Televised Game Checklist

[gbems92]

Add 3 games on sky for the play offs!

 

[ftg]

Sky Sports will announce four more Championship matches to be shown live on television over the final two weekends of the season.
Two games will be screened live on Sky on the penultimate weekend of the season, with the possible time slots being Friday 24th April (7:45pm), Saturday 25th April (12:15pm) and Monday 27th April (7:45pm).

Sky will make the decision on which two Championship matches will be shown in those slots on Monday 16th March.

Hope it's not us, particularly looking forward to Reading and much prefer my games at 3pm on Saturdays. Looking at the fixture list that weekend:

Sheff Wed V Leeds
Birmingham V Charlton
Bournemouth V Bolton
Brighton V Watford
Cardiff V Blackpool
Fulham V Middlesbrough
Huddersfield V Blackburn
Ipswich V Nottm Forest
Millwall V Derby
Reading V Brentford
Rotherham V Norwich
Wigan V Wolves

Annoyingly no top of the table clashes that would be obvious picks ahead of us. Possibly Ipswich V Nottm Forest, but I suspect sky would see Forest out of the promotion race by now.

If I had to guess now, I'd wager on them picking Millwall V Derby & Fulham V Middlesbrough. Two teams at the top with decent home crowds, both playing away. Makes viewing figures easy money for sky.

 

[WisBee]

Sky Sports will announce four more Championship matches to be shown live on television over the final two weekends of the season.
Two games will be screened live on Sky on the penultimate weekend of the season, with the possible time slots being Friday 24th April (7:45pm), Saturday 25th April (12:15pm) and Monday 27th April (7:45pm).

Sky will make the decision on which two Championship matches will be shown in those slots on Monday 16th March.




Two key Championship encounters on the final day of the season (Saturday 2nd May) will be played out in front of Sky cameras, but they will not be moved and all games will kick-off at 12:15pm.

Selections for the final day will be made after matches on Monday 27th April.

Read more at http://www.football-league.co.uk/ne...ship-matches-2292655.aspx#mzysMAjMS1W0XgA4.99

.................................is that usual procedure that 2 games are shown live on the last weekend? - if that is the case, and of course depending upon results in the meantime, I'd guess that BFC v Wigan and Wolves v Millwall might be the obvious choices, given that those are the only two final matches that (currently) affect both top/play-offs and bottom of the league............................

 

[Judio1999]

Yes Sky have done it at least the last 3 Years

 

[Judio1999]

It is promotion or play offs they will show
Birmingham last day escape was not televised

 

[Houghton Bee]

Dont sky show a few games 'via the red button' on the last day?

 

[nick logan]

It is promotion or play offs they will show
Birmingham last day escape was not televised

Scenes when Caddis scored !

 

[Judio1999]

Dont sky show a few games 'via the red button' on the last day?

As stated above they can only show 2 on last day
Now they have 5 channels and the Premier League is on BT on Sat 1245
They should be both available on Sky Sports main channels

 

[buzzybees]

As long as the play off final is on SKY then we can see Derby and Watford sweat it out.

 

[Judio1999]

Sky Sports will announce four more Championship matches to be shown live on television over the final two weekends of the season.
Two games will be screened live on Sky on the penultimate weekend of the season, with the possible time slots being Friday 24th April (7:45pm), Saturday 25th April (12:15pm) and Monday 27th April (7:45pm).

Sky will make the decision on which two Championship matches will be shown in those slots on Monday 16th March.

The KO times have been selected as Sat 25th 12.15pm & Mon 27th 8.00pm. Which fixtures will be confirmed next week

 

[Mr Tree]

:yuck:

Friday please. boo to midday games.

btw i noticed that Bees-Forest has been chosen as the Easter Monday game for worldwide audience and FLS Show highlights, meaning it'll be on streaming. looking forward to that, but lord only knows why Middlesbro-Wigan got the Friday shout ahead of the mental scenes at Craven Cottage - i'd have given my right arm to watch that game live, but alas, it won't happen :sad:

 

[bone1]

Bournemouth vs Bolton switched to monday 27th April and Brighton vs. WAtford brought forward to 12.15 on the Saturday. Should mean our game away to Reading remains at 3pm KO.

 

[Bee4ever]

Very unlikely I know, but Reading could be FA Cup finalists when we play them on 25th. Sky may want to televise our game for that reason.

 

[Judio1999]

No
As posted above Sky have selected Watford and Bournemouth

The 54th and 55th TV games (the last 2 as per the contract )
Will be shown at 1215 on May 2nd

 

[Judio1999]

53 out of 55 games chosen

10 DER
9 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 CHA MIL WIG
1 BURN POOL HUD REA ROT

 

[Judio1999]

Here is the final split for the season
Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading chosen
Blackburn picked on first Friday of season and not again until this Saturday

11 DER
10 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 BURN CHA MIL REA WIG
1 POOL HUD ROT

 

[Judio1999]

New Tv deal starts next season
No details of split of the matches

Likely to be midweek games as Sky have no European football next season

112 games live (don't know how many Championship )
This year 75 (55 Championship )

 

[alikat]

Here is the final split for the season
Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading chosen
Blackburn picked on first Friday of season and not again until this Saturday

11 DER
10 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 BURN CHA MIL REA WIG
1 POOL HUD ROT

Interesting - effectively the other teams in the top 8 appeared between 6 and 11 times and we were shown 3 times. Sky are nothing if not fair, are they?

