Skate Landlady defeats Sky

[JackanorySFC]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15162241

 

What implications will this have for Prem football? My local in Botley already uses Sky Italia at a fraction of proper Skys subscription (only annoying thing is no English commentry/ analysis) so ligalising this will mean bigger chains following suit and ultimately devaluing the Sky deal meaning serious revenue implications for Prem Clubs that have "mortgaged" their futures based on Sky revenue beyond the current deal.

[Thedelldays]

she has far from defeated sky....she is the winner right now but this will change very soon

[stevegrant]

The Sky product in the UK might be devalued in pubs for the remainder of the current contract (to summer 2013), but it'll become a pan-European deal from that point onwards, so little Greek broadcasters won't have a hope in hell of getting the rights, unless they sublet from someone like Sky, ESPN or Canal+.

[Nolan]

This such a short term 'victory'. The Premiership get 1.4bn from Sky / Espn and 130 million from the rest of Europe.

 

I can see the Premier League going as far as just cancelling the contracts of any broadcaster whose feed make it to the UK on the cheap iminently, making any of the foreign box subscriptions worthless. In the end that's short term pain for long term gain.

[dronskisaint]

Pasted from the Yahoo site largely for the comment highlighted but a sensible reflecton and analogy nevertheless and I hate Murdoch to the degree I won't have Sky or buy his sh*tty rags:-

 

'And then there is the landlady of a humble south coast pub who is taking the tyranny of the Premier League to task in the European Court of Justice.

 

What with it being an international week, the story has been like manna from heaven for football columnists who would otherwise have had to make a big song-and-dance about Danny Welbeck calling team-mate Rio Ferdinand - missing from the current England squad - "a Rolls-Royce of a defender".

 

Karen Murphy, who runs the Red White & Blue pub in a down-at-heel area of Portsmouth - known to locals as 'Portsmouth' - was claiming victory yesterday after the ECJ backed her right to use a Greek satellite box to show Premier League football to her punters at a cheaper rate than she would have to pay Sky. While the subscription with Nova actually costs more than a Sky package, doing so means she can screen 3pm kick-offs, something which has long been protected to safeguard against attendances dropping at games across the board.

 

Murphy's argument is that a broadcasting company should not be able to dictate how much she has to pay for their service when she can get the product from another, foreign-based provider for far less per game.

 

While it is easy to sympathise with anyone trying to run a pub when they are closing up and down the country at such an alarming rate in these difficult times, this is the reality of product licensing. Imagine how Fuller's, the brewery which owns her pub, would feel if she started selling Young's bitter on tap because she could get barrels of it on the cheap.

 

Love it!

[Thedelldays]

I know this pub..i sure its on your right as you come in on the flyover into dog-shyt city...?

 

looks rough as fook