Pay For View? Why Is It Unpopular?

[piggynose]

Is £14.95 expensive? Surely its cheaper than a ticket these days.

[dannyk13]

Just that some people prefer to watch live matches.

[barry1010]

Some people expect everything for free.

[Old_Geezer]

Don't know about "expect", but why pay if one is either paying taxes for something already, or busy ignoring adverts ? It's just slinging cash away.

[woofgang]

Is it unpopular?

[bobbinwales]

A think your misunderstanding , oldgeezer. This isnt about BBC or the TV license its about providers like Sky, BT, Amazon which you can choose to pay to subscribe to or pay on a payperview basis for additional service's. Its not compulsry, its an option. You can stream for free ilegally tho and alot choose to do that rather than payperview

[ToraToraTora]

piggy, the problem is that there is still a generation alive that Pay Per View is an alien concept. Back in the day if it was on the TV then it was free and covered by the licence or adverts. That attitude is still hard to shake. I have Sky but I never pay for any of the PPV stuff mostly because I'm not that bothered and it'll be on in a few days non PPV anyway. Yes for some of the sports events £14.95 is a ton cheaper than a live ticket but then again it's nothing like a live ticket. I used to go round a mates house to watch the big boxing matches when Tyson, Benn, Eubank, et al were fighting, we'd bung a couple of quid in each and make a bash out of it.

[bednobs]

are yoy talking of football matches? I think 15 quid is very expensive for a match with no atmosphere, and no punditary or build up

[ichkeria]

I think you do get punditry and build up. You certainly did when they had it years ago.
Streaming doesn’t have that.
It feels wrong to be doing this at the moment tho when people can’t get to games at all. I’d like to think they’d reconsider.

[10ClarionSt]

I think it's too expensive. The EPL should have their own channel whereby subscribers can pick any match for a monthly fee, with a minimum 12 month contract. There was talk of them doing this about two years ago. The monthly fee was going to be £8 and you could pick any match you wanted. I'm sure that would be a winner for them and would take Sky and BT out of the equation. The thing is, the EPL know how much they can generate from contracts with the others. Would they get enough subscribers to their scheme that would outwiegh the revenue from Sky and BT? Not to mention moverseas broadcasters.

[Old_Geezer]

You merely point out that I understand perfectly. It's amazing that companies such as Sky, BT, Amazon find their TV business model worked and they found folk actually willing to pay extra just to have even more choice of stuff to watch. (But in fairness some of those broke into the market after it had been created.)

[ichkeria]

They know perfectly well that fans of West Brom and Burnley, say, will be tempted (even at 5.15 on a weekday) to fork out to watch their team.

[10ClarionSt]

I think the punditry and build up are a waste of money.
It's money for old rope, although I don't blame the retired pro's for doing it. It's dead easy money for nothing and doesn't add anyhting to the event. People only watch it to see the likes of Roy Keen and Jamie Carragher have a verbal dust up. Maybe even to see someone spitting at each other. Well, yer know.

[ichkeria]

You aren't paying for the punditry and buld-up, but on the other hand if you are paying £15 you expect a bit more for that than just the game.
My team have been streamed by the BBC several times this season: no build-up, no punditry, no half-time analysis (like Liechtenstein v Andorra for example on Sky's red button :-) )
However although it's all free, I do miss that part of it.

[douglas9401]

"Punditry", excellent. :-)

[Ken4155]

I never watch the 'punditry' when watching live games. All they do is; pre match - tell us what we are likely to see. Half time - tell us what we have just witnessed during the first half and what both managers ought to be saying during their half-time team-talk. Full time - again tell us what we have just seen, analyse each and every mistake by defenders and goalkeepers, not to mention refs. And all in that smug, conceited manner which suggests they never put a foot wrong in their playing days.
As for the PPV price? If someone is used to paying £40 and upwards to watch their team play live, week after week, then £15 is cheap even without the 'live atmosphere'. I personally use one of the illegal free streams, as do many, many others.

[ichkeria]

We always get dodgy posts to our facebook page advertising Al-Javirus's free stream or some such.
Quite funny when the Beeb are doing it for nowt :-)