Does anyone think there will be any games shown on TV this season

nicky27

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Thread starter #1
As per title! When I renewed my subscription in May, they told me they would have EIHL but they probably just wanted me to rejoin!
 

Wannabe2

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#2
Can’t see the greatest sport on the planet being televised, British TV companies ain’t that clever unfortunately, more chance of bog snorkelling being shown as they have a huge worm audience apparently. We live in hope but I would say don’t hold your breath sadly.
 

Diafol

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#4
I don't think the TV companies are solely to blame.
Why "give away" the product when you can squeeze £15 a week out of fans for 1 webcast ?

I've said many times that an NHL.TV style subscription is the way to go.
All games available for a monthly fee.
I'd sign up immediately if it ever happened.
Sadly I don't think it will.
 

Wannabe2

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#5
Unfortunately some clubs are far behind with their coverage, and some you wouldn’t even want to pay for it, but it would have to be in house like the webcasts are and who wants to watch 10 games a week. Can’t see it myself people want to pick and choose what they watch, the best coverage by a country mile with the best pictures, replays, and the best commentry of the lot is Sheffield there’s is truly Broadcast Quality.
 

Diafol

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#6
I wouldn't watch all of them, but it would be nice to subscribe to watch all our away games for example.

I have NHL.TV but I don't watch every team's 80-odd games :)
 

E.D.S.

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#7
Why don’t they just try it? Take a risk for a season see if it works. If it doesn’t, undo it but at least try something different. I’d tune in for a few Nott V Sheff or a Sheff v Belfast game. They tried fleecing fans at the covid playoffs and that didn’t work, but at least they tried it.
 
#8
I wonder what people would consider an acceptable fee for a season pass for example? One comparison perhaps is the British Speedway Network. A season pass is £250 for all matches (approx 60 streams). I don’t know how the money is distributed between the clubs for one point.
 
#9
I wonder what people would consider an acceptable fee for a season pass for example? One comparison perhaps is the British Speedway Network. A season pass is £250 for all matches (approx 60 streams). I don’t know how the money is distributed between the clubs for one point.
I suspect you've probably hit the nail on the head as why it isn't done that way. If 50% of the viewers on a given evening are watching a Sheffield v Belfast game, and 2% are watching Fife v Coventry, do the clubs still get an equal percentage? In a league that has shown the ability to be as inept as the EIHL has the clear capability of doing in certain aspects, would they even think to get someone in who could tell them that info?

There would need to be a way to put blackouts in place, so if a Devils home game falls 10% for instance below its normal figure for a particular game, then the stream isn't shown live due to ticket sales. There would be no point putting a geography related blackout in place. If that made a difference to the streams available I'd tell it I'm a Glasgow fan and be able to watch any Devils game I wanted.

I think there would be enough interest in the product to make it work, the logistics of how the money would be divided are likely a prime cause of it not happening. The bigger clubs would want the lions share.
 

E.D.S.

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#10
Yeah. It’s not easy but still worth trying something in my opinion. I believe the playoff revenue is split evenly between all clubs even thought Fife might bring a 100 fans and Nottingham bring 1500.
 
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