The influence of television in Football
As of the 2007/08 season, the television rights for the English premier league was valued at around £1 billion each season. This amount of money allows the television company's to have a strong influence over modern day football.
In 1992, the clubs in the 'first division' in England voted to quit the league and set up their own called 'The Premier League' and they agreed a deal with Sky Sports to broadcast the leagues games, the other options were BBC and ITV. One of the ways that television has influenced football is the kick off times of televised games. For example live games are broadcast on various channels regularly on Friday nights, 12:45 on a saturday, around 5pm on a saturday and also around 1pm and 4pm on Sundays. Football games before they were broadcast used to mostly all be on 3pm on a Saturday. These kick off times could lead to fans not being able to attend for various reasons.
There are many factors that effect the attendance at football games such as price of tickets, teams involved, size of stadium and the importance of the game. However television can have an negative impact on attendance at football games. This is because some people may travel quite far to go and watch their team play but if a game is broadcast live on television, they may decide to stay at home and watch which will save them money and also time.
In 1992, the clubs in the 'first division' in England voted to quit the league and set up their own called 'The Premier League' and they agreed a deal with Sky Sports to broadcast the leagues games, the other options were BBC and ITV. One of the ways that television has influenced football is the kick off times of televised games. For example live games are broadcast on various channels regularly on Friday nights, 12:45 on a saturday, around 5pm on a saturday and also around 1pm and 4pm on Sundays. Football games before they were broadcast used to mostly all be on 3pm on a Saturday. These kick off times could lead to fans not being able to attend for various reasons.
There are many factors that effect the attendance at football games such as price of tickets, teams involved, size of stadium and the importance of the game. However television can have an negative impact on attendance at football games. This is because some people may travel quite far to go and watch their team play but if a game is broadcast live on television, they may decide to stay at home and watch which will save them money and also time.
On the other hand, there are positives influences that television bring to football. One of these is that they promote participation in sport through various different projects such as Sky living for sport. Their aim is to "Use sports stars and sports skills to improve the lives of thousands of young people". They do this by having an ambassador for each sport who will help young people enjoy and take part in that sports. For example David Beckham is the ambassador for football and he will go to various places such as schools and youth clubs who have applied for the project and run events and practice sessions in which the children will hopefully enjoy playing football and maybe take it up as a regular hobby which will make them more active and improve their lifestyle.
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