Nbote:
If ordinary NTA cannot air Nigerian League matches, what is their sporting use. Largest TV ntwrk with d poorest visuals and programmes. Only NTA stations still look like an '80s movie

ayam telling you...silver bird is bae jare

CHANGE IS HERE

Buhari is working! Sterling performance / result is been achieved. Wailers are sad and angry!

Ghost matches by VHS pixel NTA

That means we can no longer watch our league again..

cause am pretty sure is would either by
sound not working or no signal
and carrying only one camera to record a match..


NTA is the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria.

Pavore9:
NTA that will have no qualms in switching from a live match broadcast to a political rally!

This deal is not about NTA buying the broadcast rights to show the league. Rather, the league and NTA will create a separate company whose sole purpose is to produce the television programmes for the league. This new company will show live matches and highlights and sell the signals to other television companies around the world. The new company will have its own staff and equipment and they must produce clean and clear signals or nobody will buy their package.

They intend to sell this package to other TV companies like Supersports, Kwese Sports, Star Times, etc.

There are many leagues that own the production companies that televise their matches.

Great! Our football leagues is getting somwhere

This is only possible because Buhari is not aware of it.

mrlaw93:
Buhari is working

Nbote:
If ordinary NTA cannot air Nigerian League matches, what is their sporting use. Largest TV ntwrk with d poorest visuals and programmes and ancient presenters who make u wonder how dey got d jobs in d first place jus like Union Bank staffs. Only NTA stations still look like an '80s movie and qualify as d most boring TV station in d history of boring..

Nbote in as much i agree with you that NTA has been backwards in their affairs and not meeting up to standard which is very obvious, but i differ in you relating or equating them with union bank. if I may ask, when was the last time you visited a union bank branch? These guys are seriously transformed, trust me you will be amazed at what you will experience and see when you visit one. Infact union bank was rated number 9 in jobberman top 100 companies to work in Nigeria 2016( www./blog/jobberman-best-100-companies-work-nigeria-2016/ ).

Which Buhari?


quote author=deji17 post=60258310]CHANGE IS HERE

Buhari is working! Sterling performance / result is been achieved. Wailers are sad and angry![/quote]

Everything is politics in this country. How much is nta paying to air the matches?? Or they are waiting for glo to dash them money??

NTA wen nor fit broadcast ordinary match from Camaroon ....ar nor do jooooooooor

naptu2:


http://www.npfl.ng/index.php/news-features/lmc-news-updates/2461-lmc-nta-sign-broadcast-production-agreement



https://mobile.twitter.com/LMCNPFL

It seems like many people did not read the post and have no idea what the deal is about. I believe that this is one of the results of the meeting between the League Management Company and officials of the English Premier League earlier this year.

This should give you an idea of what the League Management Company is trying to establish. They are trying to establish a TV company whose main responsibility is to televise the Nigerian League, just like Premier League Productions in England.

Inside Premier League Productions: the company you know nothing about servicing 730m homes every matchday.



FFT’s Chris Flanagan went behind the scenes at IMG Studios to discover more about the broadcasting juggernaut behind England’s top flight known worldwide – except the country it hails from…

By Chris Flanagan
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On a cold Tuesday night, FourFourTwo finds itself inside the beating heart of the Premier League's global machine. Everywhere you look there's a vast whirring mass of technical equipment and wires, the arteries from which live pictures are pumped out to every corner of the planet.

This epicentre is not at Old Trafford, the Emirates or the Etihad. Instead it's an eerily unpopulated room in Uxbridge, west London. It feels like the sort of room you'd see in any factory up and down the country, if it wasn't for the sign asking visitors to tread quietly – because Owen Hargreaves, Andy Townsend & Co. are busy broadcasting to 730 million homes in a studio on the floor below.

There are a few countries that we don't broadcast to, I think North Korea is one. But the Vatican City has it, so the Pope is probably watching
- Nick Moody, Head of PLP

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This is IMG Studios, headquarters of Premier League Productions: the television company responsible for broadcasting England's top flight to 185 countries overseas. Their dedicated 24-hour channel may not be available in this country, but every second of it is being lapped up live almost 10,000 miles away in the Solomon Islands, and in plenty of other places too



Teething problems

You'd have someone calling from Thailand saying we have pictures from Manchester United but the commentary is from West Brom. All those sorts of things were happening

- Graham Fry, managing director of IMG's sports production

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It doesn’t seem so long ago that, aside from the live televised games and two or three featured on Match of the Day, coverage of the rest of the Premier League consisted of 30-second clips of the goals and not much else.

