New EFL TV deal and the demise of iFollow

[radders]

www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12873679/sky-sports-agrees-new-five-year-efl-deal-over-1000-matches-per-season

Just seen this on an e-mail - not seen or heard about it before.

[sinfinbovril]

Just had a quick look and it looks like you can have a 'day membership' to watch one-offs.

I guess it means some/most of our games won't be televised?

But at least some will - still not fab for us non-Sky subscribers.

EDIT: There 552 games in a season and they will show 248: 44% of the games will be televised live. Let's call it half....

[bancroft]

Maybe they’ll use their brains and allow paid for streaming of away games. Therefore you go in person to watch the home games and when its Carlisle away on a Tuesday night it is possible to watch on telly

Assume the 3pm Saturday live ban is in place though still

[luke]

www.efl.com/news/2023/may/efl-and-sky-sports-broadcast-rights-agreement/

In fairness to the EFL, thought this Q&A article explained it quite well for their standards.

“ Under the new deal, the following will be available to view:
10 weekend games across the three divisions
All opening and final day fixtures in the Sky Bet EFL
All midweek league fixtures
All bank holiday fixtures including Easter, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day
All fixtures played in League One & Two during international breaks
All Play-Off, Carabao Cup and EFL Trophy fixtures (as above)”

I was a little worried that the Saturday 3pm kickoff would be completely ripped away but seems like a lot of the live games will be midweek, international breaks, bank holidays. I looked further down the article and it said that League One and League Two should have live coverage for approx 16 matches a season, which is roughly 35% of games.

Also unless we magically bring back Jimmy the Sky Sports pundit as a manager I doubt we will get chosen very often for TV anyway

[jeanf]

I was told by the club a new app is replacing ifollow which should give us a better service. But live matches look like will get on Sky or Now TV. I just hope we can see all our usual matches and get the full match replays.

[luke]

Apr 13, 2024 18:18:08 GMT jeanf said:

I was told by the club a new app is replacing ifollow which should give us a better service. But live matches look like will get on Sky or Now TV. I just hope we can see all our usual matches and get the full match replays.

That's good to hear

[bennyboy]

Apr 13, 2024 7:39:03 GMT luke said:

www.efl.com/news/2023/may/efl-and-sky-sports-broadcast-rights-agreement/

In fairness to the EFL, thought this Q&A article explained it quite well for their standards.

“ Under the new deal, the following will be available to view:
10 weekend games across the three divisions
All opening and final day fixtures in the Sky Bet EFL
All midweek league fixtures
All bank holiday fixtures including Easter, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day
All fixtures played in League One & Two during international breaks
All Play-Off, Carabao Cup and EFL Trophy fixtures (as above)”

I was a little worried that the Saturday 3pm kickoff would be completely ripped away but seems like a lot of the live games will be midweek, international breaks, bank holidays. I looked further down the article and it said that League One and League Two should have live coverage for approx 16 matches a season, which is roughly 35% of games.

Also unless we magically bring back Jimmy the Sky Sports pundit as a manager I doubt we will get chosen very often for TV anyway

They said more L1 and L2 coverage for this season than ever before. I've not seen much, only when the Prem or Championship don't play TBH.