Other Channels Are Not Interested

It seems that itv, channel 4 and 5 are not interested in bidding on the premier league highlights to pub Gary Lineker and match of the day out of business
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[@pippaneil4632]

Linekers probably got Everything to do with the Falling viewing figures.

[@CYMRUKID69]

Yes but the bbcs and linekers freemason/WEF buddies will continue to pay him and them as it is a fantastic lies and propaganda tool for the corrupt elites.

[@johnblack6161]

Im glad they are not wasting my money, not a penny to that corrupt organisation.

[@ianhawdon3680]

Me as well stopped paying 3 month ago

[@mikehutchison4892]

Maybe,they’re getting lessons from the Tory Govt. ? Still,we’ll all be dead when they stop us from getting free medicines.

[@pstanyer1]

15 years for me

[@blacksmitho2224]

Same here stopped paying nearly 4 years now

[@dps8435]

Exactly how I watch it ,you tube 3 minute highlights of all games,no waffle and box ticking sh*t.

[@iangascoigne8231]

Some people like the waffle else they wouldn’t pay an arm and a leg for Sky Sports to watch it live.

[@dps8435]

@@iangascoigne8231 mug's.

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@dps8435 What ? You are?

[@allendavid4139]

Not to mention the absurd sum of £££ they pay Linekars sidekick Shearer .

[@tonytasker489]

I had a red letter delivered today. I thought, blimey, my first Christmas card. I turned it over and there in big bold letters were the 2 words that have me laughing everytime I see them. UNDER INVESTIGATION!😱😂😂😂

[@jamesdumazel5099]

Ditto, in the garbage.

[@user-zu6qn9ux9n]

Got one of those a couple of weeks ago. Was addressed to the manager whoever that is 😂

[@derekwhitfield8]

Have not received a letter this month TV licence. Still I did get two last month never mind.

[@richardscott8146]

Me too

[@MikeEves]

I must be on my 40th or 50th investigation, none of the previous investigations were ever closed.....

[@steveharrison6447]

Hi John. Apparently the BBC are currently paying £211.5 million for MOTD. As a matter of interest ITV weren't interested last time round either. Keep up the good work my friend, I enjoy your videos.

[@steveharrison6447]

That comes out at 1,330,189 TV licences just to watch Lineker and his pals. What a waste of money! Thank God they're not getting any of mine.

[@PastPresented]

Worth remembering that in the 2000 rights auction, ITV did outbid the BBC. It did not go well for them.

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

And to think the brilliant "Fawlty Towers" was produced on a tiny budget.

[@CryptoChrisCard]

Per year or the length of the contract?

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

@@CryptoChrisCard I would imagine contract otherwise that is even more obscene if its per season.

[@nickerrison-davey9099]

Coming up to my 1st anniversary of not paying Gary LineAcker's salary 😊

[@Del640]

Do BBC exist? … Not Interested!

[@Nicole-Faith]

Comment to help the algorithm and just to add that I can't stand Gary Linekar and don't know what the BBC see in him! 😆

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@ROBERTTONUS And he probably has some dirt on some important people.

[@Nicole-Faith]

@@ROBERTTONUS He's annoying as all heck so that works for the BBC.

[@spokes1018]

​@@englishciderlover7347 like zoe ball being on a million for one radio show, she spent a lot of time as a kid around the BBC studios....she must have some dirt.

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@spokes1018 You're right. Her dad spent years on BBC TV. I wonder if he told her any 'interesting' stories over the years. Making £1m or more for talking about footie or playing rock'n'roll records is money for old rope. I'd do either of those 'jobs' for a grand a week.

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

Aside from "Match of the day" the premiership get a fortune themselves to allow their games to be broadcast and if you consider how much some players earn a year even makes Linnakers wages look like paper round money. On a fun note on ITV4 on a saturday morning they have been showing "The Big Match" from the 70,s which was ITV,s answer to MOTD shown on a sunday back then.No sponsorship on shirts and pitches in the winter that were more mud than turf.Takes me right back to my youth watching Walsall with my dad.

[@MENSA.lady2]

Walsall ? Lucky you. My dad was in the army and took me to watch Aldershot.

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

@@MENSA.lady2 My dad was a lifelong Walsall fan so I was inducted at an early age.I therefore still am a fan of low league clubs so dont knock Aldershot.As a lower league the big games were the FA cup rounds obviously or the odd season promotion looked likely.Other than that it was just unconditional love for the team no matter how badly they played.

