RPNY Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 They ever gonna bother showing anymore matches?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 7 minutes ago, RPNY said: They ever gonna bother showing anymore matches?! It's hardly been a showcase for the sport, has it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPNY Posted August 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 minute ago, cityrebel said: It's hardly been a showcase for the sport, has it? Awful, been about a month now hasnt it? Not even highlight shows. Not exaclty prmoting British speedway as we need it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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old bob at herne bay Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Whatever "deal" BSPL have done with Eurosport, they have been sold a pup. Not looking good for next season , when they have the UK rights to the SGP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Well I for one am very surprised by the lack of consistent coverage by Eurosport and the haphazard scheduling.. I mean... Its not like them this is it?.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flagrag Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Really not sure why Eurosport have chosen not to broadcast a meeting tonight with so much choice of meetings, No Live sport on their channels tonight or live PL to go up against seems very strange decision to me. So we have the British final next week and then week after 23/08 they have choice of BV vs KL or Peterborough vs Wolves (But did televise A fixture) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 hours ago, flagrag said: Really not sure why Eurosport have chosen not to broadcast a meeting tonight with so much choice of meetings, No Live sport on their channels tonight or live PL to go up against seems very strange decision to me. So we have the British final next week and then week after 23/08 they have choice of BV vs KL or Peterborough vs Wolves (But did televise A fixture) Probably looked at the weather forecast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Was interested to see an ad on Sky Sports yesterday promoting The 100, as usual, but they were specially promoting the app, a bit gimmicky, as with most things Sky, but this is the kind of thing that Speedway should be looking to produce with its "broadcast partner" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 3 hours ago, old bob at herne bay said: Whatever "deal" BSPL have done with Eurosport, they have been sold a pup. Not looking good for next season , when they have the UK rights to the SGP. They don’t have UK rights for SGP yet no guarantee they will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) SGP series viewing figures have been dreadful. a few thousand at the very most. Edited August 9, 2021 by KeirStarmerFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Eurosport are going to be showing the same amount of meetings BT did,,, I don't remember all this non stop whinging about them. Should think yourselves lucky anybody is showing it 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk127 Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Perhaps even Eurosport are bored with filming the same six teams with riders who are at best second rate. As Baldyman said, lucky anyone is broadcasting this joke of a sport. Why didn’t you the BSPL try to negotiate a deal that covered the three leagues not just the so called top tier so at least a bit of variation albeit you are then left with trying to explain to the average viewer the double up/down and the same riders competing for different teams in different leagues. Yep only speedway could be lead by a bunch of inept negotiators who still believe that the U.K. side of the sport is not in need of major surgery and still don’t ask themselves why so many stadia are virtually empty on race night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHarris Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Does anyone know what the average viewing figures have been for Speedway on Eurosport so far? Perhaps it's not worth their while to do a full live broadcast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, JamesHarris said: Does anyone know what the average viewing figures have been for Speedway on Eurosport so far? Perhaps it's not worth their while to do a full live broadcast? Panthers vs Wolves on Eurosport did 45,000 viewers. Ipswich the following week did 20,000 viewers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbw Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Needs to be back on mainstream tv now that the BBC and ITV have many more channels. Eurosport and BT sport not doing the sport many favours because it's only a small audience, in comparison, that watches those channels no matter what sport is on. Speedway will be on Dave next! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris4gillian Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 8 hours ago, RPNY said: They ever gonna bother showing anymore matches?! Eurosport have exactly the same Premiership contract that BT Sports had and are televising exactly the same number of Premiership meetings. However, they haven't got any rights to Championship matches which BT Sport used to televise in the breaks in between the Premiership meetings. Therefore we are getting less speedway meetings televised, but no less Premiership meetings (plus the British Final next Monday of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 27 minutes ago, PirateShip said: Needs to be back on mainstream tv now that the BBC and ITV have many more channels. Eurosport and BT sport not doing the sport many favours because it's only a small audience, in comparison, that watches those channels no matter what sport is on. Speedway will be on Dave next! Why would BBC or ITV show it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldyman Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, chris4gillian said: Eurosport have exactly the same Premiership contract that BT Sports had and are televising exactly the same number of Premiership meetings. However, they haven't got any rights to Championship matches which BT Sport used to televise in the breaks in between the Premiership meetings. Therefore we are getting less speedway meetings televised, but no less Premiership meetings (plus the British Final next Monday of course). I don't remember BT showing any championship meetings,,, sky showed a few 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris4gillian Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, Baldyman said: I don't remember BT showing any championship meetings,,, sky showed a few There's definitely been a handful on each year in recent times, and as BT had the rights (until this year) then they must've been on BT Sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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