Never to the dark side Posted March 8, 2022 Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 Was in Walkabout pub over the weekend and staff said that they are not allowed to show red button games anymore. Is this correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted March 8, 2022 Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 5 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said: Was in Walkabout pub over the weekend and staff said that they are not allowed to show red button games anymore. Is this correct? I didn't think they ever were allowed to show them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted March 8, 2022 Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just now, weepywall said: I didn't think they ever were allowed to show them. Suggest Walkabout weren’t using a “pub sub” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 9, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Correct they never had the facility But bar contracts can open the channel listing, scroll back from the last channel and the red button games all appear once broadcast has started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted March 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Thanks for the replys, but I recall some one said in the past about the last game Bristol City played at Griffin Park. They were in the Griffin pub and watched the Brentford v City game as they could not get a ticket for the game Maybe the pub had a commercial subscription as well as a domestic home subscription,and thats what they were using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 9, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 5 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: Thanks for the replys, but I recall some one said in the past about the last game Bristol City played at Griffin Park. They were in the Griffin pub and watched the Brentford v City game as they could not get a ticket for the game Maybe the pub had a commercial subscription as well as a domestic home subscription,and thats what they were using. Good old VPN airways I expect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Pretty sure that pubs haven't been supposed to be showing red button games since late 2018! Unless something changed. VPN airways notwithstanding of course, as @phantom mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 9, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Pretty sure that pubs haven't been supposed to be showing red button games since late 2018! Unless something changed. VPN airways notwithstanding of course, as @phantom mentioned. Definately now available - was in a bar in Weston recently with a QPR red button game being shown, but only became aware of this recently BBC red button channels used to do the same, not sure if that is still the case 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) Some articles from the time. https://www.matchpint.co.uk/blog/1845/about-the-analysts-notepad-premier-predictor-gameweek-8 URL is misleading...dunno why it references PL predictions! https://talksport.com/football/efl/448214/efl-sign-595million-broadcast-agreement-sky-sports/ 2 minutes ago, phantom said: Definately now available - was in a bar in Weston recently with a QPR red button game being shown Happy to look further, but that's surprising if done officially. I don't remember announced change back but I guess Covid has blurred 2 years into one in a way. Edited March 9, 2022 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted March 9, 2022 Admin Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 39 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Happy to look further, but that's surprising if done officially. I don't remember announced change back but I guess Covid has blurred 2 years into one in a way. Agree I never heard it announced and only appears to be those with pub subscriptions As a heads up the channel only seems to appear very last minute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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