I'm doing some work on an essay and need some information and was wondering if any of you could maybe help.
Would any of you have any links or journal articles about how TV has changed football?
and does anyone have any stats for how many games are on live TV each season etc..?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, B)

Too many...

more people started watching then more investments and sponserships started coming in so then they higher the ticket prices and try and get more families to come to matches and so on..................

The main change is that the TV audience in Asia is now a bigger priority than the match going fan.

If you can find it online there was a show on Sky one called “How TV Changed Football Forever".
It was a great show as most proper supporters would disagree about almost every "improvement" made.
At one point they said something like “if it wasn’t for us everybody would still be standing on dilapidated terraces, eating crap pies and paying £2.50 to watch unknown local players” and I thought yeah you're right, things sure were better before you came along.

The below blog shows most of the points made.
http://broken-tv.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

And we are ment to be grateful :rolleyes: :angry:

The TV deal in this country is sold differently to most of Europe. Over here we sell the rights in a 'Premier League' package, whilst abroad individual clubs sell their games individually.

The last time it was auctioned in this country they used 6 packages, such as 30 games in one on Sunday's etc, Sky have 4 packages and Setanta have 2, 92:50 games.

Effects on football: advertising, ticket prices, peoples knowledge of football, the top of football (Division 1) seen and heard a lot more than previously when it was more local football, and the subsequant increase in money to the top of the game, not the bottom.

Hope this helps :)

Here in Italy the stadiums are more and more empty.

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