[@MENSA.lady2]

Back in the 1970's Aldershot were in Division 3 South. They made it to round 4 of the FA cup and got a home draw against Liverpool. At the time the Aldershot Player/Manager was Jimmy Melia who had played for Liverpool and England. Did he play in the match ? of course he did, but he knew he was past his best and substituted himself after about 3 minutes. Aldershot only lost 1-0 but the fans from both sides had a day to remember.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Loved The Big Match, with the great Brian Moore then, after he retired, Elton Welsby.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

@@MENSA.lady2And Aldershot would have made a tidy sum from it too, which would have helped them.

[@biggobmalc8118]

It really is about time that the BBC and all of its associated companies and companies that it has shareholdings in are thoroughly investigated. Surely, they owe it to the TV tax paying public to explain an outline exactly where their money is being spent, or what it's being wasted on is probably more poignant.

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

*_"Surely, they owe it to the TV tax paying public to explain an outline exactly where their money is being spent"_* Why? The BBC is not paid out of our taxes, it's paid for by a flat fee. And, by the way, we never elect a Prime Minister, and ALL members of the cabinet are unelected, because they are chosen personally by the First Lord of the Treasury. We vote for our constituency representatives. {:o:O:}

[@biggobmalc8118]

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 it's their money that the BBC is spending or rather wasting that’s why. So, what's wrong with being held accountable for spending someone else's money. Because right now the BBC is just a black hole for all those who pay the TV tax, and surely, they are entitled to know where their money is being spent or wasted in the case of the BBC.

[@philbeesley9265]

Lineker is the reason i stopped my BBC licence

[@tomsmedley9886]

so glad me or my family no longer pay MR G L pay packet for reading an autocue . keep it up mate.

[@spokes1018]

Not really bothered either way, quite happy to go to pub to watch a live match with the extra 170 quid in my wallet.

[@Aberbrothock1]

Exactly, that pays for a few rounds at the pub and a kebab on the way home.

[@martinoconnor4314]

@@Aberbrothock1 And an Air Freshener for the morning after?

[@doubleplusgoodthinker9434]

Cut it....and Lineker.

[@paulmatley8818]

Lineker is the puppy that keeps peeing on the carpet but the Beeb is rubbing our nose in it...

[@user-zu6qn9ux9n]

No need for the bbc to spend that kind of money when highlights are on KZbin!

[@j0hnf_uk]

Those selling the rights to, 'highlights', of premier league games are obviously hoping the BBC will cough up, regardless of how much they're swindling them out of. ITV and the other companies don't see it as economically viable, i.e. they know it's not going to make them money, so aren't bothered at all by them. They've already reached the point of being greedy, in that they expect the BBC to pay regardless of how much more it's going to be the next time it comes up for sale. They could drop the lot as far as I'm concerned. Sky television and the premier league when it came into operation at the end of the 80's, had already snatched televising of football games at a bargain price, and weren't ever going to let go of their major money-spinner. Having the gall to sell, 'highlights', to the BBC, at what is no doubt a ridiculous price for what it is. There was a time when those who were behind these sports would fall over themselves to get on TV, but that before the big money men, i.e. Murdoch and co. got in on it, offering more than the BBC were ever going to give them to show live matches. And, it just burgeoned from then on, selling the rights worldwide to any and all who wanted them, and with it being a, 'sellers market', they could charge whatever the hell they liked, knowing they'd never refuse. There's far too much money involved, now.

[@voteDC]

The BBC don't care who broadcast the games as the people watching have to pay them for permission to watch anyway via the TV License. Sky pay over a Billion a year IIRC for their Premier League games, so the BBC playing £200 million for several years of highlights is a bargain in comparison, especially since as I said they get paid for the permission to watch those matches on Sky.

[@stoictablet5681]

Stopped watching premier League when they all started kneeling. Not missed it, not going back. Stopped watching MSM nearly 4 years ago, you won't miss it!

[@richardbutler4488]

BBC should bid sod all then 😊

[@timg1246]

That idea will never occur to them. Easy come easy go, when it comes to the BBC and spending.

[@johnblack6161]

Dont care,im fed up with prima donas in footie.

[@emperorsnewclothes9405]

why not apply to the premier league to find the price of ' match of the day with CJC '

[@timg1246]

Because they are not subject to FOI requests, being a private organisation.

