by Owzat » Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:17 pm
GRAHAM01 wrote:GYBS wrote:its to protect the clubs and ensure fans keep going to the matches , so they decided long time ago to never televise on english telly any 3pm kick offs - i am in total agreement with it as well .
i don't think it would stop fans going to the top teams but lower team would be hit big time if they started to show them at 3pm, it is a shame though as it would be a lot better for those who are not able to get to the ground
Since TV has too much control over football scheduling, I think the intent of not televising 3pm matches has been negated. Now you can watch two matches on a Saturday, one at lunchtime and one at teatime. As they are often Premiership matches then you will invariably develop more "Premiership fans" who disregard their more local clubs or simply can't afford the time or money the long round-trips to see their side play require.
So now you can't watch footy on TV at 3pm on a Saturday, but you can at :
Sat 12.45
Sat 17.35
Sun 13.30
Sun 16.00
Mon 20.00
Tue 19.45
Tue 20.00
Wed 19.45
Wed 20.00
Thur 19.45
and I'm sure there's quite often a Friday slot, for conference football? So you could watch eight or nine TV games a week, how is that going to make people go at 3pm Saturday because there isn't a match televised then? s*y and Sultana simply exploit demand, fill the schedules and I doubt they care that they can't show football in ONE timeslot a week. You can find it quite rare to get more than four or five Premiership matches on a Saturday at 3pm, some of that due to UEFA competitions midweek.
I may be wrong, but aren't the TV channels required to show each team a certain number of times this season? Could they be changing our fixtures due to the teams we're playing not having been shown live often enough? Although with the number of televised games you'd think they must have enough to have met any such requirements by now
As for the changes to accommodate TV, surely consumer watchdogs should clamp down on any rescheduling of matches done within X weeks of the fixture itself. Some fans do have to make alternative arrangements, even local fans might have other commitments such as work that fit in with the original but not rearranged fixture.
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