certain I’m not alone in that and I can only see viewer numbers dropping if that’s the case which I believe will cost the club who’ve been one of the biggest gainers from iFollow revenue.
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Post by chip on May 19, 2023 13:26:39 GMT
Just looking at I follow the way the club are starting out with there own media stuff come 24/25 it might well be the end of I follow. I wonder how much they will charge us to watch by streaming 🤷♂️ Onwards and upwards COYWM
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Post by Pedro on Jun 20, 2023 7:42:18 GMT
iFollow BWFC Update
All match passes and subscription packages are currently unavailable to purchase while Bolton Wanderers plans its move over to a new digital platform.
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Post by Pedro on Jul 3, 2023 10:13:02 GMT
I wrote to the Club well over a week ago for information. Email acknowledged. Nothing heard yet.
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