Category: Football
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As previously noted, LeTV won the Hong Kong TV rights to the English Premier League for three seasons (starting in August 2016), and then did a deal with PCCW’s Now TV – so both will be showing the games for the next 3 years. Here’s a comparison on Premier League TV Packages in Hong Kong
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Well, I wasn’t expecting that. LeTV out-bid Cable TV and PCCW’s Now TV for English Premier League (EPL) TV rights in Hong Kong, paying US$400 million (double the value of Now TV’s current agreement). They had a big launch event this week – and then promptly sold the broadcast TV rights on to Now TV.…
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There have been ten managerial changes since the start of the current Premier League season. 9 out of 10 of the people appointed had zero management experience in the Premier League. One had managed in the Championship, and three had managed elsewhere in Europe – but of them, only Felix Magath had real experience in…
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So the English Premier League is back on Now TV. It seems to be the pattern now for it to alternate between PCCW’s Now TV and Wharf Group’s Cable TV every three years. Of course they charge you extra for the EPL. You might think that a Now Sports Megapack would cover everything, but rather…
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I wrote about the Championship merry-go-round shortly after Michael Appleton had become Blackburn’s third manager of the season in mid-January. Now’s he’s become the 32nd manager to be fired this season. Where would Blackburn be without Venky’s and their global football adviser, Shebby Singh? Don’t answer that. It was only a few weeks ago that…
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There have been three managerial changes in the Premier League this season, two of which were rather puzzling (Southampton sack Nigel Adkins and name Mauricio Pochettino as manager Rafael Benitez replaces Roberto Di Matteo as Chelsea manager), and one rather less so (Mark Hughes sacked as Queens Park Rangers manager), but there have been far …
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Last week the UK TV rights for the English Premier League were sold for £3 billion. Does that affect Hong Kong viewers? No, because the rights for other countries will be sold separately. But here’s a stupid story in the SCMP based on the incorrect assumption that international rights are included in the UK deal,…
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Ah, the FA Cup Final. Used to be the only club game played at Wembley, and the only one that was live on TV. Now we have the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley, play-off finals, the League Cup, the Charity Community Shield and I don’t know how many other matches played there. And hundreds of…
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So it’s Russia in 2018, and, er, Qatar in 2022. There has been entirely predictable outrage in England about the failure of the World Cup bid. Apparently some delegates promised they would vote for England, but then voted for someone else! Well, who could possibly have expected that? The Sun (predictably) has another angle: It’s…
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It doesn't seem that long ago that we only got one EPL game live on Saturday night. Then it became two of the 3pm kick-offs, and then (3 years ago) every single game. Perhaps even more amazing is that we now get up to 3 live games on Saturday from the Championship (the second tier…
Ordinary Gweilo 