end of free football in china

[GOAAAAL]

according to a news snippet in the glasgow evening times newspaper china will no longer receive free premiership football. will this have any effect on our vewing from next season ?? :eek:

[fractured1]

There may well be less streams, but I'd expect the true football fans in China to carry on putting matches on P2P.

"The fans will have to endure the pain of the change," WinTV chief executive Song Zheng, who refused to disclose the fee his company paid, told a news conference on Monday. "Let's say goodbye to free Premier League. No more free lunch in the future."


Song, whose station has just 40,000 subscribers, said he was confident of winning over enough viewers among Chinese obsessed with football and the English top flight.

Sounds like Guangdong are going to become the $ky $ports of China. Football for the privileged. £12/month is steep in this country imo.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/footballNews/idUKPEK35224520070213

[TomatoQueen]

I pay a ridiculous amount of money to see EPL games (well, to assure myself of seeing at least some TOON games), and find that most of my viewing is done through the links provided here. If it turns out that this change becomes a problem next season, I'd be willing to pay for viewing here.

Yes of course this has been a free site, but planning for the worst-case well in advance can be a useful thing.

Now if somebody would just put a timer feature in the players so I could....:D

[rooster1]

I hope this isn't true!! If it is let's hope our Chinese friends
can work something out for the fsicrew, FOC of course.8)

Worst case scenario if they do have to buy TV rights
then it may well be cheap,If that's so we might have to subscribe
from them, it's got to be cheaper than Blighty.

Let's hope the advertisers pay for the rights and we can
resume normal service, right fsicrew.;) 8) :D

[mad-dog]

:eek: I pay a ridiculous amount of money to see EPL games (well, to assure myself of seeing at least some TOON games), and find that most of my viewing is done through the links provided here. If it turns out that this change becomes a problem next season, I'd be willing to pay for viewing here.

Yes of course this has been a free site, but planning for the worst-case well in advance can be a useful thing.

Now if somebody would just put a timer feature in the players so I could....


never never never never sorry but never will this site charge we will find a way round any problems that come up but we will never charge all we ask every now and again is for a donation for server costs .

we will not charge:D

[julioarca]

As Mad Dog has just said chaps, The whole ethos of this site, If you care to look into our history, Is against pay sites. This will never become one, We would sooner give it up, And that ain't about to happen

[TheChimp]

Doesnt this only effect China though. ESPN Star Sports would still continue to show the EPL through South East Asia but they wouldnt have the rights in China.

[r10t3r]

Doesnt this only effect China though. ESPN Star Sports would still continue to show the EPL through South East Asia but they wouldnt have the rights in China.

At the end of the day, whilst there's a site to put links on, and a person to stream, its always going to be around.

[FSi Team]

At the end of the day, whilst there's a site to put links on, and a person to stream, its always going to be around.
amen brother!!

[FreeTV4all]

well the FA made a 900 million € with Asia for the next years, the have to win back the money somehow

its like the yanks strategy ... first get people hooked for free and then let them pay for it

redicoulous ... i don't think we have to fear the games not being on P2PTV

[churner1]

:eek:


never never never never sorry but never will this site charge we will find a way round any problems that come up but we will never charge all we ask every now and again is for a donation for server costs .

we will not charge:D

Well said mate. I`m sure you`ll never be short of donations.Everybody keep the faith!

[r10t3r]

amen brother!!

Thank you sir! :D

[Veldrin]

Heh this was in an Australian paper the other day http://www.theage.com.au/news/soccer/rush-to-block-web-broadcast-of-soccer-final/2007/02/17/1171405502827.html

[Raff67]

Heh this was in an Australian paper the other day http://www.theage.com.au/news/soccer/rush-to-block-web-broadcast-of-soccer-final/2007/02/17/1171405502827.html

Obviously the lawyers didnt get the link in question taken down because it still works, shame.:lol:

[Veldrin]

Haha yup, they're still pissed too lol

[ilan]

With over a billion people in China I'm sure at least a few of them will be able to figure something out for their football-loving buddies overseas.

[lumberjack]

Anyone heard any further news about this?

I'm sure we are due another news report about how people watching football on the internet is taking money away from sly, sorry the game.

[FSi Team]

its still and open/shut door.. where one closes another opens

[owls head]

well the FA made a 900 million € with Asia for the next years, the have to win back the money somehow

its like the yanks strategy ... first get people hooked for free and then let them pay for it

redicoulous ... i don't think we have to fear the games not being on P2PTV


As a Yank who just discovered this site, I can tell you I pay my cable provider to watch my home town teams in MLB, NHL and NBA. Alas... No MLS team in Philly... yet... The NFL is the only US league that you don't have to pay to watch the local team... as of today anyway...

