AFCB Wildcat Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 21 hours ago, bigcatdiary said: Article in this weeks star entitled TV switch fears, it all adds up to the fact at present that watching the GP,s and British Premiership this year will cost everyone around £31 a month extra, best of luck with that as I for one won’t be bothering and judging by the letters accompanying it I won’t be alone as the vast majority will be doing the same. BSN for me going forward and I will be picking my meetings which I am sure will improve when the deal with Eurosport, Discovery + or TNT runs out. It's difficult keeping up with it all isn't it? I swapped from Sky go Virgin media, when it moved to BT sport. Virgin kept hiking prices, so I then swapped to BT (now EE) for my internet, phone & TV, with a sports package add on, including TNT & Discovery plus premium for £18 per month. The total package was £75. My contract lasts till October this year, so hopefully I'm good for this season at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTT Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Best thing that can happen is TNT pay to get out of the contract and all Premiership racing / GP's move to BSN. Can bump up the Premiership pass subscription, Can also do a GP pass subscribition too if BSN want to seperate the events up like they do currently with the Premiership/Championship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceBelle Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 23 minutes ago, TTT said: Best thing that can happen is TNT pay to get out of the contract and all Premiership racing / GP's move to BSN. Can bump up the Premiership pass subscription, Can also do a GP pass subscribition too if BSN want to seperate the events up like they do currently with the Premiership/Championship. According to Morris all 18 meetings will be broadcast by TNT this season 🤔 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technik Posted February 8 Report Share Posted February 8 On 2/7/2025 at 10:56 AM, W9 Lion said: At the time meetings are broadcast live there will be 8 minutes of ads per hour(between 6pm-11pm). So you have to expect a meeting to last a minimum of 20 minutes longer plus 30 seconds intro and outro per ad break. Speedway is a sport made for TV but I fear not live, its needs to be a hour prepacked programme, covering a couple of meetings and a couple of additional races of incident. Dont expect all 15 heats from a meeting they would drop the poor ones. Now with the limited concentration span of Z's & Alpha's a 60 second race is the ideal length of time to appeal to a new younger generation of fans I agree 100%. live speedway of league meetings is not the best way to help our sport & that a magazine style format would be a better way forward. Along the lines of Match Of The Day with studio pundits showing & talking about the weeks events over a 1.5 hour time programme to show the best races from verious meetings & previewing coming ones 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveWayne Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 On 2/7/2025 at 2:05 PM, TTT said: Best thing that can happen is TNT pay to get out of the contract and all Premiership racing / GP's move to BSN. Can bump up the Premiership pass subscription, Can also do a GP pass subscribition too if BSN want to seperate the events up like they do currently with the Premiership/Championship. That all depends on your personal situation. I don't have a laptop, just a desktop PC, and I don't have a smart TV, so watching it on BSN would mean me and my other half squeezing into my office to watch it. The TV package I have through Virgin includes all the sports channels - Sky, TNT, Eurosport, etc. - so if the GPs and live Premiership matches move to TNT it won't cost me any more than it does now and I can still watch it from the comfort of my sofa. While some are complaining about the cost of TNT, the move to BSN would be costly to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIRKYLANE Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 (edited) After a very long period of using Eurosport, I have cancelled my Discovery. Eurosport was reasonably priced.. but having to pay a premium price when all I Want is Eurosport is definitely not happening. Hopefully, Quest will still run on normal Tv. Edited February 10 by KIRKYLANE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIRKYLANE Posted yesterday at 09:16 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 09:16 AM Good to see Premiership speedway will still be on quest free to air. Hope that will include the sgps 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted yesterday at 09:49 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 09:49 AM On 2/7/2025 at 2:05 PM, TTT said: Best thing that can happen is TNT pay to get out of the contract and all Premiership racing / GP's move to BSN. Can bump up the Premiership pass subscription, Can also do a GP pass subscribition too if BSN want to seperate the events up like they do currently with the Premiership/Championship. Why would they have to pay to get out of the contract? As rights holders they could choose not to broadcast it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundTheBoards Posted yesterday at 12:10 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:10 PM 2 hours ago, SJA said: Why would they have to pay to get out of the contract? Because that's what a contract is. If I take a 2-year mobile phone contract, I still have to pay it even if I never make a phone call. However if I want to switch elsewhere they may give me a bit of discount if I want to pay it off early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted yesterday at 12:17 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:17 PM 2 hours ago, SJA said: Why would they have to pay to get out of the contract? As rights holders they could choose not to broadcast it. Sky paid British Speedway to get out of what was left of their contract to show Speedway... I presume it was much cheaper to do so than cover the remaining meetings in the agreement... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunce Posted yesterday at 05:51 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 05:51 PM On 1/31/2025 at 11:40 AM, AceBelle said: 28th Feb it will go off I too have sky q which gets you Discovery + sports free but all Sport on that is going to TNT hence £30 fee 🤔🙈 If that's the case then they can stuff it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceBelle Posted yesterday at 07:28 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 07:28 PM 1 hour ago, Bunce said: If that's the case then they can stuff it! sign of the times sadly !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted 12 hours ago Report Share Posted 12 hours ago 21 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said: Because that's what a contract is. If I take a 2-year mobile phone contract, I still have to pay it even if I never make a phone call. However if I want to switch elsewhere they may give me a bit of discount if I want to pay it off early. My understanding based on a conversation with someone in the "meeja" is that their is no minimum number of meetings that they have to broadcast so they could just sit on the rights until they expire and not show league speedway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago To take a positive, at least the British Speedway & SGP rights are on the same channel, even if it has gone up to £30.99 p/m. Imagine if British Speedway was on Sky and SGP on TNT, that'd be nearly a £50 subscription fee! It's hard to see the SGP (SoN etc) being shown anywhere else as WBD own the staging and TV rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundTheBoards Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago 58 minutes ago, SJA said: My understanding based on a conversation with someone in the "meeja" is that their is no minimum number of meetings that they have to broadcast so they could just sit on the rights until they expire and not show league speedway. Read my post again. As I said, I can have a mobile phone contract, and never make a phone call. I still have to pay up the contract. You were suggesting that if they don't show any meetings, they don't have to pay the contract up. You are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago 1 hour ago, RoundTheBoards said: Read my post again. As I said, I can have a mobile phone contract, and never make a phone call. I still have to pay up the contract. You were suggesting that if they don't show any meetings, they don't have to pay the contract up. You are wrong. No I am not. I'm suggesting that by not showing any league racing they would save the broadcast cost and satellite hire costs. The final rights payment was made some time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoundTheBoards Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago 9 minutes ago, SJA said: No I am not. I'm suggesting that by not showing any league racing they would save the broadcast cost and satellite hire costs. The final rights payment was made some time ago. So first you claim they don't need to pay up the contract, now you claim they have paid up the contract. Confused much? Okayyyyyyyyy champ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, RoundTheBoards said: So first you claim they don't need to pay up the contract, now you claim they have paid up the contract. Confused much? Okayyyyyyyyy champ. 1 hour ago, RoundTheBoards said: So first you claim they don't need to pay up the contract, now you claim they have paid up the contract. Confused much? Okayyyyyyyyy champ. i actually typed why would they have to pay out the contact? They wouldn't have to pay as no payment is due. And on a second point of clarification I am not a Champ but a retired Barrister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago I think we have our first barney of the year! Get in 👍🏿😂 Looking forward to getting involved in one myself soon 😍 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W9 Lion Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago 48 minutes ago, IainB said: I think we have our first barney of the year! Get in 👍🏿😂 Looking forward to getting involved in one myself soon 😍 Here for whenever you need me Iain. Lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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