Topic: New HD LFCTV - £7 a month on Sky

[Jonny5]

What are you paying £7 for?

well as i dont subscribe to skysports or btsport, £7 to watch the match be it 24 hours later is cheap if you ask me, plus i get everything else on offer.

[Endoe]

I'd rather pay £20 and get a 'season ticket' of live Liverpool games than pay £7 for repeats the day after and RAWK style phone ins.

Oh well.

I'm sure the club would love to do that but the PL would rightly never allow it to happen

[jamie_c]

I just can't believe anyone would sign up to this, when you compare to what you can get from BT for £12 and the sky channels for a bit more.

the content on LFCTV is terrible and I'll be amazed if they get 10,000 people in this country willing to pay.

[CraigDS]

the content on LFCTV is terrible and I'll be amazed if they get 10,000 people in this country willing to pay.

MUTV get 100,000 paying £6 from UK and Ireland apparently.

[Jonny5]

its been 3 years since ive had sky, do sky or bt show the whole game if its not that weeks live game.

[Fordy]

Hmmm no thanks.

[Motty]

its been 3 years since ive had sky, do sky or bt show the whole game if its not that weeks live game.

Just the 55 minute highlights on a Saturday night ,unless it's game of the day which they show the whole game at 8.

[Narwin Dunez]

Shite. In a word.

Got it for free back at my parents on an old sky box, wouldn't pay £7 a month. But it is a service I was enjoying for free, so can't complain at having to pay a little for it. £90 a year though? 4/5ths of the license fee? Nah.

[stevemc]

the match commentator is doing the darts on itv4 tonight. He's just said klasen has put one past the post when he missed the double.

[Jonny5]

Just the 55 minute highlights on a Saturday night ,unless it's game of the day which they show the whole game at 8.

so its the only channel to show the whole game unless you stream it on the net or are lucky that its shown live on skysports or bt.

i agree that its not the most polished of productions but still there is some pretty good stuff on there, all the archive footage alone is worth the fee.

looking forward to see what they do with it.

[Manila Vanilla]

And with an agonized squawk, Mighty Red discovered it had laid its last golden egg.

[TSC]

Timing is everything eh.  Bet they were planning on a big announcement to coincide with a great victory over Madrid.  Seriously but, who the feck will pay for that, esp if you subscribe to ordinary sports channels which actually show games.  Well at least you can watch the crowd when the game is on.  Or during midweek watch a few wanna be's try and chip a footie into a bin from 4 yards.

Only thing which was good in terms of regular up-to-date stuff (obviously all the old retro games are ace) was the press box.  But not worth subscribing for I'm afraid.

Fail. Do you not get enough dosh out of us LFC?

[CraigDS]

Only thing which was good in terms of regular up-to-date stuff (obviously all the old retro games are ace) was the press box.

U18 and U21 games were/are the best things on there IMO.

[TSC]

U18 and U21 games were/are the best things on there IMO.

Sometimes would watch the odd one like if the U21's had a biggish game or something.  But not worth a subscription in my view.

[TSC]

a free LFC sky remote for £7.00 would be of great interest!

Lol.

[Skidder.]

This made me laugh a bit.

The current programming on LFC.tv is pretty crap to be fair, but really, I wouldn't expect much more. There are some shockingly woeful segements on the channel currently and the quality of the broadcasting reminds me of Liverpool Live TV in the 90s at times. Of course, the channel offers ex-players the opportunity to get involved with club based Media, but half of the time I've found myself preferring to just come on here and watch certain posters argue with each other about Joe Allen.

It's already been said, but for the subscription price I'd happily pay that to see our games live. Whilst this will not happen, you could almost say that this is what they are gearing up to. 24 hours a day is obviously to appeal to a wider international audience, but on the whole, I'd say that they would need to bring that price down by at least £3 a month. With all due respect to the presenters of the show, they alone aren't worth paying subscription for.

Anyone wanting to weigh up the pro's and con's of this. Whilst LFC.tv is a private entity and has no public service remit, realise that you already pay an extortionate amount for your digital content already. With TV licence and Sky TV or Virgin subscription, this almost feels like a football tax. True, it is moving to HD and yadi-ya-ya, all that crap. But aside of showing youth games, interviews with the team and the occasional documentary - What is it that your subscription is really funding?

The club will never be able to wrestle live games from Murdoch et al, so it's unlikely that we can expect to be funding the possibility of our own dedicated football channel. One day I do feel as though this will happen, but it won't be any day soon. If LFC.tv, the Mancs, Chelsea and Arsenal all make a killing on this and more or less prove this is a viable alternative option to the current Sky scheduling, then yeah, we may one day see something similar to the American model of sports broadcasting. But you can bet your arse that it will charge far more than £7 a month for it.

 This really is a lesson in venture capitalism. I love the club and financially support it as much as I can - But I personally won't be charged £7 a month for the privilege of doing so.

[Hij]

Never really watched it anyway, and won't be any longer.

Seeing as it's cost me £56 to watch a European game and see us get slaughtered, I'd rather £7 a month go towards feeding my footballing habit which is teetering on the verge of being ill affordable.