Now every single match is beamed live across the globe with the same production qualities as Super Sunday or any game screened by Sky or BT in this country. The Premier League Productions operation is huge, encapsulated by the impressively gigantic building from which they work, designed by Norman Foster.

"It's amazing how things have grown, I would never have imagined it," says Graham Fry, managing director of IMG's sports production worldwide. Premier League Productions is just one arm of the company, but now comfortably the biggest.




"We first bought the rights to the Premier League worldwide with Canal Plus in 1998. PLP was formed in 2004, and the channel started in 2010. At first every match was a three-camera outside broadcast, then six cameras, then eight.

"The aim when we started was just to try to get everything on the air. You were worrying that we had to distribute games to all these parts of the world; technically we weren't as robust then and the broadcasters overseas weren't used to handling what was being thrown at them.

"You'd have someone calling from Thailand saying we have pictures from Manchester United but the commentary is from West Bromwich Albion. All those sorts of things were happening. They don't seem to happen so much now."

Pick and choose
Next season there's expected to be a Saturday afternoon Goal Rush programme too, like Soccer Saturday but with the added ability to show all of the goals as they happen
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It's experience that has allowed PLP to expand and provide an increasingly more detailed service to the many overseas broadcasters they work with. There are seven magazine shows a week, plus documentary-style programmes and a news channel complete with their own roving reporters, akin to Sky Sports News.

In one part of the building there are staff dedicated to pre-match promotional videos – we're shown a clip of an eagle swooping menacingly in a darkened warehouse, available to overseas broadcasters to promote the recent fixture between Crystal Palace and Chelsea.

Then on matchdays, overseas TV rights holders are provided with a plethora of added extras – stats graphics, wide angle cameras for scene-setting and tactical analysis, player interviews within seconds of the final whistle, and a camera following one particular player for the whole match. Tonight it appears to be focused on Newcastle’s Georginio Wijnaldum.

There are plans to expand coverage of the under-21 league and next season there's expected to be a Saturday afternoon Goal Rush programme too, like Soccer Saturday but with the added ability to show all of the goals as they happen.

With all of PLP's added extras, the idea is that overseas broadcasters take what they need – allowing them to tailor their coverage to the interests of their own country, rather than just being forced to generically show the same TV feed as every other nation. In total, around 5,000 hours of footage are distributed each week.

"People still want more, it's amazing," Fry beams with delight.

Teaching the rest

You always have that question of how much further it can go, but then it goes further
- Nick Moody

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The Premier League logo features heavily on everything. The brand continues to build and build. The current overseas rights deal is worth £743m a year, a figure that is tipped to increase when the next agreement is finalised.

"Interest in the Premier League is still getting bigger," Moody says. "You always have that question of how much further it can go, but then it goes further.

"We've responded to the demand. As the Premier League have sold more rights and the value of those rights have gone up, the requirements and the demands that go with it need to increase as well. We have to find a way of adding value to it. I'm a producer by trade so I'm always thinking, ‘If I was in a studio in Doha, or in Connecticut for NBC, what would I want?'

"The action on the pitch is what decides the value of the rights. Although we're part of it, I wouldn't be so arrogant as to say they're paying that amount of money because of what PLP do.

"But what is interesting is that the likes of BT will go to the Bundesliga and say, 'What you're giving us is great, but why can't you do it like PLP do it? Why can't we have this or that?'

"That's a great sense of pride. The Bundesliga came over here and we showed them around, did a presentation and gave them the experience of what we're doing here. Other institutions are looking at it and thinking, 'What we do we need to do? Why does it work for them?'

"The other leagues are all trying to catch up, so our job is to look at what we can do to stay ahead."

Football at 30,000 feet

Ninety seven per cent of engagement with our Facebook page comes from outside the UK
- Nick Noble, Premier League head of news and corporate communications

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Mark Pougatch, who is also ITV's regular football anchor, is the presenter in the studio on the night of our visit. James Richardson, Manish Bhasin and Kelly Cates are others to work for PLP but the company's main presenter is John Dykes, a man who is little known in his own country but has appeared in various promotional campaigns abroad in recent times, such is his growing popularity.

