due to a contractual dispute between the workplace (TWP) and the one and pathetically only wee island cable service provider (CSP), wee islander's may be deprived of the rest of this season's english premiership footy (EPL). starting this weekend.
hoho. don't mean to wind anyone up but i'm totally fed up of seeing 'em spastic bandwagon amoeba's frothing at the gob at the mere mention of EPL.
ok, where was i? i must say that it's all about the dosh. i deduced that since CSP's sport channel(s) had lost all rights to telecast the FA cup and England matches to TWP, they have the effin' gall to demand the latter for a percentage of their advert revenue.
but at the other end, TWP are imploring the CSP to cough up more, due to their paying alot more now for the telecast rights. which CSP refuse, quite rightly so, as they have to pass on the costs to subscriber's. who would be well annoyed as the last increase - for the sport package - was due to the EPL programming two years ago.
however, in order to maintain their exclusive rights to broadcast the EPL in this part of the blue marble, TWP have to pay the price. in addition to the FA cup and England games for the next four seasons. which the journo failed to mention on the article.
in short, both TWP and CSP are but a bunch of greedy fooker's.
what's more baffling:
1. discussions between TWP and CSP have been going on for three month's
2. the rest of us minionic slave's - who ensure TWP's operation aspects are running smoothly - are kept in the dark of such development's that we only learnt of last week's near blackout through the press
3. likewise for today, just under an hour before we called it a day, we were told of scheduling changes; and then staying back to make the necessary amendments
to which #2 and #3 above, yes i'm completely disillusioned and absolutely pissed with TWP.
as enscribed by the letter b @ August 27, 2004 04:51 PMoh, watch this space for updates, apparently TWP - via email from the chief - are annoyed with CSP messing them about - what does that actually mean? - so i'll post about it later.
as blahed by the letter b @ August 30, 2004 07:53 AMAt the end of the day, the consumers will have to cough up more money to watch EPL. It is basically a matter of time. TWP and CSP are profit-making (read: greedy) entities anyway.
However, if Arsenal are running away with the title again this season, maybe there's no point watching, innit?
as blahed by D W @ August 30, 2004 04:42 AM