Other than just broadcasting Premier League games, British television has a number of different methods of getting football news to their audience to keep them interested in the sport and also try to attract them into watching other matches.
Sky sports, BBC and Setanta Sports have a number of different football analysis TV shows which discuss upcoming games on TV to try and hype up the games to try and draw an audience. Sky Sports have a wide variety of football discussion programmes such as “Goals on Sunday”, “Last Word” and “Sunday Supplement” which all discuss Premier League games and news. These programmes are aimed at the more hardcore football supporters as they discuss more in-depth information of the football games.
These three main broadcasters also have their on websites which is updated for every piece of sports news to allow sports fans to keep updated easily. Other than news it also maintains weekly blogs of some well known names in football such as Andy Gray and Alan Smith who gives their opinion on what has happened during the week.
Radio stations such as Talk Sport and Five Live have live football commentary for listeners who are unable to watch the games or games that are not being shown on TV. They also have callers to discuss with the Radio hosts to talk about results and other news.
Another method which Sky have introduced in the last couple of years is 24-7 Football which sends Premier League goals to subscriber’s phones to allow videos of the goals to be sent to them if they are unable to watch the game. This represents a change in the way football is watched; moving towards a more modern, bitesized format.