I also pay to watch some Prem Games on Fox Soccer Channel as well as just to watch Footie in general on GOLTV as well as some Spanish Channels in the Philadelphia area that carry soccer/football...

Anyways... very cool site! I used it the other day to watch the US U-20 Nats play Uruguay in FIFA U-20 WC... My Nats crashed and burned today vs. Austria but was able to find that game on a Spanish TV channel...

[RT87]

As a Yank who just discovered this site, I can tell you I pay my cable provider to watch my home town teams in MLB, NHL and NBA. Alas... No MLS team in Philly... yet... The NFL is the only US league that you don't have to pay to watch the local team... as of today anyway...

I also pay to watch some Prem Games on Fox Soccer Channel as well as just to watch Footie in general on GOLTV as well as some Spanish Channels in the Philadelphia area that carry soccer/football...

Anyways... very cool site! 8)

you can watch goltv for free using TVU, just to let you know from now. welcome to the site.

[owls head]

Thanks LL - Just added TVU and have picked up SopCast as well as PPMate and TVAnts over the last couple of days...

Know this is not the forum for it... but can one watch any Coca Cola Football League on P2P services? Since I don't have any true rooting allegiance, other than what yanks might play abroad, I sort of like the lower leagues for some reason...??

[grasshopper]

As a Yank who just discovered this site, I can tell you I pay my cable provider to watch my home town teams in MLB, NHL and NBA. Alas... No MLS team in Philly... yet... The NFL is the only US league that you don't have to pay to watch the local team... as of today anyway...

I also pay to watch some Prem Games on Fox Soccer Channel as well as just to watch Footie in general on GOLTV as well as some Spanish Channels in the Philadelphia area that carry soccer/football...

Anyways... very cool site! I used it the other day to watch the US U-20 Nats play Uruguay in FIFA U-20 WC... My Nats crashed and burned today vs. Austria but was able to find that game on a Spanish TV channel...
Owls Head, welcome in. Just on the U20's, it sounds like you have dish or direct? If you have dish, every game is on ESPNU ch 148, if you didn't already know. Anyway, time to hook up with the Villa, don't you think? Or, if you like the fizzy pop league, then maybe you should just become a Birmingham City fan...they'll be back there next year!:D

[owls head]

Owls Head, welcome in. Just on the U20's, it sounds like you have dish or direct? If you have dish, every game is on ESPNU ch 148, if you didn't already know. Anyway, time to hook up with the Villa, don't you think? Or, if you like the fizzy pop league, then maybe you should just become a Birmingham City fan...they'll be back there next year!:D


Actually what i have is digital cable... (not dish or direct tv)

so you pay a cable bill for local sports stuff, like MLB (Phillies) NHL (Flyers) etc.

You can pay extra and get other sports stations... so for Footie I can pay for Fox Soccer (which is big on Prem and Serie A) and GolTV is another one I pay for... Plus there are also Spanish channels (so yesterday watched the U - 20 US Nats on TeleFutura)

But... you just get the games they give you (no choice).

So I could not get the game the other night and used TVAnts on my computer to pick up a Chinese feed for US vs. Uruguay, because none of the soccer channels I pay for on digital cable had it... (of course if they did... I wouldn't have been watching on my computer screen...) :lol:

But... again, I think finding Footie stream will just give me more options than i currently have with my digital cable package...

as an aside... the reason i don't just go dish etc. is that the local cable company (Comcast) owns the Flyers and the Sixers (NBA) so they block their sports channel locally on Dish... ain't that something... so if you wanted to watch the hometown US local teams you would need cable and Dish and that is too much coin for moi... :eek:

[FSi Team]

Thanks LL - Just added TVU and have picked up SopCast as well as PPMate and TVAnts over the last couple of days...

Know this is not the forum for it... but can one watch any Coca Cola Football League on P2P services? Since I don't have any true rooting allegiance, other than what yanks might play abroad, I sort of like the lower leagues for some reason...??
there was a bit last season, if the same thing happens this coming season we will get the friday nigthers for sure..

[owls head]

Cool, thanks... i also think i will look forward to watch some Scottish football as I don't get any... and perhaps some Russian or Ukrainian (if i can get that to work??) AND EUROPEAN CUP FOOTBALL as well...

We do get some Champions League on ESPN in the states... but not a lot... and some UEFA Cup on GOLTV, but not until late into it...

dave

[RT87]

Cool, thanks... i also think i will look forward to watch some Scottish football as I don't get any... and perhaps some Russian or Ukrainian (if i can get that to work??) AND EUROPEAN CUP FOOTBALL as well...

