SKY/ESPN TV Picks

[WeAreQPR12]

Another £3.8 million in TV fees.

Luvverly Jubbly. Now, where's that striker?

Spot on Nodge but we all know its going in someones back pocket. The owners are trying to squeeze profit out of it.

[LoveRs]

25% of our homes games are on TV so far.

QPR v Newcastle United
Monday 12th September - 8.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Aston Villa
Sunday 25th September - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Chelsea
Sunday 23rd October - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
Tottenham Hotspur v QPR
Sunday 30th October - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Manchester City
Saturday 5th November - 5.30pm Kick-Off - ESPN
QPR v Sunderland
Tuesday 20th December - 8.00pm Kick-Off ????

Gr8 news for the fans who have young family's like me and can't afford ST. Won't have too wait up for 8 minutes of coverage on the football league show.

[PedalR]

How does the divvyng up of TV money work? Do we get anything for the away game at Spuds? Or, are payments just based on the home TV games?

[MYU]

Sky Sports TV Listings - http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12942,00.html

ESPN - http://tv.espn.co.uk/oo/espl/live-fixtures-on-espn/

Couldn't find anything else for ESPN

[LeeCookFan]

Give that Sky have announced fixtures until the end of November and ESPN until the end of December. Does this mean we will have no other games rescheduled for TV reason for until the end of November? {Need to know so i can book holidays accordingly}

[stanistheman]

Gr8 news for the fans who have young family's like me and can't afford ST. Won't have too wait up for 8 minutes of coverage on the football league show.

Most of the games it showed less than 90 seconds of coverage. QPR were the featured game on about 8 occasions most towards the end i.e. Palace, Cardiff, Leicester, Hull, Watford.

[vblockranger]

25% of our homes games are on TV so far.

QPR v Newcastle United
Monday 12th September - 8.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Aston Villa
Sunday 25th September - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Chelsea
Sunday 23rd October - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
Tottenham Hotspur v QPR
Sunday 30th October - 4.00pm Kick-Off - Sky Sports
QPR v Manchester City
Saturday 5th November - 5.30pm Kick-Off - ESPN
QPR v Sunderland
Tuesday 20th December - 8.00pm Kick-Off ????

result!
especially since i just spent my familys walk up ticket money on a top of the range 65" 3D plasma to watch them on

[Nodge70]

How does the divvyng up of TV money work? Do we get anything for the away game at Spuds? Or, are payments just based on the home TV games?

Last season £660,000 per home game. £125,000 per away game. It has gone up slightly for this season. Can't remember off the top of my head how much by. on top of those fees there are also some ancillary payments but of course there is also a cost to the club in getting the fixtures and fittings up to scratch, lost seats for camera positions and hard wiring etc...

Can't remember the last time a newly promoted club got so many home games in the first round of picks. Sky have done us a right favour here.

[Ric-Roc]

So although we won't be on the box a lot of weeks will our fixtures still change?

I remember last year plenty of times on MOTD2 their was a near on full Premiership fixture list for a lot Sunday's even though only 2 games were shown live??

Also are we expecting more changes for December, Jan & Feb around November time?

[Nodge70]

So although we won't be on the box a lot of weeks will our fixtures still change?

I remember last year plenty of times on MOTD2 their was a near on full Premiership fixture list for a lot Sunday's even though only 2 games were shown live??

Also are we expecting more changes for December, Jan & Feb around November time?

Yep - more changes to come. Any club who is playing a team competing in the Europa League automatically has their PL fixture following the Europa League match back to the Sunday or Monday night - so this will affect PL games involving Spurs, Fulham and Stoke.

Then you have TV picks for November thru February period made in October - more picks in late January to run through to the end of March and then at the end of March they pick the last games through to the end of the season - sometimes with a bit of jiggling so the vital games are shown.

Other scenario's to add in to the mix. If Club A is due to compete in a League or FA Cup Semi Final or Final and originally had a game scheduled for live TV on the same night or weekend, SKY/ESPN can pick a replacement game with "limited" notice. Then, Club A are also entitled to have another game shown live so they don't miss a payment.

Can get extremely messy. To be fair, the PL do their best to avoid disruption for fans but at the end of the day, fans who book travel early can get stung.

[Ric-Roc]

Interesting. Cheers Nodge.

[West Acton]

Chelsea 4pm on a sunday? People drinking all day..... Very sensible....hmmmmm

Hours difference between a saturday kick off at 3pm when people will drink all day so cant see it having much of on impact with regards crowd disorder.

If it was evening kick off ala Millwall you would have a point

[PedalR]

Last season £660,000 per home game. £125,000 per away game. It has gone up slightly for this season. Can't remember off the top of my head how much by. on top of those fees there are also some ancillary payments but of course there is also a cost to the club in getting the fixtures and fittings up to scratch, lost seats for camera positions and hard wiring etc...

Can't remember the last time a newly promoted club got so many home games in the first round of picks. Sky have done us a right favour here.

Cheers for that. I totted up the Sky games and our 3 home live games is quite a healthy number.... only Spurs and Man U have more (4 games).
Arsenal, Villa, Rovers, Everton, Swansea and Albion only have 1 home game live whilst Wigan and Sunderland have zilch!

[qprjeff1882]

Hey. Ive just heard that Steve Claridge has got a job on sky and he's been asigned to cover our games. : only joking. But wouldnt surprise me one bit.