Monday 20 February 2012

The open league



Do you think that is acceptable to have to pay for see your football team?

Since 1997 La sexta, TV3 and Telecinco have television rights for have the permission to retransmit one match of football every weekend. The year 2014 the contract between the Liga BBVA and the channels publics will finish. Nowadays there's come a channel like Canal + o Gol TV that wants all the matches included the match that is assigned for the public.

Do you think is fair? Do you think that all the matches have to be public o private?

4 comments:

  1. People pay to go to the stadiums to watch football matches, not the ones who stay at home. These weren’t used to paying to watch their team play, and in 2 years time whey will? What is this, a joke? Football is set to become the number one sport, so these tv channels such as Gol tv or Canal+ Liga are aware of it and will use this to make money.

    Nowadays, some followers depend on football and can’t wait for a whole week to watch their team play, so what would happen if they had to pay to watch it, and not just one watch, ALL of them! Tv3 and La Sexta, amongst others, are public tv channels which usually provide a retransmission of the Spanish matches and afterwards the interviews, which is great. So, let’s now think in a futuristic way. As we are now in crisis, and they, gol tv, know some people would prefer watching football than some other activity they are paying, they believe that although citizens have to pay, they will! So what will happen with the ones who cannot afford it? Well then they’ll have to stick on to the radio, so that they can at least listen to it.

    I really think it is unfair, and that something should be done about this as there is no point on making people pay to entertain themselves. People already pay to watch it live, at the stadium, so the ones who stay at home should have the opportunity to be amazed by football too, without having to pay.

    All matches should be public, or at least the ones from the Spanish league which are every week-end. The ones which are international, such as for example the Champions League, these are during the week, mostly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so I understand that public tv channels have their schedule which they must follow.

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  2. If Spanish public channels don’t emit football how can football fans watch football matches? On the one hand I think it is normal that private channels make people pay, but on the other hand I think it is too expensive. Paying monthly fifteen Euros for watching football is too much, on top of not being able to watch all of the matches.
    It would make me happy if public television’s emitted football for free so everybody could have the chance to watch it.
    José Mª Casals

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  3. Nowadays, football is more important than we think. Football moves a huge a amount of money every week but this is possible because of the fans that see the matches every week. This is why I found normal television want to make the people pay in order to watch the matches. However, not everybody can afford to pay 15 euros per month to watch their team playing. For this reason, I find it unacceptable. Some weeks, they emit your team in Canal + and other weeks in Goltv. This means we have to pay for the two channels?
    If they make people pay, they should arrange which footbal teamms they will emit so that people could know which channel should he pay for but I consider they should emit minimum two matches a week publically so that the people who cannot afford to pay for private channels have the chance to watch football matches. If private channels continues like this they will end up with a lot of people striking for the possiblity of watching the matches publically.
    In my opinion,everything should comtinue as it is and in 2014 it should continue like this too.
    Ignacio A

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  4. In my opinion everybody have the rights to see the soccer channels because if someone doesn't have enough money to buy it, where can he see the matches? But on the other hand it's comprehensive that channels want to get rich with this soccer matches.
    What I think they can do is to sell the adverts of TV more expensive because the companies will stay pay it because lot's of people see the matches, and even more if its free.

    Alvaro Fuertes

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