Viewers vote which Premier League game to broadcast on Canal+

[cris808]

I noticed something interesting while looking at the Polish Canal+ website.

It seems you can vote for which Premier League game you want them to broadcast.

I wonder if other networks do this or might start doing this?

Here is the link: http://www.canalplus.pl/sport/oferta-sportowa

It's on the right hand side of the page.

[anno 1366]

think they did it with setanta ireland
this week

[rigsby71]

Yes, all them QPR fans must have won the vote then.

I think with Setanta, they probably got together with the Premier League.

QPR = 17500
Man City = 47500

I guess they may have come to an agreement with the PL based on the above figures.

City are more likely to have more empty seats than QPR if they are on TV so Setanta were asked to switch the game shown as Qpr at appx 17500 would more or less fill their ground whether or not they were on TV with it being a small ground.

So from a PL point of view, they thought that maybe more City fans will go to the game as they could not watch it on Setanta therefore increasing the attendances at City instead of being 5 to 10 thousand short of capacity & that's a lot of money for the Premier League.

Today's attendance at City may well have been only 40000 had it been on TV but they got 47000 instead.

But QPR , being only small ground problably did not lose more than a handful of fans so that's my guess why Setanta made the switch.

Makes perfectly good business sence really.