{"id":4075,"date":"2012-08-08T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2012-08-08T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:26:59","slug":"murdoch-buys-dutch-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/08\/08\/murdoch-buys-dutch-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch buys Dutch football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMurdoch may have gotten into trouble with his &#8220;news&#8221; organisations, but the football branch of his empire going strong, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/archives\/2012\/08\/fox_networks_buys_dutch_footba.php\">he has just plunked down a billion euros for the Dutch football rights<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nRupert Murdoch&#8217;s Fox Networks has taken a 51% controlling interest in tv channel Eredivisie Live which broadcasts premier league matches, say press reports on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deal, worth \u20ac1bn over 12 years and due to begin in the 2013-2014 season, was unanimously agreed by the 18 clubs involved and the football association KNVB.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFox is paying \u20ac960m to show the games and taking over the \u20ac60m in debt of Eredivisie Live.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nEredivisie Live was set up a few years ago by the Eredivisie clubs as a pay channel for their matches, after earlier attempts to commercialise football broadcasts all failed. It&#8217;s been doing soso over the years, not nearly making as much money for the clubs as they expected. There&#8217;s also the competition of Sport1, which shows mostly foreign football &#8212; Premiership, Bundesliga undsoweiter, which hasn&#8217;t helped. With the entry of Murdoch\/Sky in the Dutch market, there are likely going to be massive changes to football broadcasting; they&#8217;re certainly much more professional in their methods to wring the most money out of it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhether that&#8217;s good for us football fans is another matter entirely; first reactions are mainly worried about whether the public broadcaster here can keep the traditional highlight programme on Sunday evening. More money for football is a good thing, but Holland is still a small market and not that attractive for foreign rebroadcasting, surely. It may mean, as in England that football will be further priced out of reach of the ordinary fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murdoch may have gotten into trouble with his &#8220;news&#8221; organisations, but the football branch of his empire going strong, as he has just plunked down a billion euros for the Dutch football rights: Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s Fox Networks has taken a 51% controlling interest in tv channel Eredivisie Live which broadcasts premier league matches, say press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}