[@gmo4250]

Because you don't need to. It's easy to find out how much the BBC pay, they even say so themselves.

[@realhass]

thanks I honestly don't remember last time I watch match of the day and mainstream channels respectively.

[@InimitaPaul]

Premier League highlights are free on KZbin hours before they’re broadcast on BBC1 and I can watch the games I want in the order I want, the only reason to watch MotD is for the commentary team. Each to their own but the BBC would have to pay me to listen to Gary Lineker and the rest of them.

[@user-rn9ww6yv7m]

I could never understand why we need to pay over paid overrated sport pundits to analyse a football match that we've just watched , no matter what they have to say is going to change the results lm sure the BBC could save a fortune dispensing with their services.

[@richardmattocks]

So companies that need to make money aren’t bothered. Fascinating, and good for them. I wish the BBC would let them lapse or just bid £1 and use a regular voice-over on a normal salary rather than in-vision presenters. Time to cut all these expensive shows and people.

[@djmattblack]

You can normally watch highlights of every game about 30 minutes after full time on KZbin and if you wait a day most clubs put up extended highlights of the games as well. I was reading that the BBC are due to talk to Lineker about his contract next year and are hoping that the fact they now have Champions league highlights as well that he will sign a new deal

[@paulmitchell4544]

Some person from the other channels might give you an idea of the costs and why it wasn't worth the money 🤔

[@alunjones3860]

Supporters of the TV licence would use this as an argument in their favour, because the would say it's something which wouldn't be on TV, if it wasn't for the BBC.

[@ravingnutter1698]

Another point is '' you only get less than half the matches now on a Saturday so no point showing less than half on a Saturday night and the others are on a Sunday & Monday and Friday nights are see on KZbin before Saturday night anyway, also the so-called viewers now tend to watch the highlights on other media forms so not worth bidding for. Looks like the Premier League may have to take a wage cut along with the players. 😂

[@georgespeller2632]

Also sending Gardeners World presenter to USA. …is that what we want in UK or just a holiday for presenter….obviously have too much of our Monet..

[@Martinw_909]

It’s shame people haven’t found away to watch 3pm Saturday live games yet 😂

[@daveb2wright]

If only they would drop the football and that dancing thing I would be so happy.

[@nuttylivett2713]

Why don’t linker home the boat people

[@Big_Gaz_1]

I can think of 200 million + good reasons for not bidding for match of the day lol

[@johnhooton8299]

The cancelling the BBC Tax has a knock-on effect of lowering the viewers for ITV Ch 4 etc they may lose advertisers and thus revenue, so you would think the government would step in and make the BBC sort some other method of payment because if this trend continues, we may lose more than the BBC?

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

Hopefully the BBC go out of business.

[@spokes1018]

Not really, we pay 3.99 for itv x so the wife can watch coronation Street without the adverts. ITV has increased their revenue with this new service. Its a whole lot cheaper than pay the BBC licence for rubbish.

[@williams4434]

@@spokes1018 3.99 x 52 = £207 per year, so the bbc licence is an absolute bargain

[@davidtruscott9309]

KZbin highlights no bullshit

[@nickcastings1568]

If no one else is bidding for it, the BBC should offer £5 or £6.. if that!

[@rjw4762]

I do not have SKY or Amazon or Applce - so I do watch MOTD for my football fix. Lineker presenting it actually puts me off - a man paid £1.3m each year for 200 hours work p.a. chatting to his mates about their old jobs. Madness - but it's the BBC all over - he holds the right views for them. Shearer too is a Labour party voter. Tories have had 13 years to tell BBC that the Licence Fee is being halved (they have lost 25% of their audience this past 20 years !!!) - but nothing will happen.

[@petersmith9470]

Can't understand why the premier League just doesn't do season tickets for viewing matches live, home club gets more than the away team and the provider gets the rest. It goes worldwide live anyway so it'll cost very little to set up. If you support a particular team why would you be interested in watching most of the other matches?

[@bomberdores1]

He should never be on television ever again

[@ccampbell1117]

Don’t count on the BBC getting it any cheaper even if there isn’t any other interest . Do you think they are bright enough not to offer more for the next contract , they like wasting money . As a public sector broadcaster they could have not bothered to tender as it was free to air and the commercial stations would have gobbled it up in the past . Thus the public would have got their football highlights ( not on BBC ) and Aunty could have spent the money saved on more worthy broadcasting projects such as Lord Reith envisaged and we would never have had to suffer Lineker .

