Tuesday, October 6th 2009
Come on England!
On Saturday instead of being able to enjoy football on the widescreen in the pub or your own front room, you may be (if you are willing to pay) crammed around your laptop watching the England v Ukraine match. England have already qualified for next years world cup but most fans will still want to watch their team in action on a decent sized tv screen.
Kentaro, the agency who own the rights to the match have defended their actions saying that represents the future of sports broadcasting. It is true that there is a rise in the amount of people watching tv shows on their computers through bbc iplayer or you tube, but these may only be 30 minute shows and not 2 hour shows, longer if you decide to watch the full commentary.
As this guardian article points out, Kentaro may end up losing money on this project (rejecting bids from BBC and ITV of up to £2 million for the match) but they will have gained a huge technical advantage on the capabilities of live sports broadcasting, that is if all goes to plan and there are no technical difficulties.
I am not a big football fan but like to watch England matches and I would personally prefer to see them on a big tv screen and not my small laptop screen.
Posted by Sally on Tuesday 6th of October 2009 at 4:57pm
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Pay £5 to watch a non-crucial England match? No thanks.
There's some interesting questions and answers on the BBC dot.life website: http://tr.im/AXKW
With interesting comments too.
Posted by Richard on Wednesday 7th of October 2009 at 12:17pm