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I know this is a topic close to most of the forumista hearts on here, massive kudos to all counties that offer this service for free, unfortunately however, as was probably inevitable, Kent are now looking for charge for their own service for their home games in this seasons T20 Blast.

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Personally I feel like this will open the floodgates.
 

Would anybody here pay £6 to watch Durham if they introduced it?

I can't decide if I would or not. Not a big fan of T20 so I might do this once or twice. Couldn't do it for every match though.
 
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Aidan11 said:
Would anybody here pay £6 to watch Durham if they introduced it?

I can't decide if I would or not. Not a big fan of T20 so I might do this once or twice. Couldn't do it for every match though.
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Pretty much the same for me.

Can't see them doing it for County Cricket though, I don't see it as generating enough cash to make it worthwhile and it may easily end up reducing the audience.

Maybe the ECB should do a season ticket to view every match home and away and then distribute the takings. I bet they'd set the price too high though.
 
Aidan11 said:
Would anybody here pay £6 to watch Durham if they introduced it?

I can't decide if I would or not. Not a big fan of T20 so I might do this once or twice. Couldn't do it for every match though.
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Wouldn't ever pay to watch a Surrey T20 stream. 6 quid for a days pass of a Championship game, I'd consider.
 
Bri said:
Maybe the ECB should do a season ticket to view every match home and away and then distribute the takings. I bet they'd set the price too high though.
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This is what the nba do for basketball, and ive always been surprised more sports arent going the same way. Seems like often its just pointless as the illegal streaming is so prevalent
Aidan11 said:
Would anybody here pay £6 to watch Durham if they introduced it?
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Not in a million years.

Hopefully it wouldnt be th death of bbc commentary, not that i really bother with that all that often either for t20
 
Aidan11 said:
Would anybody here pay £6 to watch Durham if they introduced it?

I can't decide if I would or not. Not a big fan of T20 so I might do this once or twice. Couldn't do it for every match though.
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Not for T20.
Twisted said:
This is what the nba do for basketball, and ive always been surprised more sports arent going the same way. Seems like often its just pointless as the illegal streaming is so prevalent
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All the main American sports do it. The NBA and NFL versions are very good too in fairness but those sports operate on an entire policy of sharing profits with regards to practically everything - merchandise, television revenue, streaming profits, etc.
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There’s also ‘blackouts’ in the local area if a game doesn’t sell out.
 
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Can't really knock them, but I just cant see anyone paying that personally.

I kind of think its counter productive, say there is an amazing game going on and word gets about, everyone jumps on youtube, well a few thousand

It happened in our 50 over game at Somerset last year when that bloke was going nuts, and it aso happened when Stokes played and hit those 5 sixes

You miss that chance to spread the word and interest when its behind a pay wall

can see both sides
 
I wouldn't be against Durham charging a few quid truth be told, it would be still fantastic value if you don't have a membership, say £50 for a season streaming pass or £5, per game, something like that.
 
As long as it comes free in your package as a member i don't mind. I must admit since covid there have been quite a few days in the first championship block when its cold and windy and i have stayed at home and watched the stream.
As far as t20 goes i probably attend one possibly 2 per season but not sure i would pay for it.
Definitely there is counties been looking at this for a while especially Surrey and Lancs who actually have a production team with presenters for t20.
Not really watched Kents stream as we rarely play them but Durhams feels like it is miles away.
 
The quality of the stream isn’t good enough for me to pay to watch it, I’m sure there’s only two cameras, could barely see the ball when the batsman hit the ball for runs in the last game
 
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