[@fazerguy5654]

Stopped watching when they started kneeling, not there was anything on to get me to the time that it came on. Also stopped watching on u tube when they knelt

[@lloydburdis1277]

Lineker what a thumb and forefinger.

[@user-he5so4gz4r]

If nobody else is bidding why are the BBC paying so much? Lineker's an overrated talking head, our village idiot could do as good a job. Just goes to show they're profligate with other people's money, it isn't good business practice. Glad I don't pay for it!

[@pjmoseley243]

No presenter ex ball kicker of otherwise is worth millions of pounds worth of OAP pension money.

[@iangascoigne8231]

You may as well ask why does the BBC spend money on anything. But let’s have a pop at Lineker, which is the real reason.

[@arthurvasey]

Who wants to pay to watch highlights? Even the TV channels dedicated to specific football clubs don’t provide live commentary of the matches, neither home or away, of the teams that they are dedicated to, instead preferring to show it after it’s finished - yet have the cheek to charge an amount of money that lets fans think that they do provide live commentary - my second youngest sister - a dyed-in-the-wool Middlesbrough supporter - paid a substantial sum of money to Boro TV in the belief that they would be providing live commentary of even the away matches - even if it meant taking a feed from the home team’s television channel - on this occasion, they were at home to some other team - my sister put on her Boro strip, made herself some snacks and got some booze in and settled down to watch the live commentary that she’d paid good money for - only for the channel to not go over live to the ground and just played music all the time - after about half an hour with no sign of them going over there, she phoned Boro TV and asked where the match was - only to be told that they don’t broadcast the match live or even have reports from the ground - they recorded it and played it back later - she cancelled her subscription!

[@MartinBennett12]

1:14 because of soccer Saturday on sky news

[@ianmorris6437]

Thought BBC had hooks in ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, seem to remember someone on you tube reporting about BBC and others working together to suppress or promote something. Honestly was not really paying attention at the time, sick of hearing about these backroom deals and bias.

[@keithfreeman7725]

I thought the beeb had a 50% share of ch4?

[@garylovell6017]

Jon, forgive me for asking but have you already put out this video or one very much like it recently? I could have sworn I've seen you say this before today?!!!

[@nigelground283]

Love how you quote from the Daily Mail ......what a surprise....Let's be honest , He said something you guys don't agree with and you've been wetting your pants over it ever since.

[@paulsimmonds2030]

The BBC famously covered F1 and to be honest, I miss F1 coverage beginning to the sounds of ‘The Chain’ I don’t know who thought the instrumental section of the chain would work, but whoever it was was a genius! However, F1 was another great sporting event that the BBC had to give up. But when a broadcasting Corporation sends out a whole broadcast unit and massive team of staff AND put those staff in luxury hotels, then is it any wonder why the BBC loses the right to cover big events..

[@nonickname5850]

Very interesting vid, well done!!

[@surreyscouse2873]

Jeez, whos doing their price negotiations, the NHS?

[@dlawrence3187]

The BBC is funded by a compulsory tax but they pay Lineker through his production company to avoid tax. Immoral?

[@Zoro007]

He's about as interesting to watch as a Scientific Covid Information Chart that's left over from Boris's old nightly updates........😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@BedsitBob]

I don't care how much they pay, because it's not any of my money they're spending. 😊

[@robertzanchi4630]

Having taken your advice I don't have a license so don't watch live TV and I definitely don't watch the Biased Brussels Corporation

[@SuperMinimadness]

Could you not request a foi form the football rights holder for the previous cost?

[@Blackcountrysteam]

Ask ITV they'll know what the BBC paid

[@williamhall667]

Im 36 and when I told my mum she doesn't need a licence, she went and brought one using my name after claiming to be skint and in need. So i've effectively ended up paying for one. 😵‍💫

[@timg1246]

Could you please tell her that I do not have to pay my Onlyfans subscriptions. Warning, it may be more than £159.

[@williamhall667]

@@timg1246 🤣

[@Daniel-deMerrivale]

I used to love football. Cannot stand it now. Tippy tappy rubbish by over paid ballerinas kicking a lightweight ball and just hype from Big Ears.

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

I never had a tv license sinse i left home 40 years and i wont because i don't have a TV 😂

[@bobafet6064]

Quite honestly, it's the only thing I'd bother to watch on the BBC, nothing, zip, nada else of interest on that channel.

