Theboss Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Saving for Sky Sports In that case the figure is much higher than £500k, all in the broadcasting costs are about £1m over a season and then if they have wrangled out of the contract then that is a further saving of £1m or possibly more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee 26 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Are they likely to show the speedway on BT Sports 1, 2 or 3 does anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 AS yet we haven't heard from BT about their plans. I'm sure we will when they have all their ducks (production, commentators, presentation, etc) in a row. Would be extremely surprised if Kelvin and Nigel are not the commentators. Will Natalie be the pits interviewer, will Chris Louis come onboard? Have a pretty good idea who will handle the TV broadcast and it will be good although perhaps not quite along the lines flagrag suggested. Presume BT will be able to interject some SGP highlights into a domestic meeting should they so wish. Does the 18 meetings mentioned include the British Final? If so, perhaps a change of race might would be a good idea... staging it on a Monday at Belle Vue is not a good, traffic, late night and all that. How about a Saturday afternoon ... would that appeal more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman2006 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Are they likely to show the speedway on BT Sports 1, 2 or 3 does anyone know? Cant wait to find out, probably BT 2-3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DEAN MACHINE Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) AS yet we haven't heard from BT about their plans. I'm sure we will when they have all their ducks (production, commentators, presentation, etc) in a row. Would be extremely surprised if Kelvin and Nigel are not the commentators. Will Natalie be the pits interviewer, will Chris Louis come onboard? Have a pretty good idea who will handle the TV broadcast and it will be good although perhaps not quite along the lines flagrag suggested. Presume BT will be able to interject some SGP highlights into a domestic meeting should they so wish. Does the 18 meetings mentioned include the British Final? If so, perhaps a change of race might would be a good idea... staging it on a Monday at Belle Vue is not a good, traffic, late night and all that. How about a Saturday afternoon ... would that appeal more? they have spoken ,well Natalie has , the British final is the first meeting to be shown on June 19th Edited March 7, 2017 by THE DEAN MACHINE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple.H. Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 they have spoken ,well Natalie has , the British final is the first meeting to be shown on June 19th I'm quite willing to be her (non) glamorous assistant Travelling the country getting paid to watch speedway would be pretty much a dream job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 (edited) PhilipRising- The conversations I had last week at trade show with some of the BT sports guys and a few equipment vendors was that the OB side of things had been sorted and contracted to Timeline OB who did British GP and World Cup for BSI & BT last year. They have a new unit called RF1 which is a combined 12 camera production unit and Uplink all in one unit which makes it easier to rig and keeps costs down which would be ideal for what is required now. It may be that things have changed around again as they do frequently in this industry especially if costings can be reduced. As you have said I am sure that once the BT team have everything confirmed and the first couple of meetings sorted they will do some official launch. The main thing is that British Speedway is still on tv this year Edited March 7, 2017 by flagrag 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DEAN MACHINE Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 PhilipRising- The conversations I had last week at trade show with some of the BT sports guys and a few equipment vendors was that the OB side of things had been sorted and contracted to Timeline OB who did British GP and World Cup for BSI & BT last year. They have a new unit called RF1 which is a combined 12 camera production unit and Uplink all in one unit which makes it easier to rig and keeps costs down which would be ideal for what is required now. It may be that things have changed around again as they do frequently in this industry especially if costings can be reduced. As you have said I am sure that once the BT team have everything confirmed and the first couple of meetings sorted they will do some official launch. The main thing is that British Speedway is still on tv this year in your honest opinion is go speed good for British speedway in terms of media or do they hold the sport back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobblytriers Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 they have spoken ,well Natalie has , the British final is the first meeting to be shown on June 19th So we'll be halfway into the season before we see some action then! This all sounds like a take it or leave it offer and the BSPA, or whoever, just took it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny the spud Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 BSPA statement reads ..."broadcast partners for the 2017 season" so only a 1 year deal then ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieIpswich Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 There HAS to be t.v. coverage or clubs would fold, its sold to sponsors as being on sky so something else had to take over, its a start but again BSPA have done things the wrong way On another note anyone got a direct email for buster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woz01 Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 One thing BT Sport does better than Sky is advertise what's on their channels. You often get an advert for SGP during the breaks on football and Rugby so hopefully the same for domestic speedway. If coverage doesn't start till June there will be 2 live meetings a week till play off time, that might work out well considering the major sports will be off season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieIpswich Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 Also those who was SGP might watch the PL speedway so you get a cross over audience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Central Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) One thing BT Sport does better than Sky is advertise what's on their channels. You often get an advert for SGP during the breaks on football and Rugby so hopefully the same for domestic speedway. If coverage doesn't start till June there will be 2 live meetings a week till play off time, that might work out well considering the major sports will be off season. Considering the long-proven propensity of Speedway followers to stay at home on Sky Mondays. How will this adversely affect the cash flow of tracks in both divisions if there is BT Speedway on our screens twice-a-week after their June start. Sounds potentially disastrous. Edited March 8, 2017 by Grand Central Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Shovlar Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 Sky sports showing less and less. The expense of te football finally coming home to roost. The saving of 500,000 is actually incorrect, as Sky wil loose subscriptions to bt as speedway fans cancel. When you consider Sky pay Tierry Henry 4 million a year to bore us with his fotball punditry, speedway was very good value for money. So no league speedway until the second half of the season. No reason why Kelvin Tatum can't come onboard with Chris Louis. Nigel Pearson has more to consider but it would be good to keep them together as they are very good and compliment each other. Hope the deal is decent for the clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray c Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 BSPA statement reads ..."broadcast partners for the 2017 season" so only a 1 year deal then ? perhaps it's a one year deal to see how it goes.Sky as got less interested in speedway over the last two year's anyway coverage poor at time's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAMMER180 Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 sky are over reaching its self with more and more darts and the 1 billion its stumping up for the football they are losing a lot of sports at the moment but BT is good for speedway I feel better coverage by far skys started looking like bargain basement last year so onwards and upwards for the new season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 There HAS to be t.v. coverage or clubs would fold, its sold to sponsors as being on sky so something else had to take over, its a start but again BSPA have done things the wrong way On another note anyone got a direct email for buster Why would clubs fold without TV? 2nd and 3rd tier clubs manage it, you just have to cut your cloth accordingly, they managed it before the sport was shown, all TV has done is create an army of armchair fans that has little intention of going to watch live and of course every week bar the play offs we watch speedway in stadiums practically empty because fans stay at home, hardly a great advertisement to those on the outside. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieIpswich Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 The top flight clubs and riders will go to sponsors and sell saying "live on sky" which adds value through association no sky or no BT and all sponsorship contracts become void unless of course the sponsor is a die hard speedway fan who just wants to support the club. Maybe clubs would not fold but would struggle without having a selling platform, again, this works for british superbike.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) Should be seen as a brand new start for the sport in this country! Fill the stadiums for the 18 matches even if for free... Focus on local schools with 'kids and adult' combined free tickets... Then go all out on the night to impress those in attendance, promote the evening well and glean loads of personal information from those there to use in further marketing. A captured market crowd of three thousand or more, who will enter with full wallets, can still deliver a good few quid to a savvy business person.. Imagine how many 'kids and adult' combined tickets you could flog at reduced prices for the following meeting on the night..? Start with the British Final. Pack the NSS out through great marketing and pricing... Saturday afternoon in city centre Manchester is heaving, tens and tens of thousands of people pass through it, so run a British Final Roadshow in conjunction with BT. Reduced price tickets, merchandise give away etc... Make everyone in a conurbation of 2.5million people know the British Speedway Final is on in Manchester 48hrs later... Let's be honest, if 'The British Championship' (THE major individual tournament outside Cardiff in Britain) is played out in front of one man and his dog, it would be hugely embarrassing for the sport in front of its new broadcasters and wouldn't set the new relationship off to a great start. And certainly wouldn't impress any non speedway fan watching... The BSPA should throw the kitchen sink at it and see if it can kick start a turnaround in the sports fortunes... Edited March 8, 2017 by mikebv 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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