Brummie Hibs Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 An absolute joke! Is this exclusive live matches? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougiemacfarlanearran Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Took this from website earlier. Nordic streaming service Viaplay has acquired exclusive rights to broadcast ALL Scotlandmen's matches from 2024 to 2028. UEFA have announced a deal has been struck to air future World Cup and Euro qualifying campaigns plus Nations League and friendly matches via the online-only subscription platform. 🥹 sense a fans boycott on the horizon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templeton_Peck Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 They can fcuking fcuk off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccaughey85 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Is this necessarily worse than skysports? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 26 minutes ago, dougiemacfarlanearran said: Took this from website earlier. Nordic streaming service Viaplay has acquired exclusive rights to broadcast ALL Scotlandmen's matches from 2024 to 2028. UEFA have announced a deal has been struck to air future World Cup and Euro qualifying campaigns plus Nations League and friendly matches via the online-only subscription platform. 🥹 sense a fans boycott on the horizon! Depends on the pricing, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 1 minute ago, mccaughey85 said: Is this necessarily worse than skysports? Agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BraveheartGordon Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Absolutely no chance am I forking out for another broadcaster, can barely justify paying for Sky Sports, BT and Premier Sports for the cup matches already. Disgusting lack of awareness, hope the company acquiring them go bankrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccaughey85 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 5 minutes ago, ceudmilefailte said: Agree. I am guessing that like skysports there will be a subscription fee etc so either way scotland fans will have to pay. I will probably just watch it on hesgoals or in the pub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Amazon firestick + VPN + Kodi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 From what I can gather looking around, the subscription fee for this service varies between £4 and £12 a month, and looks like they have the rights to the Dutch national team also. I suppose the encouraging part is "free to air games", which means they will potentially lease out to STV or BBC Scotland, or will stream for free on their hub/YouTube. From what I understand they are already streaming Scottish club football in Scandinavia, but the majority of their broadcasts are Nordic Noir tv shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 35 minutes ago, mccaughey85 said: Is this necessarily worse than skysports? Totally agree. Some of the reactions on here are hilarious. Imagine boycotting games demanding more money is handed over to Rupert Murdoch 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 It's interesting timing as was speaking to someone the other day about how ending the Sky monopoly on football has only ended in the same punters spending more money to watch the same stuff. Essentially each entity have a monopoly on their bits so folk have ended up having to chose to fund more monopolies or not watch it (or get it on the dodge). I can see me paying for this to be honest if there is no choice but punting something else to fund it more just to justify it to myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) Looks like they have picked up the broadcasting rights for EVERYONE in UEFA with the exception of England. That feels like a awful lot for a relatively unknown brand to take on straight away before they even start streaming in most of Europe, so good chance they might be more willing to lease out (similar to deal Welsh had with Sky and SC4) to BBC Scotland or STVPlayer for Scotland games here and there. Suppose best to wait and see. Edited April 27, 2022 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanticscot Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 If England are the only exception, they will be in a great position to negotiate. I wonder who they will have as their broadcast team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 It says they have the rights to broadcast but are these rights exclusive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazziessc Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Another con, take it England got of easy coz BBC and ITV will front the cash? It will be Fire stick and a subscription elsewhere for me....I haven't given any of these multiple companies money in nearly 4 years but have watched everything I wanted. Shysters the lot of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 17 minutes ago, romanticscot said: If England are the only exception, they will be in a great position to negotiate. I wonder who they will have as their broadcast team. Channel 4 apparently, but unclear what games that is, as not full rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, Mazziessc said: Another con, take it England got of easy coz BBC and ITV will front the cash? It will be Fire stick and a subscription elsewhere for me....I haven't given any of these multiple companies money in nearly 4 years but have watched everything I wanted. Shysters the lot of them! agree with this. It was bad enough selling cups games to Premier Sports but now this. If you are a fan of Scottish club and international football you need to pay for Sly sports, prem sports and now viaplay. Thats assuming Viaplay have exclusive right to scotland matches. Firestick for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudScot Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 That is absolute fucking pish. Online only is totally wank too. Its fairly apt for the SFA to sell the rights of their games to a platform zero fans will have access to currently and thus leaving them out of pocket and annoyed/mean they won’t watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 15 minutes ago, ProudScot said: That is absolute fucking pish. Online only is totally wank too. Its fairly apt for the SFA to sell the rights of their games to a platform zero fans will have access to currently and thus leaving them out of pocket and annoyed/mean they won’t watch. UEFA sold the rights (as they do for everyone), not the SFA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 17 minutes ago, ProudScot said: That is absolute fucking pish. Online only is totally wank too. Its fairly apt for the SFA to sell the rights of their games to a platform zero fans will have access to currently and thus leaving them out of pocket and annoyed/mean they won’t watch. I only subscribe to Sky when there is a Scotland game on so I doubt if I will be out of pocket. It won't be more expensive than Sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Hibs Posted April 27, 2022 Author Share Posted April 27, 2022 The issue I have is that if I'm not attending a game, then I want to go to the pub to watch it. However, no pubs will have this. I have IPTV and all that already, so I'll see the game no problem, but I'll miss going to the pub with the banter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 19 minutes ago, wanderer said: UEFA sold the rights (as they do for everyone), not the SFA. But the SFA must have sold the rights to UEFA in the first place, or more likely just given them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 4 minutes ago, Orraloon said: But the SFA must have sold the rights to UEFA in the first place, or more likely just given them away. As has everyone in UEFA when tv rights were centralized, all the money gathered together and then redistributed between all the fa's. SFA say in the final deal is very minimal (uefa basically puts them out to the highest bidder), but looks like they have sounded out Viaplay and asked about free to air games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bzzzz Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Seems more likely to me that they'll sell the rights... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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