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[OT-Football] Why doesn't chaos like this ever happen in American sports!
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<blockquote data-quote="MonkeyBoy" data-source="post: 157794" data-attributes="member: 1229"><p><strong>... that's NOTHING <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></strong></p><p></p><p>Scotland has it easy, in the "soccer" stakes...</p><p></p><p>There's a nice TV company here called ITV Digital, which bought the rights to transmit live football games (its a slightly odd deal, i think they bought the exclusive rights to broadcast live, all English games - or some such; someone who likes football could probably correct me here)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the point is, they bought these rights for (wait for it!) £315 million (3 years contract). That money essentially pays for English football to continue for the next 3 years; at least, it relies on that cash.</p><p></p><p>ITV Digital have now gone broke (they relied on HUGE numbers subscribing to get these matches live, hardly anybody did...) and so cannot pay (there's £175 million owed on the deal, ITV Digital have been put into administration and have working funds for, well, until MONDAY!)</p><p></p><p>This potentially means that LOTS of smaller English football lubs could go broke and close, all because ITV Digital paid over the odds for rights...</p><p></p><p>If the previous was akin to the NFL kicking out a couple of teams, this is akin to (mid season) all TV channels suddemly deciding they no longer needed to pay for broadcast rights...</p><p></p><p>So to answer your question;</p><p>In the US "Professional Sports" means its a sport run like a business.</p><p></p><p>In the UK "Professional Sports" just means the players get a wage packet... (Except F1, but thats a one-man empire!)</p><p></p><p>edit:</p><p></p><p>*COUGH*</p><p>forgot url - <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1896000/1896732.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1896000/1896732.stm</a></p><p>*COUGH*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MonkeyBoy, post: 157794, member: 1229"] [b]... that's NOTHING :)[/b] Scotland has it easy, in the "soccer" stakes... There's a nice TV company here called ITV Digital, which bought the rights to transmit live football games (its a slightly odd deal, i think they bought the exclusive rights to broadcast live, all English games - or some such; someone who likes football could probably correct me here) Anyway, the point is, they bought these rights for (wait for it!) £315 million (3 years contract). That money essentially pays for English football to continue for the next 3 years; at least, it relies on that cash. ITV Digital have now gone broke (they relied on HUGE numbers subscribing to get these matches live, hardly anybody did...) and so cannot pay (there's £175 million owed on the deal, ITV Digital have been put into administration and have working funds for, well, until MONDAY!) This potentially means that LOTS of smaller English football lubs could go broke and close, all because ITV Digital paid over the odds for rights... If the previous was akin to the NFL kicking out a couple of teams, this is akin to (mid season) all TV channels suddemly deciding they no longer needed to pay for broadcast rights... So to answer your question; In the US "Professional Sports" means its a sport run like a business. In the UK "Professional Sports" just means the players get a wage packet... (Except F1, but thats a one-man empire!) edit: *COUGH* forgot url - [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1896000/1896732.stm[/url] *COUGH* [/QUOTE]
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