02 Jan 2017 15:58:02
There are long of reasons for Scottish football being a mess, but one surely is the fact sky taking the mick. Scotland provide more than 10 percent of sky's uk viewers and should get a similar percentage of the deal that the epl gets. People might say the product is so poor we don't deserve that. But the reason the product is so poor is because we have been starved of investment. If fans in Scotland would organise and boycott sky for a while, I think they would soon see sense. At the moment we are paying into a system that is making our club into an also ran.

1.) 02 Jan 2017
02 Jan 2017 16:09:33
No one is interested in watching most Scottish Teams be it on Sky or anywhere else. At the same time the majority of EPL Games are sold out each week and Newcastle tends to sell out each of their home games.

Where I would suggest we should see some quality is in what the Championship etc., in England gets from TV Revenue.

Of course if they let teams do there own deals that would inevitably be best for rangers and celtic and, to a lesser degree to Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen.

2.) 02 Jan 2017
02 Jan 2017 16:12:07
A lot of the sky games are on BT now mate.
I worked for Sky for 11 years and can tell you When Sky And Sentanta did there deal Sky stated the main games they were taking was the 4 old firm games then they worked out who was getting what after that this is a Fact!

3.) 02 Jan 2017
02 Jan 2017 18:35:23
The reason Sky pay so much to the EPL is that it supplies world wide coverage to over 30 countries that have large viewing audiences.
Scotland has much lower viewing figures so the revenue to our clubs reflects this.

{Ed001's Note - that is a good point TBD, companies around the world pay to take the Sky coverage. Al Jazeera for instance, they pay Sky to take the feed for their BeIn Sports channel line up. ESPN and others do the same, rather than sending cameras and technicians etc over to do the job. That is where a large part of Sky's income comes from for the coverage.}