quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2012

Zon? Quem tem cú, tem medo.

"Portuguese soccer club Benfica - who plan to move the screening of league matches to their own Benfica TV - will be forced by the country's anti-trust authority to allow all national pay-TV operators to access the broadcasts, analysts say.
Benfica, which has the largest fanbase in Portugal, re-elected Luis Filipe Vieira as their president on Saturday after he pledged to move the broadcasting of league matches to the club's television channel to boost revenues.
The Lisbon club's move has made TV operators in the profitable business jittery given Benfica matches top television audiences in Portugal week in, week out.
In Portugal, around 70 percent of the broadcasting rights revenues estimated at around 75 million euros ($97.7 million) per season go to the so-called "big-three" soccer clubs - Benfica, Sporting and Porto.
As in neighbouring Spain, TV contracts in Portugal are negotiated on a club-by-club basis, unlike in the English Premier League and Italy's Seria A, where collective bargaining deals are struck.
Market analysts say the club's large viewing base means that, after matches move to Benfica TV, the club will not be able to negotiate TV rights with one pay-TV operator alone because it would violate fair-competition rules.
"We expect the anti-trust authority to step in and make sure the broadcasting of Benfica TV may be done by all pay-TV operators," analysts at BPI bank in Lisbon wrote in a research note on Tuesday, saying the regulator will force Benfica to give all five of Portugal's operators a fair chance to bid.
Many Portuguese football fans have expressed their unhappiness about there being no league matches on open channels this season, as they have to pay an expensive fee to watch them on specialised channels.
Benfica TV comes in cheaper cable TV packages offered by Portugal Telecom and Sonaecom, but the channel is not available in other operators.
Currently, one operator, Olivedesportos' PPTV, has the rights to all domestic professional football games and platforms. They are subsequently re-sold to Sport TV channel, jointly-owned by Olivedesportos entrepreneur Joaquim Oliveira and telecom company Zon.
In March, Benfica said no to a 111 million euros proposal from Olivedesportos for the broadcast of their home matches between 2013 and 2018.
Benfica and the anti-trust body were not available to comment. (Reporting by Filipe Alves, Writing by Daniel Alvarenga)"


Traduzindo, já estão a levantar a questão de os jogos só passarem no MEO, poder violar as leis de concorrência. O mesmo já se passou com a Sportv.

Mas há diferenças e um novo contexto:

  • A Sportv é um canal pago, o que não é o caso da BTV. Luís Filipe Vieira já disse que numa primeira fase o canal não seria pago. 
  • A Sportv não foi obrigada a ceder os direitos de um jogo semanal para transmissão em canal aberto, tal como obrigava a legislação
  • Uma batalha nos tribunais e reguladores pode demorar meses. Que impacto terá na ZON uns meses, ou um ano, de Benfica TV não paga e com 15 jogos do Benfica? 





Karma is a bitch e a Zon vai receber, com juros, os 2 anos de boicote que fez ao nascimento da BTV.

1 comentário:

  1. olha que chicos espertos estes do BPI, acho piada quando mais abaixo no texto descrevem exactamente aquilo que os espertinhos do BPI estão a dizer que é ilegal, mas que é feito actualmente pela oliverdesportos, enfim santa hipocrisia.

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