Fans willing to pay more to watch FIFA World Cup live on TV

sg_forum SG

Willing to pay more??? not me though...i rather watch the semis and final for free!!!

Poignant SG

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stellazio SG

confirm its a wayang show to justify them increasing charges.

dragg SG

knn, 自言其说.

Rooney9 SG

$30 just for the world cup, thats a ridiculous price to pay. then next world cup comes around, need to pay $40-$50 as price increase?

its not a matter of price, as I am sure consumers can afford to pay. but are they treating us as a money tree to tap on? they I mean FIFA, Singtel and Starhub.

Poignant SG

shall we all fuck singtel together?

dragg SG

$150 for world cup?

frankly i suggest strongly they dont bid if that is what they plan to charge.

zocoss SG

In yesterday's papers, they are preparing the ground for a 3x increment... There was even this joker they claim as a coffee shop owner who would happily pay $100 to watch it... I ask, Are these people in the majority? How come we keep seeing these guys on newspapers claiming they don't mind this, are happy with it or it's ok to pay this amount kind or stories all the time? Where they go and dig these fellows out i wonder... lol. And those who are not happy gets a little paragraph right at the bottom without any headlines... lol

Here is the thing i am just curious about... There are like 200+ countries in the world i think and 202 have already signed up for it with Fifa... I am just wondering how come Sg have so much difficulties in getting something so simple for the rest of the 202 countries?

Are our top people so incompetent that even our neighbours can easily secure it while we can't?

Malaysia, our good neighbour, broadcast the WC to its cable subscribers without any extra charge from its Sports package (S$27). Indonesia our other good neighbour, broadcast all 64 matches free over the air to it 200 over million population I presume. It was suggested we can tune our television to the Indon channel (RCTI) to watch for free but only some parts of Sg can received it... Are these countries any less football crazy than Sg?

Somehow, I still strongly believed the problem lies on our shore rather than with Fifa...

HeartHunter SG

My theory, our government perceive that such sports shows do not help in the mass propaganda (not a channel to do governmental marcom) or relieving stress level of singaporeans (when is sports ever relaxing, stress + heat = angry ppl), and may even affect singaporean economy (watch too much soccer, wake up late for work/ill, etc).

Desepl SG

Our neighbour is able to get it without increasing their package fee mainly because they are able to get a lot more advertising revenue from it. Also, their huge subscriber base is able to sustain the high fee they pay to FIFA.

Singtel and Starhub, on the other hand, have problem selling their commercial airtime as Singapore is just a small market to a lot of adveritsers and also limited by the small subscriber base here... so the field is never the same between Singapore and Malaysia...

TIB657M SG

Can also subscribe ASTRO in Singapore too?

HeartHunter SG

This is the post-rationalisation of their decision.

Its like saying why oil prices never decrease despite more and more oil wells found each year, but they can still easily argued that new oil prices reflect increased distribution costs.

Very flawed argument.

zocoss SG

You join just to make a defensive reply? But it seems rather odd if we are to take your reason cos... If we were to apply your same theory to the epl bids, it was reported Sg have paid out more than Malaysia and not just for the next 3 years (2010-2013) but also for the current 3 yrs from Starhub (2007-2010).

Seriously, Are our advertising revenue really that little? Do the maths and it doesn't seem right...

Agenda SG

Now all this wouldn't happen with much commotion if the average salaryman has at least $3,000 and housing + car doesn't take up 80% of your pay

I-like-flings(m) SG

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dun say it too early or too loud ok.... wait they last minute blocked all the live stream site then u know

mlmersrlosers SG

oh ya? what is the real intention of this article and the ongoings before this article?

Time to go ikan.pplive watch for free

mlmersrlosers SG

your argumentation is seriously flawed. First of all Singtel and Starhub did not rely on commercial revenues to provide us the service in the first place. We paid them a monthly fixed fee to them to provide us the coverage and I doubt they are losing much revenue just because FIFA is asking for an increase. They just want to pass the charges onto consumers. That's how govt sectors do their businesses (Comfort, Smrt, SBS did this when oil prices increase but prices remained unchanged when oil prices goes down)

Considering the number of coffee shops in Singapore, pubs and places that got provide this service to their customers, do you think the market in singapore is really that small? Also, there are only 2 service providers here.

Poignant SG

dun say it too early or too loud ok.... wait they last minute blocked all the live stream site then u know

me using starhub

dragg SG

why dont mediacorp seek out sponsors like they used to in the past.

let us enjoy the matches for free.

call f & n and the many big companies willing to sponsor.

i am sure they have enough advertising budget.

Desepl SG

Starhub has about 535,000 subscribers of which 250,000 subscribe to the sport package (including all the commercial establishments). Astro has about 2,800,000 subscribers of which 70% or 1,960,000 subscribe to sports... so I'm not sure if I can consider Singapore's market as small or not....

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