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Fixture Changes


All the Changes due to TV, Police, UEFA Cup have now been announced
and are detailed in the attached link

In anticipation of an announcement by July 1st here is the Tv Deal
details

A Sky
23 first-choice matches shown at 4.00 pm on Sundays

B Sky
23 second-choice matches shown at 1.30pm on Sundays

C Setanta
23 third-choice matches shown at 8.00 pm on Mondays

D Setanta
8 second-choice matches + 15 fourth-choice matches shown at 5.15pm on Saturdays

E Sky
5 first-choice matches shown + 9 third-choice matches + 9 fourth-choice matches shown at 12.45pm on Saturdays

F Sky
10 first-choice matches + 7 second-choice matches + 6 third-choice matches in midweek and bank holidays, Saturdays (12.45pm) and Sundays (4.00pm)

To Sum Up

First Choice
SKY 38

Second Choice
SKY 30 SETANTA 8

Third Choice
SKY 15 SETANTA 23

Fourth Choice
SKY 9 SETANTA 15

Total 138 games
SKY 92 SETANTA 46

However there is a restiction on the number of times each club
can be shown in each package

Let the plotting and scheming at Sky begin

For example( Sky will let Setanta pick the big four on the
Monday of a Champions League week when Setanta will not
be able to pick them )

2007-2008 English football fixtures - by individual club - including pre-season games:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6742061.stm

Blackburn v Aston Villa on Wed 15th August

will have to be postponed if Blackburn win their two leg Inter Toto Match
on 21 and 28 July as they will have to play

UEFA Cup Qualifier Thursday 16th and 30th August.

This will also shift the games at home to Arsenal to Sun 19th August
and home to Man City to Sunday 2nd September

And onto the UEFA Cup 1st Round

League Games with Bolton, Everton and Spurs will be moved
to Sunday 23rd September and Sunday 7th October.

As stated above games involving Blackburn may be moved if they
have qualified to the UEFA Cup 1st round as well.

Liverpool website confirms:
home Premiership fixture with Tottenham Hotspur has been put back 24 hours due to Spurs' involvement in the UEFA Cup. The game was originally scheduled for October 6, but will now take place on October 7.

The home clash with West Ham, pencilled in for August 15, has definitely been called off due to Liverpool's participation in the qualifying round of the European Champions League. No new date has yet been set for the game.

I've just signed up to a fixtures mailing list at arsenal.com which in theory will send me changes as they occur. If I get any, I'll post them here.

This is probably the wrong thread to ask this question, and if so accept my apologies, but when will Sky/Setanta announce their first tranche of Prem fixture changes?

I only ask because Sky's list of Championship fixtures for the first few months of the season seems to have a hell of a lot of Saturday 5.20pm KOs, which presumably will clash with Setanta's Saturday 5.15pm Premiership games.

That's unlikely to be an oversight

It's sometimes within a week of the fixtures release, and I think always within 2 weeks. I think I noticed someone say somewhere "by July 1st" [edit: "someone, somewhere" = "Judio, earlier in this thread" ], so I'm expecting them in the next couple of days.

Unless they're waiting for the West Ham verdict, anyone know when that's due?

Much as I am loathe to point a fellow FISOite towards the official Man United website, this link says it will be "later this week":

United fans will discover later this week which of the club's 2007-08 Barclays Premier League fixtures will be switched for live TV coverage.

Sky Sports and Setanta are set to announce their listings for the first half of the season, which will move some games away from their traditional 3pm Saturday slots.

I don't think my guess of July 1 is too bad compared with later this week

It's looking better by the hour!

The TV Companies are now waiting for the Sheff U ruling (which is at1430 today) before announcing the changes

Still no sign of the live games frustratingly!

The official reading site, has an announcement posted yesterday that the games will be announced within the next 7-14 days!!!

Understand TV games are due to be announced within next 36 hours, ie, on/by Fri 6 July.

This is really getting on my wick now. I have arrangements to make and they cannot be done until I know if certain games are going to be moved or not.

There's a new article on the Sky website called "Premier League live on Sky" that appeared this afternoon. Unfortunately, it reads:

Sky Sports have confirmed their live Barclays Premier League fixtures for the first four months of the season.

