Arsenal TV has ceased broadcasting

[mixmastermatt]

I have just been flicking through my TV channels and it says Arsenal TV has ceased broadcasting. It was advertising the other day. I didn't subscribe, so haven't lost out but I wonder why this has happened. Something to do with Setanta maybe?

[DaPrince84]

the fall of setanta... probably was losing money is what I read...

[Scally]

It went off last week along with my subscription to Setanta Ireland. Its a piss poor job by Arsenal Holdings, no statement or anything to inform us. A fcuking joke

[TheImposter]

When you pull it up online you get a screen saying that following Setanta going into administration ArsenalTV will be back soon in an online only version.

[Lanesra]

The club don't want to pay for transmission costs,which were previously covered by Setanta.

[antifan]

You'd think the club would do better with the online stuff, especially considering the new stadium has state of the art HD editing facilities. The quality of ATVO is crap.

[DaPrince84]

You'd think the club would do better with the online stuff, especially considering the new stadium has state of the art HD editing facilities. The quality of ATVO is crap.
the multimedia part of the website is still stuck in the early 2000s, right down to using windows as its player, and not something that is more accessible for more computers (like brightcove)

[Scally]

You'd think the club would do better with the online stuff, especially considering the new stadium has state of the art HD editing facilities. The quality of ATVO is crap.

The whole presentation was crap on ATV too but a lot of the quantity was very good. It used to show half hour highlights of the U-16's and the U-18's games + live reserve games. Its a lot better than the shitty streaming on ATVO

[canadagooner]

This reminds me, either today or tomorrow (maybe Nick, Jeff or Tim can confirm) I think when you log onto Arsenal.com from a US IP, you get redirected to usa.arsenal.com. This is specifically for the US with none of the ou instead of o spelling and other conveniences for the US market. Should be interesting. Those in the US will be able to learn what a free kick is and other joys.
The four of us in BW lost an hour with one Richard Clarke, who has spent 2years working on this and as of 3 weeks ago still not too clear as to what he wants. Apparently there's a part timer conveniently located in Portland OR, to help out

[TheImposter]

This reminds me, either today or tomorrow (maybe Nick, Jeff or Tim can confirm) I think when you log onto Arsenal.com from a US IP, you get redirected to usa.arsenal.com. This is specifically for the US with none of the ou instead of o spelling and other conveniences for the US market. Should be interesting. Those in the US will be able to learn what a free kick is and other joys.
The four of us in BW lost an hour with one Richard Clarke, who has spent 2years working on this and as of 3 weeks ago still not too clear as to what he wants. Apparently there's a part timer conveniently located in Portland OR, to help out
It's going to be more convenient for me to read words spelled with "o" instead of "ou"? Will there be exclusive interviews with head coach Arsene Wenger?

[ArsenalTexan3]

I remember seeing something on the Arsenal website saying they weren't going to continue with ATV. That was weeks ago.

[The Jitty Slitter]

You'd think the club would do better with the online stuff, especially considering the new stadium has state of the art HD editing facilities. The quality of ATVO is crap.

Exactly.

Given they can reach an audience of millions by broadcasting from their own website direct to social media...

You can get a decent editor in the UK for no more than about 400 quid a week right now.

All of the clubs are missing a huge opportunity online - but it is because they have stupidly sold out to middleman SKY which is now actually completely redundant with the convergence of tv/broadband/mobile.

[gunner7]

It's going to be more convenient for me to read words spelled with "o" instead of "ou"? Will there be exclusive interviews with head coach Arsene Wenger?


I also want them to call it SOCCER and not football ;)

[SLO-Gunner]

All of the clubs are missing a huge opportunity online - but it is because they have stupidly sold out to middleman SKY which is now actually completely redundant with the convergence of tv/broadband/mobile.


"But while the Premier League has been proactive in tackling the problem, some feel it has been less enlightened in other ways. While US rights owners, including MLB, NFL and NHL, have been able to build lucrative online businesses around their rights, the need for the Premier League to maintain the model that has kept Sky's billions rolling in has made it more conservative. This, according to some critics, could leave them trying to hold back the tide - desperately trying to protect a business based on selling exclusive live rights while failing to come up with a new one for the digital age."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/11/premier-league-tv-rights-deals-websites

[The Jitty Slitter]

"But while the Premier League has been proactive in tackling the problem, some feel it has been less enlightened in other ways. While US rights owners, including MLB, NFL and NHL, have been able to build lucrative online businesses around their rights, the need for the Premier League to maintain the model that has kept Sky's billions rolling in has made it more conservative. This, according to some critics, could leave them trying to hold back the tide - desperately trying to protect a business based on selling exclusive live rights while failing to come up with a new one for the digital age."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/11/premier-league-tv-rights-deals-websites

Exactly.

It was speculated that this was a key reason the glazers bought Utd - it was right at the time fast internet reached critical mass in the UK.

The idea was to unbundle the TV rights from the league, and sell the broadcast rights separate to the internet rights.

The BL here is actually marketed at me mainly by tcom - my broadband provider - they upsell it from my phone and internet.

But why even do that?

You can market it like a tv series - and attract and grow your own online/mobile audience - as well as proliferate on sites like hulu and youtube, plus via select media partners. Then sell to the braodcast media like disease ridden 2bit whores they are.

But even if you do not do any of that....

SURELY you can find 400 quid a week to pay an editor who can handle a z1 to get around and hooverup exclusive footage from training and pregame.

I mean FFS!

if they stuck that on twitter i would be glued to it!

[SLO-Gunner]

Exactly.

It was speculated that this was a key reason the glazers bought Utd - it was right at the time fast internet reached critical mass in the UK.

The idea was to unbundle the TV rights from the league, and sell the broadcast rights separate to the internet rights.

The BL here is actually marketed at me mainly by tcom - my broadband provider - they upsell it from my phone and internet.

But why even do that?

You can market it like a tv series - and attract and grow your own online/mobile audience - as well as proliferate on sites like hulu and youtube, plus via select media partners. Then sell to the braodcast media like disease ridden 2bit whores they are.

But even if you do not do any of that....

SURELY you can find 400 quid a week to pay an editor who can handle a z1 to get around and hooverup exclusive footage from training and pregame.

I mean FFS!

if they stuck that on twitter i would be glued to it!

You're not going to get any argument from me. Instead these idiots are chasing down ghosts in China right now. It's not as if there isn't any precedence for online services that are actually good:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp?c_id=mlb&affiliateId=ATTRACTIONS