[gwalk]

[peachybum]

well as i dont subscribe to skysports or btsport, £7 to watch the match be it 24 hours later is cheap if you ask me, plus i get everything else on offer.

Last week i was offered the entire BTSports package for just £8 a month. £7 a month for LFCTV is simply ridiculous.

[Fromola]

Maybe we'll now be able to afford a Di Maria, Fabregas or Costa next summer? Could've done with this extra income a few months ago.

Money made from this would be lucky to cover a back up players' wages. It's the big commercial deals that make the money, along with the TV deal, and frustratingly we tend to squander most of it with our shocking record in the transfer market.

The fact it's been free for so long means a lot won't bother forking out extra for it now.

[Smudgester]

U18 and U21 games were/are the best things on there IMO.

If they had the first team's games live then £7pm would be a bargain. And if that day ever comes there would be millions of people willing to pay £20pm to watch LFCTV.

But, as others have said, £7pm gets you all of BT Sports content - the club are taking the piss.

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Sometimes would watch the odd one like if the U21's had a biggish game or something.  But not worth a subscription in my view.

This is another thing! If you were daft enough to pay the £7 ...I'd be demanding they show EVERY U21 and U18 game and they don't do that

[OneTouchFooty]

Maybe we'll now be able to afford a Di Maria, Fabregas or Costa next summer? Could've done with this extra income a few months ago.

The money made off everyones monthly subscription will probably cover Johnson's wages for a few days.

 

[harrylfc]

Won't be gettin 7 quid outa me,pay enough for sky as it is.

[geth7]

No ta

[CraigDS]

But, as others have said, £7pm gets you all of BT Sports content - the club are taking the piss.

I don't pay for BT either, as so far this season I've not had a single Liverpool game I've had to watch on it (go to the home games), think Newcastle is the only one this first half of the season.

So for me it would make more sense to pay for LFC TV as would watch every u18 and u21 games plus some of the other content - however I won't be doing that for £7 either.

[Smudgester]

I don't pay for BT either, as so far this season I've not had a single Liverpool game I've had to watch on it (go to the home games), think Newcastle is the only one this first half of the season.

So for me it would make more sense to pay for LFC TV as would watch every u18 and u21 games plus some of the other content - however I won't be doing that for £7 either.

Subscribe to BT Broadband and you'll get BT Sport for free.

[leivapool]

Subscribe to BT Broadband and you'll get BT Sport for free.

At the moment.  That's not sustainable long term and at some time in the future  BT Sport will no longer be free with BT Broadband.  Of course, by then people will be stuck with a BT broadband contract,  which was BT's aim all along - increase Braodband subscribers

[Smudgester]

I am only stuck with a BT Broadband for another till the end of the season ( IIRC BT contracts are 24 months max ) so BT Sports will be free for the rest of the contract.

But on the other hand ... long term BT will have a lot more football ( Sky's current share of the CL from August and they want a bigger portion of the PL ) which may justify the fee they MIGHT charge to BT Broadband customers.

[CraigDS]

Subscribe to BT Broadband and you'll get BT Sport for free.

I'm in the middle of a Sky contract so can't at the moment. Plus I had BT broadband previously here and it was fucking awful which made me change in the first place.

[CraigDS]

But on the other hand ... long term BT will have a lot more football ( Sky's current share of the CL from August and they want a bigger portion of the PL ) which may justify the fee they MIGHT charge to BT Broadband customers.

They'll definitely have to start charging if they want to compete with Sky in the long term, as paying close to £900m over the next 3yrs for CL, and £740m for PL games for 3 years, in comparison Sky paid £2.3bn for their PL games package - so will need the added income to fund that sort of bid.

[HarryLabrador]

I'm in the middle of a Sky contract so can't at the moment. Plus I had BT broadband previously here and it was fucking awful which made me change in the first place.

We are with Virgin, and where we are broadband is fantastic compared to our previous time with Sky. BTW Virgin provides BT sport free, for the moment.

[Pistolero]

financially, I support the club as little as I possibly can (which is still a lot)...so this is just something else that I won't be paying

[Alf]

The only content I like is the 60 minute features with past players. Not paying £7 a month for it, no doubt people will.

[gkmacca]

I've got to hand it to the club, they've played this superbly: start the channel normally for the first month or so of a new season, then effectively shut it down without really explaining to anyone, then ignoring masses of fans asking politely what's going on, then finally announcing they're going to charge fans to watch such treats as the human pipecleaner Claire Rourke preside over ex-pros trying to kick a ball into a bin, Davey Fairclough and Roy Evans trying to eat apples hanging on pieces of string and innumerable features such as '20 best goals against teams beginning with an A in the 80s!' Brilliant work.

[CraigDS]

such treats as the human pipecleaner Claire Rourke

Yeah, let's throw insults at how the girl looks, that'll help.

[gkmacca]

'That'll help'?? What do you think this is, OFCOM?

[Liamski-la]

Rodgers clearly thought she had something worth looking at.

[CraigDS]

'That'll help'?? What do you think this is, OFCOM?

No, it's a site which expects certain levels of respect.

[wampa1]

LOL They're dreaming