IainB Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, Pirates Of Poole said: Pity that wasn’t the money offered for the 5 year British Speedway TV deal as that would bring the top riders back! Not much left after Mr 20% has had his share of the pie Edited October 6, 2020 by iainb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waytogo28 Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 10/6/2020 at 9:18 AM, iainb said: Not much left after Mr 20% has had his share of the pie Did he really collect $20 million? Perhaps he settled for $5 million! Not bad for that long ago investment of time and nudge nudge , who you knowness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, waytogo28 said: Did he really collect $20 million? Perhaps he settled for $5 million! Not bad for that long ago investment of time and nudge nudge , who you knowness. THIS continually sniping at Terry Russell is unworthy as without him there would have been no Sky deal in the first place. Anyone who does all the negotiating and brings in money is entitled to a cut. Many years ago a certain Michael Allison brought in considerable sponsorship for individual speedway events including the Wills Internationale. Do you think he did that for nothing. For the record Terry was not involved with the Eurosport deal for British speedway which should have started this year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waytogo28 Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 That is good to know that. If by that you mean TR did not get any fee in relation to this Eurosport deal, which is not what you said. You said he was not involved, which is not the same as still being entitled to his "cut" - sounds more and more like a gang or a cartel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, waytogo28 said: That is good to know that. If by that you mean TR did not get any fee in relation to this Eurosport deal, which is not what you said. You said he was not involved, which is not the same as still being entitled to his "cut" - sounds more and more like a gang or a cartel! HE did not and will not personally get a cut from Eurosport deal although, of course, Swindon like any other Elite League club will. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 Why is all the discussion about tv deals. From what I understand this announcement was that Eurosport EVENTS have taking over the running and promoting of SGP/SoN etc from BSI in 2022. I presume Eurosport will take over the tv deal aswell eventually but that is secondary and the big debate should be how Eurosport Events will promote these series in future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waytogo28 Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 That, then is good to hear. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirates Of Poole Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 11 hours ago, PHILIPRISING said: HE did not and will not personally get a cut from Eurosport deal although, of course, Swindon like any other Elite League club will. Do you know how much each club will get per year from Eurosport? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Pirates Of Poole said: Do you know how much each club will get per year from Eurosport? NO but doubt it is anywhere near what they got from Sky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 On 10/7/2020 at 10:53 AM, Rob B said: Why is all the discussion about tv deals. From what I understand this announcement was that Eurosport EVENTS have taking over the running and promoting of SGP/SoN etc from BSI in 2022. I presume Eurosport will take over the tv deal aswell eventually but that is secondary and the big debate should be how Eurosport Events will promote these series in future. It looks like this assumption may be incorrect as I understand that Eurosport events have put together a tender document for the broadcast rights to Speedway GP and interestingly World Cup. These rights are for individual countries inc main Speedway nations UK,Poland,Denmark and Sweden. So possibly they have realised that better return on investment will happen if they sell the rights off on an individual basis and then show it on their own channels in countries that do not take up a broadcast rights contract like France,Holland,Spain and Turkey . The other that also has to be considered is that this tender process could just be a EU law compliance exercise to say it was put out to competition tender but Eurosport TV always have the highest bid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, flagrag said: It looks like this assumption may be incorrect as I understand that Eurosport events have put together a tender document for the broadcast rights to Speedway GP and interestingly World Cup. These rights are for individual countries inc main Speedway nations UK,Poland,Denmark and Sweden. So possibly they have realised that better return on investment will happen if they sell the rights off on an individual basis and then show it on their own channels in countries that do not take up a broadcast rights contract like France,Holland,Spain and Turkey . The other that also has to be considered is that this tender process could just be a EU law compliance exercise to say it was put out to competition tender but Eurosport TV always have the highest bid Which is exactly what i posted about on October 2nd " TV revenues will be the key. We are assuming that Eurosport being pan European will show the GP’s throughout Europe. This will not bring in revenue the same as renewing contracts with Canal plus Poland and Danish, Swedish and GB contracts. It will be interesting what they decide to do." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostwalker Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 8 hours ago, racers and royals said: Which is exactly what i posted about on October 2nd " TV revenues will be the key. We are assuming that Eurosport being pan European will show the GP’s throughout Europe. This will not bring in revenue the same as renewing contracts with Canal plus Poland and Danish, Swedish and GB contracts. It will be interesting what they decide to do." As I said before, they now have the possibility to sell subscription directly to viewers (Eurosport player/discovery play), BSI never had that possibility. They are basically cutting off one middle man (broadcasting companies like Viasat) so it will be FIM event->Eurosport-> viewers and not FIM event->BSI/IMG->Middle man->viewers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyTalk Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 Hi just been told by a BT staff member that, sometime in the future, Eurosport will no longer be available as part of BT or Sky packages (not sure about Virgin Media}. Is there anyone who can confirm, or deny this, or give any more information on this. I am wondering if it will be available independently in the same way as Premier sports. Any info appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, ShyTalk said: Hi just been told by a BT staff member that, sometime in the future, Eurosport will no longer be available as part of BT or Sky packages (not sure about Virgin Media}. Is there anyone who can confirm, or deny this, or give any more information on this. I am wondering if it will be available independently in the same way as Premier sports. Any info appreciated. Thanks It's already available independently via its Eurosport player. I believe Sky signed a long term deal with Discovery in June this year anyway. Edited October 26, 2020 by Noodles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Central Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 31 minutes ago, Noodles said: It's already available independently via its Eurosport player. I believe Sky signed a long term deal with Discovery in June this year anyway. Yes. https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/06/22/sky-and-discovery-announce-carriage-deal/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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