[@gmo4250]

There is no secret with regard the MOTD, the BBC and other media report that the cost for the rights is £70.5m per year. With regard the highlights on KZbin, they are only just over 2 minutes long per game, match of the day will show considerably more for their main match.

[@themsmloveswar3985]

People are switching off soccer on the TV.

[@brendanbishop3684]

Does anybody watch all the games highlights? probably not, maybe their own club and big or controversial games, KZbin allows you to watch the bits you want at your convenience, early not waiting til 10+ o clock

[@GG-kp4gy]

It could be that no one else is bidding for motd because of the ripple that BBC lossing highlights would cause a cross the industry. We have three other public service broadcasters who will all have an interest in the charter renewal in 2025. If been is seen as not worthy for highlights or even for licence funding then what implications would this have for public attitudes towards other broadcasters? Do you have figures for what the viewing figure trends are across the industry?

[@keithfreeman7725]

BBC is the only public service broadcaster, the rest fund themselves with advertising.

[@matthewmallan1995]

Got rid of BBC after Savil. But subbed anyway.

[@user-nm4bq9yc6y]

Doing the math, the bbc pay 185k per premiership match just to show the highlights, how on earth is that value for money, add on presenters wages takes the figure, obviously, even higher. The bbc could make a huge dent in their £300+ million deficit just by axing this outdated program.

[@hughmunn6163]

Do the "bbc" really need to spend so much money for this outdated programme?

[@bonzobanana1]

Why are the BBC bidding for content that is available for free on youtube? Surely they could put that 200 million towards their pension deficit?

[@Brookspirit]

MOTD is outdated and irrelevant, and Linekar would never earn that much anywhere else, the whole thing is a complete waste of money.

[@markweatherill]

It's the fake commentaries that always annoy me about any football highlights programme.

[@GaryJohnWalker1]

As you say, others aren't interested since they have sfa interest in providing a public service. And a MOTD with ad breaks every 5 mins - much like itv's hopeless f1 coverage years ago - would be unwatchable

[@stever7097]

I think they will chop MOTD in 2025 and Lineker and the other two stooges will be out of a job. Fingers crossed.

[@grahamcook9289]

The fact is that I can watch the Premier League games highlights within 30 minutes of the end of the game, whatever day and time the game takes place. I can also choose which game highlights to watch and WITHOUT the boring waste of time preamble by Lineker and co and the even more pointless post highlights so called analysis. And I can rewatch, freeze and rewind as many times as I like. The BBC Match of the Day is dead in the water and has been for some time. Lineker is a dead man walking. Perhaps he should stand as a loonies leftie candidate for the Labour Party at the top coming general election instead?

[@davidtomkins2152]

Lineker has something on the bbc,he’s not worth anything bore.

[@georgemorrison9280]

and he’s not interesting .

[@geoffball4431]

Stopped paying BBC many years ago. They’re threatening to visit me everypther week but they never see them

[@tommay1959]

Don’t do it.

[@JohnSmith-qm6xx]

NEVER WATCH BBC THEY CAN GET LOST!!

[@nozyparker]

MOTD is rubbish & pointless as they only show 3-5 minutes of every game, the opinions are extremely bias in the favour of the big team's

[@timg1246]

I have never understood why people think that particular sports MUST be free to air. It should be a commercial decision for the sport associations and TV companies.

[@petemccalam5727]

Hi John, just wanted to say hahahahahahahhahhhhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahah.

[@lauriebhoy1984]

£3 a week for a wheen of tv and radio stations , all with no fkn adverts , specially that radio which I listen to more than watch telly . I know all their faults and couldn't give a toss , they're still the best at what they do , and we know you all still watch it .

[@Martinw_909]

I don’t even £3 a week is not really worth it

[@lauriebhoy1984]

Is life a struggle mate ? Chips are dearer .@@Martinw_909

[@stuartb4525]

Me personally certainly don't watch any tv. I haven't even attempted to switch the box on since around early April 2020 when I worked out every news channel was telling us lies about the C19. I find my entertainment elsewhere.

[@NowFunStarts]

I love BBC1 BBC2 and BBC4 plus i listen to BBC radio2 and radio4 and it costs me £14/month, GREAT value for money. Not quite sure what you want from a Broadcaster.

[@Martinw_909]

😂 very funny