Your anecdotal evidence of people you would rather watch X than Y doesn’t really mean much, tv companies aren’t stupid, they have so much data and decisions will be based on maximising viewers to maximise ad. revenue to generate profit. They look (rightly) after their own interests, clearly that’s by showing big teams more. I bet there are 20 Utd to every FFC fan in England, maybe even more, inevitably will mean more tv viewers. -- SW6.doc

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Date Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 12:19:25pm
Author: Henry1879
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Subject: Your anecdotal evidence of people you would rather watch X than Y doesn’t really mean much, tv companies aren’t stupid, they have so much data and decisions will be based on maximising viewers to maximise ad. revenue to generate profit. They look (rightly) after their own interests, clearly that’s by showing big teams more. I bet there are 20 Utd to every FFC fan in England, maybe even more, inevitably will mean more tv viewers.
In reply to: Same Old Story 's message, "For the third time in the thread, the games Sky show domestically should have absolutely nothing to do with the number of worldwide fans they have. Its irrelevant. Their worldwide fans will be serviced by other providers. We're talking about games televised domestically." on Tuesday, October 01, 11:35:38am

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I think in general the prem is fair, look at la liga, where teams negotiate their own tv deals, the difference between Barca/Madrid and the rest is night and day. Domestically & internationally Liv/utd/ars etc, the legacy type teams generate so much interest/revenue I think it’d only fair tbey receive a slightly bigger piece of the pie, but overall I think the prem is well balanced in its momentary distribution. (NT) -- Henry1879, Tuesday, October 01, 12:22:33pm (croy-26-b2-v4wan-167127-cust1611.vm24.cable.virginm.net/82.38.22.76)

I've laid out a longer post inside a reply - fundamentally, of course i understand what you're saying, but i disagree with yourself and ASPT, i've laid out why, and it has all the hallmarks of a tedious, circular discussion, so i'll pull out here. I still don't think the distribution is right - you do - fair enough. (NT) -- Same Old Story, Tuesday, October 01, 12:43:24pm (webdefence-pool-02.cluster-lonb.forcepoint.net/85.115.53.202)

Your longer post makes full sense, but others are also right to imagine that the marketing and ad sales execs call the shots, and they have families to feed and mortgages to pay. As they used to say, "nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM." Just change the names. (NT) -- b+w g., Tuesday, October 01, 01:25:27pm (68.52.159.143.dyn.plus.net/143.159.52.68)

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