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Well some type of good news for Newcastle and some sort of financial security for the club. From teamtwaddle.

The new TV deal which will come into effect at the start of the 2001-2002 campaign is set to net Newcastle in the region of twenty million pounds. The new package which has been signed between BskyB, ITV and NTL will give every Premiership club around #8 million but it is thought that Newcastle will earn that little bit extra, as they will be more in demand from the TV companies.

NTL, who own a percentage in Newcastle have earned the right to screen forty pay-per-view matches and the Magpies could certainly benefit from this deal as well as the coverage on Sky.

It is estimated that the club could earn up to #75 million in the next three years from television coverage alone.

The question I have is why do most clubs only recieve around 8 million quid from a combined TV package that estimated to be worth around one & a half billion ponds?

Surely as the EPL negotiated on behalf of all the EPL clubs, then I would have thought that the total package would have been divided by the duration it runs for, eg. 5 years. and then each club in the EPL gets 1 part from 21 of the yearly TV deals. The reason for dividing the yearly amount by 21. Simple, 20 clubs + the EPL governing body = 21.

Seems a fairer distribution of wealth and doesn't weigh in favour of the likes of Manure, Arse, 'pool & chewsea.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Answers

Whatever the number is Tre it's fantastic revenue as effectively it's all profit - ie. no cost involved - and goes straight to the bottom line.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

"no cost involved"????????

Overpaid players tearing up contracts, fans losing their seats to corporate hospitality, games on Monday nights, the FA cup final moved, season ticket prices ever-rising, ManU domination, all-seater grounds, grass-roots supporters alienated, lack of atmosphere, teams full of foriegn players, Andy Gray etc etc etc.......

I'd say we've payed a pretty high cost to bail out Murdoch.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000


>>>>why do most clubs only recieve around 8 million quid from a combined TV package that estimated to be worth around one & a half billion ponds?

one & a half billion PONDS?

It's no wonder the frogs are thriving at football.

I think that the #8m is United's share of the initial downpayment for the Sky deal.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000


LOL, Jonno ((-:

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Erm, isn't Newcastle bigger in demand than Arsenal, Chewsea and maybe Liverpool? Or have I missed something?

We are the second biggest club in the country by demand and I'm quite happy for the weath to favour the Toon, Man Ure and Liverpool. Who cares about the smaller clubs! We want the worlds best players eventually dont we TRE?

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000



Dread,
I think you knew what I meant, but just in case - this is revenue that has virtually no associated expense. Therefore it flows straight to be bottom line of the company's income statement as profit.
To your point, presumably you would prefer us to be back in the old Second Division with Lord Westwood running the show?

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Clarky

"presumably you would prefer us to be back in the old Second Division with Lord Westwood running the show?"

Yeah I would, I was happy then, more hair, more money, no responsibilities, ten bob to get into the Leazes, Zico Martin, peanuts tanner a bag:-) I'd swop anyday.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000


Your sounding old Dread :))

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Old 'n' knackered Gav. Been up since 4am with me 3 month old boy, having bairns puts years on you. Still I got to watch major league soccer from the Giants stadium, New Jersey on Channel 5. So I'm up to date on who are the dangermen for our pre-season tour.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Since the clubs will all have their snouts in the trough more or less equally, won't the effect be simply that we'll still be battling for players we still can't afford cos the prices have been hiked out of reach again ?

Seems to me that only the clubs that are making tons of money in other ways will be able to keep up with the prices. There's no way a selling club will keep asking prices even at today's ridiculous levels, when there's all this TV money lying around.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000



Dread,
Sweet dreams mate - didn't mean to be so caustic in my original post!
BTW,where in the US are you living?

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Clarky, I think it's Leeds in the State of Yorkshire ;-)

The Channel 5 is our very own terrestrial nightmare, home of the TV Movie and also US Baseball and MLS - problem is that they never seem to know which game they are due to show until about half time when they work out who you've been watching for the last 45 minutes! Quality programing! I'll be getting used to it myself in a few weeks :-)

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000


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