DFL and the tv deal

[oldparish]

On www.bundesliga.de I've just read that the pay tv channels will no longer have the monopoly rights to the Bundesliga.Can anybody expain what we can see for free on any weekend on free tv.Does this mean I can cancel my Setanta subscription?

[Steehaan]

Friday: 18.00 2. Bundesliga (3 games), 20.30 1. Bundesliga (1 game)
Saturday: 13.00 2. Bundesliga (1 game), 15.30 1. Bundesliga (5 games)
Sunday: 12.30 2. Bundesliga (5 games), 14.00 or 15.00 1. Bundesliga (2 games), 17.00 1. Bundesliga (1 game)

If the national team has got a game on wednesday (thats 8 times) then the friday game of the 1. Bundesliga is live on saturday evening (20.30) in free tv and the games on friday of the 2. Bundesliga are on 20.30

thats what I heard

Whats "Setanta" ? Is that like Premiere here in Germany?

[oldparish]

Setanta is a sports network out of the Republic of Ireland.If you subscribe you get Setanta Sports 1& 2 plus a golf channel, Arsenal tv, LFC TV and a few others as well.Setanta sports 1&2 are the channels that show the BuLi live or as live.They also show the Scottish premier league ,the Irish league ,Rugby,Cricket,Horse racing and the premiership in England.The nearest to Premiere,though,is Sky.They are the ones responsible for all the money swilling around in the english game.Will the DFL and therefore the clubs get more money with this deal?Perhaps then then German football will be able to compete a little better with the English league and possibly in the future the Russian

[Steehaan]

The DFL will get 500 million euro from the company "Sirius" of Leo Kirch

We hope that alle will be good (sry I don't know how to say) because the Kirch-Group was in de 90s near the insolvency

[oldparish]

I remember that Kirch thing.I hope that we (Borussia) will get something from it. What happened with Arena?I thought that they had the rights to the Bundesliga.Then all of a sudden it was back on Pemiere.Sky don't do the Konferenz thing.You have watch what they put on.Also you can't watch the game of your own choice,as I believe Premiere do.

[Steehaan]

Right, at Premiere we can watch all games live and in the Konferenz
From this summer we can also watch all DFB-Pokal games like Bundesliga, it's so great

Arena has gone... how you say? broke or bankrupt? And Premiere bought the rights back

[oldparish]

I'm extremely jealous.I asked about getting Premiere in the UK and they told me you can only receive it (legally) with a German,Austrian or Swiss address.Oh,and bankrupt is the right word.I watched the Konferenz coverage in a bar at Cologne railway station when I was over for the Freiburg game.It's a great idea.I think sky won't do individual games (live) here because most people would only watch the "big four".Also it would be cheaper to stay at home than actually go to a game.You are not talking Bundesliga prices when you want to go to a Premier league game in England.

[frank_schleck]

Yes, I heard Premier League tickets are from 40 pounds (55 Euros) up.
Borussia´s VIP-Tickets cost 120 pounds and the most expensive seat is cheaper than the cheapest Premier League ticket. Horrible, poor you.

[oldparish]

Premier league prices don't really bother me frank,because,as Der Tiger said "Mein Herz schlaegt nur fuer Moenchengladbach".

[berti mac]

the most expensive seat is cheaper than the cheapest Premier League ticket. Horrible, poor you.

well, not quite true.
the london clubs - arsenal, spurs, chelsea, west ham etc - are very expensive and also some of the (ahem) big clubs too.
but at blackburn rovers, tickets are 15 pounds per game for 5500 seats. ok, they are a bit more when man united, liverpool, chelsea and arsenal play, but also gladbach charge more for the games against Koln and Bayern?
and the 15pounds is for ALL other games- man city, everton, newcastle, aston villa etc etc

the reason? well london is a city of 9 million people, some of them quite well off. blackburn is a town of less than 100 000 with a lot of poverty and other teams close by.

so, hats off to rovers for trying to keep football in the reach of normal people..
(by the way, not just blackburn rovers. wigan athletic and bolton have done similar things)

[oldparish]

Can someone please explain what all the fuss in Kicker (28/07) under the headline"Schaut der Fan in die Roehre? is all about.I've tried to make it out but there is so much and there are words there I can't even find in my dictionary.

[HerbertLaumen]

Is the article online available?

[oldparish]

Tried to find a link for Kicker but I can't.It's a wild guess but the only thing I can think of is to Google Kicker Sportmagazin or Olympia -Verlag.I'd be grateful for anything you can work out,Herbert.

[HerbertLaumen]

I'm sorry, OP, i can't find anything. Maybe you can make a scan of the article?

[oldparish]

I'll ask my niece,'coz I haven't a clue.Hopefully she can do something.