[gordon_brittas]

Anyone know if the midweek games in League 2 are streamable like this league?

Considering a new job and the hours mean I’ll not be back in time for the home games on a week night.

Cheers!

[DIFH]

gordon_brittas, on 26 February 2024 - 06:53 PM, said:

Anyone know if the midweek games in League 2 are streamable like this league?

Considering a new job and the hours mean I’ll not be back in time for the home games on a week night.

Cheers!

I follow ??

[PontePete]

gordon_brittas, on 26 February 2024 - 06:53 PM, said:

Anyone know if the midweek games in League 2 are streamable like this league?

Considering a new job and the hours mean I’ll not be back in time for the home games on a week night.

Cheers!

Yes they are Gord. Pay for the stream on I-follow as DIFH says or watch for free if you’ve got the right ‘equipment’.

It’s the same as in NL, you can stream any game that’s not subject to the 3pm Saturday blackout

[hewittfan]

DIFH, on 26 February 2024 - 06:54 PM, said:

I follow ??

From next season, football league (excluding Saturday 3pm blackout games), EFL Cup and EFL Trophy matches will be shown live either on a Sky main channel or via a Sky streaming platform, replacing the iFollow service for domestic viewers.

[gordon_brittas]

Thanks all 👍

[s42blue]

gordon_brittas, on 26 February 2024 - 07:33 PM, said:

Thanks all 👍

With your cheery predictions and half full commentary I think a few on here would rather you work on a Saturday too.

(Gentle leg pulling)

[Lincs Spireite]

hewittfan, on 26 February 2024 - 07:15 PM, said:

From next season, football league (excluding Saturday 3pm blackout games), EFL Cup and EFL Trophy matches will be shown live either on a Sky main channel or via a Sky streaming platform, replacing the iFollow service for domestic viewers.

So has Sky purchased the i-follow rights to stream matches. That means we HAVE to subscribe to Sky. The robbing dogs. I left Sky because their charges were daylight robbery.

[JonB]

Lincs Spireite, on 27 February 2024 - 08:59 AM, said:

So has Sky purchased the i-follow rights to stream matches. That means we HAVE to subscribe to Sky. The robbing dogs. I left Sky because their charges were daylight robbery.

Think it was part of the new TV deal the EFL signed up to, basically the EFL wanted more money so agreed to more televised games and extended the red button coverage they have for Championship games to League 1 and 2 as well.

[warfey is a spireite]

I have sky for years,so will all games be red button and included in ure package ?

[Exharboroughspireite]

warfey is a spireite, on 27 February 2024 - 12:26 PM, said:

I have sky for years,so will all games be red button and included in ure package ?

Interesting in the Q&A section here nothing about cost to consumer: https://www.efl.com/...ghts-agreement/

[HaslandBlue58]

gordon_brittas, on 26 February 2024 - 06:53 PM, said:

Anyone know if the midweek games in League 2 are streamable like this league?

Considering a new job and the hours mean I’ll not be back in time for the home games on a week night.

Cheers!

Is that the score predicting for a top gambling company job? Only joking!!!

[Sammy Spireite]

warfey is a spireite, on 27 February 2024 - 12:26 PM, said:

I have sky for years,so will all games be red button and included in ure package ?

No

You’ll still need to pay for I-follow either per game or for the season and you’ll still not be able to watch 3pm Saturday games live on Sky inless it’s international weekend or you can work a VPN.

This post has been edited by Sammy Spireite: 28 February 2024 - 01:26 AM

[azul]

Sammy Spireite, on 28 February 2024 - 01:26 AM, said:

No

You’ll still need to pay for I-follow either per game or for the season and you’ll still not be able to watch 3pm Saturday games live on Sky inless it’s international weekend or you can work a VPN.

I’m a bit confused with that statement about needing iFollow. Surely that is only for 3pm Saturday kickoffs where they aren’t shown domestically. As you suggested you’ll need a subscription and a VPN.