Sky Sports have confirmed their live Barclays Premier League fixtures for the first four months of the season.

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It does list some timeslots as well. It seems all the non-PPV games will be 13.00 and 15.30 kick-offs on Sundays, both moved forward half an hour from last season. [edit] Thinking about it, this could just be the time the program starts with a 30 minute preamble before KO.

I have sent an e-mail to the webmaster in the hope they will correct it soon.

There are no PPV games this year I believe.

Announcement delayed again. This is message from Premier League:

I am pleased to confirm that we will have television selections up to the end of November confirmed for our supporters on Monday 9 July.

Could be tosh but stumbled across this earlier...page 6...

http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopi ... &start=100

confirmation of TV games up to end November

listed here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2045485.ece

SKY SPORTS AND SETANTA SPORTS step up the battle for viewers for their live Barclays Premier League matches today by announcing their selection of fixtures. Sky, which has lost its monopoly of live rights for the first time since the league’s formation in 1992 after European Commission intervention, will broadcast 92 games, two thirds of the 138 that will be shown live, with Setanta screening the remaining 46.

While the minimum payment to receive Sky Sports is £34 per month, which comes as part of a variety of packages, including nonsports, Setanta Sports’ channels will be available for £9.99 per month. Last season, the 50 nonSky live games were broadcast on PremPlus, a pay-per-view channel that charged £50 for the season, about half the amount Setanta subscribers will be paying for their 46 fixtures, although they will also receive Scottish and European football — and other sports — for their money.

The first televised match in either the Premier League or Football League will be Roy Keane’s top-flight debut as a manager when his Sunderland team face Tottenham Hotspur at the Stadium of Light on Saturday, August 11, at 12.45pm on Sky Sports. The former Manchester United player inspired the rise of his side from bottom to top of the Coca-Cola Championship last season and Sunderland will be shown live seven times in the first 14 rounds of matches to the end of November, the fifth-highest number among Premier League clubs. In contrast, the other promoted sides, Birmingham City and Derby County, will be televised live on three occasions.

Manchester United and Liverpool will be screened nine times each in the first batch of live matches — the most — with Liverpool’s match away to Aston Villa at tea-time on the opening Saturday constituting Setanta’s first foray into English league football. Villa will appear live eight times by the end of November, more than Chelsea and Arsenal (six and five respectively). Wigan Athletic are the only team with just two live appearances, although all clubs must be shown at least five times.

Sky will show all four meetings between last season’s top four teams before the end of November, while Setanta has acquired live rights to FA Cup matches jointly with ITV from the 2008-09 season. “We’re expecting to have a considerable impact,” Trevor East, its director of sport, said. “Only a year ago, hardly anybody had heard of Setanta in England.”

Sky will show four games more than last season. “This new deal means we can provide a better balance of coverage of all 20 clubs,” Vic Wakeling, Sky Sports’ managing director, said.

Sky tv games up now


http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hli ... y#Fixtures

Just updating my spreadsheet and I notice one anomaly.



These are the advertised live games but on that weekend the actual games are Manchester City v Middlesbrough and Everton v Newcastle.

I'm presuming it is a simple transposition error but can anyone throw any light on this?

Yeah i noticed that too, the fixtures pre live games announcement were:



Would assume the sky tv listing is a typo, rather than sky having moved the fixtures from the 6/10 w/e and then switching the home and away teams around

Even the Premier League Fixture List has the different games on Sep
29/30th

What is going on

Here is the answer from Newcastle site

Due to the City of Manchester Stadium hosting the UEFA Cup final three days after the end of the season, the visit of Newcastle United has been brought forward to Saturday September 29th. City’s Premier League campaign will now end with a trip to Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium on Sunday, May 11th.

They should be paying subscribers to watch that faecal matter

I won't be subscribing, that's for certain.

So it looks like City and Everton are swapping fixtures for 29/9/07 & 11/5/08?

If you look at the fixtures for the following week City are due to play Newcastle and Everton are away to Middlesborough! Does this mean that they are going to play against the same opposition two weeks in a row?

Ok, I've sussed it.

The fixtures on 29/9/07, 6/10/07, 1/1/08 & 11/5/08 involving Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Newcastle & Everton have all been shunted around to accomodate this necessary switch.