Not happy with this explosion of TV interest. 3 League games already not available to RamsTV from the first 6 of the season. Now another 3 in an 8 day period in October. That will mean 6 of the opening 15 games won't have been available to we expats.
The contracts between the EFL, TV companies and clubs state that televised games can't be made available to subscribers for streaming. I understand that and agree totally that, when a game is televised in your country of residence, TV rights will mean that you don't get to see the RamsTV stream.
In the Netherlands, Ziggo owns the rights. If Sky/BT/Whoever show the game in the UK, we can't get a DCFC stream. If the game has been bought for international TV coverage we don't get it either. The strange thing about this is that Ziggo don't broadcast many SBC games despite them owning the rights. This gives the ridiculous situation that a game is being televised somewhere, Ziggo DON'T broadcast it in the Netherlands but, for some strange reason, RamsTV making it available to me breaks Ziggo's TV rights agreement.
Last season I wrote to Derby, Sky, EFL and Ziggo to ask exactly why games not televised in NL can't be streamed here. No reply from Sky. Derby and the EFL both said "beacuse it's in the agreement.
Ziggo? The company whose rights would apparently be violated if a game they weren't broadcasting was streamed to RamsTV subscribers in NL said they didn't understand why streaming wasn't allowed and they would have no issue with the streaming of games they chose not to broadcast. I explained this to both Derby and the EFL and the only response was the contracts don't allow it. I asked what logic was behind this stupidity. None was provided.