 

[ftg]

Interesting - effectively the other teams in the top 8 appeared between 6 and 11 times and we were shown 3 times. Sky are nothing if not fair, are they?

Let's enjoy being under the radar whilst we still can. I'd much rather an all-dayer on the ale for a saturday 3pm KO than having to race from work to GP for an evening kick off with all my work stuff on me.

 

[bees66]

Here is the final split for the season
Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading chosen
Blackburn picked on first Friday of season and not again until this Saturday

11 DER
10 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 BURN CHA MIL REA WIG
1 POOL HUD ROT

Bournemouth didn't lose one game when they were shown live on sky this season..

 

[ladbroke]

Here is the final split for the season
Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading chosen
Blackburn picked on first Friday of season and not again until this Saturday

11 DER
10 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 BURN CHA MIL REA WIG
1 POOL HUD ROT

Yet the top two teams shown have only just potentially finished above us.
Hard to work out their reasonings for not showing us really.

 

[Guildford Bee]

Yet the top two teams shown have only just potentially finished above us.
Hard to work out their reasonings for not showing us really.

Probably because our support is smaller and therefore by their rationale, fewer people we want to watch which will affect their viewing figures and thus ability to charge advertisers what they please.

Money, in other words.

 

[PhilE]

There may be an element having to plan ahead also.

We were not 'a top 8 side' before the season started and by the time we were mixing it they were into planning January. Let's see what they make of us next season.

 

[Judio1999]

If you look at the start of this thread it has all the initial games announced

Only when it got to December did they change to concentrate on the Top 8 who were doing well rather than the clubs who could pull in most viewers

The Contract said they had to show each club at home once

They appeared to get that clause completed by early December

 

[bees66]

There may be an element having to plan ahead also.

We were not 'a top 8 side' before the season started and by the time we were mixing it they were into planning January. Let's see what they make of us next season.

I think Bournemouth have been shown 6 times at home this season.. I bet they weren't a top 8 neither..

 

[Judio1999]

Fri Oct 31 v Brighton - Local derby and the mandatory home game
Fri Jan 30 v Watford - Top of table clash
Sat Mar 14 v Middlesbrough's - Top of table clash
Mon Apr 27 v Bolton - Win to get promotion

Away
Sat Sep 20 v Watford - Home game selected for Watford
Fri Mar 6 v Fulham - Gave us all a laugh
Fri Apr 3 v Ipswich - Top of table clash
Fri Apr 10 v Brighton - They were top

 

[Cowlick94]

Sorry, but Bournemouth v Brighton is not a 'local derby'. They're 100 odd miles apart.

Almost the same as saying us vs Birmingham, say, is a local derby.

 

[Judio1999]

It is the South Coast Derby as far as Sky publicise it !!!

They had it live last season as well

 

[Invipai]

They as part of the contract have to show each Championship team at home at least once, so with the less glamourous teams (us, Bournemouth, Rotherham, Hudders etc) they just pick a local derby so they can sell it on that. Bournemouth don't really have one but it's as close as they'll get so it doesn't surprise me they showed that game last year, as well as this one.

They didn't pick our game with Fulham because it mattered so much, it was just they could sell it as a derby and tick our ground off the list at the same time.

 

[ladbroke]

Yet the Brentford v Fulham game (both legs) were not shown...

 

[Cowlick94]

Yet the Brentford v Fulham game (both legs) were not shown...

What? Our home game was on Sky.

 

[ladbroke]

What? Our home game was on Sky.

I was thinking of the cup game then..

 

[Boscombe Bee]

Here is the final split for the season
Blackburn v Ipswich and Derby v Reading chosen
Blackburn picked on first Friday of season and not again until this Saturday

11 DER
10 IPS
8 BOU LEE MID WOL
7 WAT
6 NOR FOR
5 FUL
4 BRI CAR
3 BIR BOL BEES SHF
2 BURN CHA MIL REA WIG
1 POOL HUD ROT

At the beginning of the season I predicted we would be on Sky less than in our League 1 promotion season. Turned out it was the same number. But then I based this prediction on us being lower to mid table, not Premiership contenders. We must have been the BBC's featured game more

 

[Invipai]

Defo, BBC have been quite good to us.

Featured Charlton (H), Hudders (A), Bourne (I think) (H), Forest (H), Wigan (H) all off the top of my head. This not counting games they showed highlights for as Sky filmed them.

Sky have to show us for 2-3 games more though, but that's because they don't have a choice