We do get some Champions League on ESPN in the states... but not a lot... and some UEFA Cup on GOLTV, but not until late into it...

dave

don't worry. there will be plenty of champions league and uefa cup links. you can select the match you wanna watch on this site, unlike the on tv where you're basically stuck with what the station gives you, or pay-per-view. might be on chinese channels (as well as english) but better than nothing, eh?

[owls head]

don't worry. there will be plenty of champions league and uefa cup links. you can select the match you wanna watch on this site, unlike the on tv where you're basically stuck with what the station gives you, or pay-per-view. might be on chinese channels (as well as english) but better than nothing, eh?


No problem, i watch Spanish channels in the states all the time... (don't speak it) watched some of today's Copa America final in Spanish...

to tell the truth... doesn't really matter the sport i am watching... i have watched so many... different games and sports in my 45 years... i can do me own play by play... me wife thinks i missed my calling...

:D

[walwal]

Was it just me or were all the ESPN links on TV Ants down for the Community Shield? Could be the start of a big problem because the ESPN/Star Sports links were superb and presumably they would be the ones to be banned.

[bookworm]

Was it just me or were all the ESPN links on TV Ants down for the Community Shield? Could be the start of a big problem because the ESPN/Star Sports links were superb and presumably they would be the ones to be banned.

ESPN no longer have the rights to show live Premier League Football. The rights are now with Guangdong Sports. However, when ESPN did have the rights it didn't stop Guangdong Sports taking the feed from ESPN but somehow I doubt ESPN will be doing the same as they are a globally known name.

[StatesideScouser]

dunno if this is relevant, but I posted about a new Premier League channel here

http://www.fsicrew.info/forums/showthread.php?t=5117

[lumberjack]

ESPN no longer have the rights to show live Premier League Football. The rights are now with Guangdong Sports. However, when ESPN did have the rights it didn't stop Guangdong Sports taking the feed from ESPN but somehow I doubt ESPN will be doing the same as they are a globally known name.

I was just browsing the links for the weekend and noticed the absence of Guangdong and Shanghai sports, am I being a bit premature in thinking we have lost these channels for the time being?

[mad-dog]

I was just browsing the links for the weekend and noticed the absence of Guangdong and Shanghai sports, am I being a bit premature in thinking we have lost these channels for the time being?

well bookworm will tell you defiantly but we have seen a drop in the number of channels :oops:
but its early yet and more will pop up that do not normally show also with 4 people posting links they may not of posted yet

[lumberjack]

well bookworm will tell you defiantly but we have seen a drop in the number of channels :oops:
but its early yet and more will pop up that do not normally show also with 4 people posting links they may not of posted yet

Cheers MD! I thought it might be a bit early to start worrying.

[bookworm]

I was just browsing the links for the weekend and noticed the absence of Guangdong and Shanghai sports, am I being a bit premature in thinking we have lost these channels for the time being?

It's well documented that ESPN have lost the rights to show live Premiership Football in china - and therefore a lot of the other channels who were using the feed from ESPN such as Shanghai, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Shandong etc have also gone too. But it's still early days and I'm sure we will still have quite a few channels to watch. This weekend is going to be trial and error as we check out new and old links so please bear with us. However I'm sure there will be enough channels to watch the games on. And yes more links will be added throughout the night and tomorrow.

[lumberjack]

Cheers for the info Booky. Much appreciated.

[lumberjack]

I was just wondering if there is anything sinister with ESPN 'losing' the rights to the prem or maybe it was just a financial decision. Whatever the reason, it seems StarSports have got their hands on more games this season.

Anyone know if there are any other notable broadcasters in 'the east' (I don't mean Norwich!) that have premiership rights along the lines of the Sly and Septic split?

[mad-dog]

I was just wondering if there is anything sinister with ESPN 'losing' the rights to the prem or maybe it was just a financial decision. Whatever the reason, it seems StarSports have got their hands on more games this season.

Anyone know if there are any other notable broadcasters in 'the east' (I don't mean Norwich!) that have premiership rights along the lines of the Sly and Septic split?


yes Anglia have highlights of all championship games on a sun :D

[lumberjack]

yes Anglia have highlights of all championship games on a sun :D

:lol:

Now it's funny you mention the championship - I clicked on GD sports (SopCast) during HT of the 'pool match, and saw Watford v Wolves. Thought it may be of interest to Championship fans and worthy of further investigation........

[bookworm]

:lol:

Now it's funny you mention the championship - I clicked on GD sports (SopCast) during HT of the 'pool match, and saw Watford v Wolves. Thought it may be of interest to Championship fans and worthy of further investigation........

Thanks LJ, we'll look into it.

[Martin Roche]

Sorry this may not be the right thread, I want to make a donation of say £10.00 but I don't like the idea of payments over the internet... I'm sure I'm not alone any suggestions. Apologies if you've moved on from paypal

[Tats]

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