I think what was being asked was, are games not on the main Sky channels and are streamed instead, part of your Sky subscription? It wasn’t clear to me whether they are or not. Whatever, I’m sure the extra televised/streamed games will force another price subscription price rise.

This post has been edited by azul: 28 February 2024 - 12:13 PM

[Sammy Spireite]

azul, on 28 February 2024 - 12:12 PM, said:

I’m a bit confused with that statement about needing iFollow. Surely that is only for 3pm Saturday kickoffs where they aren’t shown domestically. As you suggested you’ll need a subscription and a VPN.

I think what was being asked was, are games not on the main Sky channels and are streamed instead, part of your Sky subscription? It wasn’t clear to me whether they are or not. Whatever, I’m sure the extra televised/streamed games will force another price subscription price rise.

IFollow is the EFL version of NLTV, so in much the same way that BT (TNT) have the rights to the NL now, they still can't show Saturday 3pm games now, and nor do they stream every game themselves.

I've not seen anything to suggest Sky will be showing all games live (either by stream or otherwise) so assume they've got the the rights to show the pick of games, move them to what they class as suitable KO times, show all the highlights on a Saturday evening and the remaining games will still be available to to stream under the existing rules/mediums on iFollow.

I can't imagine Sky will be to circumvent the 3pm Saturday UK law.

[azul]

Sammy Spireite, on 28 February 2024 - 12:59 PM, said:

IFollow is the EFL version of NLTV, so in much the same way that BT (TNT) have the rights to the NL now, they still can't show Saturday 3pm games now, and nor do they stream every game themselves.

I've not seen anything to suggest Sky will be showing all games live (either by stream or otherwise) so assume they've got the the rights to show the pick of games, move them to what they class as suitable KO times, show all the highlights on a Saturday evening and the remaining games will still be available to to stream under the existing rules/mediums on iFollow.

I can't imagine Sky will be to circumvent the 3pm Saturday UK law.

Looking at links to the Q&As Sky have rights to all league midweek, bank holiday, first and last fixtures of the season games either on their traditional channels or streaming. At the weekends they will show 10 games fixtures in total, 5 championship and 5 L1/L2 games which they’ll move away from the Saturday 3pm slot.

I never suggested Sky were going to show Saturday 3pm games in fact the Q&As explicitly say they aren’t.

It looks to me that iFollow only have international rights and presumably you can use a VPN to circumnavigate the rules. That is the arrangement iFollow had when they first came on the scene back in 2017.

Edit
Incidentally I was abroad in iFollows first season and had trouble subscribing with my credit card and moving from country to country so they seemed to do checks that NLTV didn’t bother with. After contacting their helpline they obviously enable something in my account and when I eventually got back to the UK, I could subscribe to games as I wished

This post has been edited by azul: 28 February 2024 - 01:58 PM

[Lincs Spireite]

So to clarify, If you buy a stream for a Tues night game in the National League you pay National League TV, nowt to do with TNT. Same goes for League 2, you buy a stream from I-follow nowt to do with Sky ?

[azul]

Lincs Spireite, on 28 February 2024 - 01:43 PM, said:

So to clarify, If you buy a stream for a Tues night game in the National League you pay National League TV, nowt to do with TNT. Same goes for League 2, you buy a stream from I-follow nowt to do with Sky ?

Indeed, although obviously TNT have agreed to share their NL rights to facilitate the streaming and also block the streaming of their televised games.

[born in 1866]

Sammy Spireite, on 28 February 2024 - 12:59 PM, said:

I can't imagine Sky will be to circumvent the 3pm Saturday UK law.

It is not the law. It is EUFA article 48 which gives member football associations within EUFA the ability to block live tv and/or radio during designated times. Our FA have Saturday 3pm when 50% or more premier league games are scheduled.

This post has been edited by born in 1866: 28 February 2024 - 09:06 PM