"It's interesting because our presenters and reporters go to games and you have a lot of foreign fans who all want pictures with them," Moody chuckles. "Sometimes you can see the English fans wondering, 'What's that all about? Who's that guy? Why do they want his picture?'"

We're taken on a tour of the building, quickly stumbling upon the office where the social media team are at work, in English and Mandarin. "Ninety seven per cent of engagement with our Facebook page comes from outside the UK," explains Nick Noble, the Premier League's head of news and corporate communications.

As the tour continues, each room seems to contain a bigger bank of television screens than the last. We count 200 on one wall – the majority showing various camera angles from the three Premier League matches on that night, one incongruously showing a feed from a TV station in the Middle East where contestants on some sort of gameshow appear to be dancing in oversized comedy sunglasses.

Footage from these Premier League games is now being shown live at 30,000 feet on a selection of airlines, including Turkish Airlines and Etihad.

"It's a deal-breaker," Fry says. "If you know you can watch the game, you might choose one airline over another."

Matchday live

As much as Townsend was often derided by fans during his years as ITV's main co-commentator, it's clear from these few minutes that he's the driving force behind PLP's analysis

One room in this vast building is always dedicated to the main game of the day. "People are in here every Saturday, Sunday and Monday," we're told. "Next year Friday as well."

Conversations can be heard going on with the floor manager at St James' Park as Manchester United are awarded a penalty. "No yellow card," we hear the man at the stadium feed back.

Moving on to the next room, where PLP's director and producer for the night are situated, a cry of "Goal Bournemouth!" goes up as Harry Arter curls in from outside the box against West Ham.

Then we head into the studio where Pougatch, Hargreaves and Townsend are watching the Newcastle match on a sofa beside the Premier League trophy, their duties over until half-time.

Townsend spares a couple of minutes to show us the studio's smart touch screen – a sort of tactics truck de nos jours, if you will. He uses it to analyse matches, just as Gary Neville used to do on Monday Night Football.

"You don't have to physically touch it, it works on a beam," Townsend explains. "If you touch it with your arm accidentally it can change, and that's happened a few times. But it's very good, they're becoming synonymous with pretty much any studio now. We can analyse footage, pick our own teams, swap players around, think about what the managers might do for the second half.

"It's pretty straightforward but if you do make a mistake you just have to carry on rather than standing there, freezing and looking at it, waiting for something to happen."

Not long after he says that the screen does indeed freeze, but only because staff are rebooting it ready for the half-time analysis. Townsend returns to his seat and starts to plan out what he wants to talk about at the interval. As much as he was often derided by fans during his years as ITV's main co-commentator, it's clear from these few minutes that he's the driving force behind PLP's analysis, requesting information and video clips as the action unfolds.

"Smithy, how many penalties has Mike Dean given? Can we get a graphic of where he is in the Premier League rankings?" he asks the gallery, as Newcastle have a penalty appeal rejected.

"Good goal," he applauds as Jesse Lingard puts United 2-0 up, before quickly requesting a rejig of the analysis at the interval. Soon staff arrive to re-apply make-up and bring tea ahead of the half-time whistle, and it's time for us to depart.

Truly global

There will be debates forever about which is the best league in the world, but there's clearly a reason why so many broadcasters buy the Premier League
- Graham Fry

Townsend and Hargreaves are ready to debate the talking points of a first half that has reached all parts of the globe. Every Premier League match does these days.

"I remember when I was on safari in Kenya, there was a bit of crackling on the radio and the guys started talking Swahili," Fry says. "I turned to my wife and said, 'I think they've spotted a lion or a leopard or something'. I asked them, 'What have you spotted?'. They said, 'No, Chelsea have just scored at Manchester City'.

"I've been to little villages in Zambia where they're wearing Man United and Liverpool shirts and you think, 'Wow, it's getting everywhere'. I've been in bars in Malaysia thinking, 'Half the country seem to be in this bar'. There are three or four different games being shown and that's when it really brings it home. It makes you feel pretty proud as well.

"I've been in TV since 1981 and of all the things I've done this probably ranks as the No.1, purely because you can see that you make some sort of difference. The teams and the action itself have obviously made the most difference, but the way it's packaged, sold and distributed is important.


"If there's one show we do more than any other that shows the breadth of interest around the world it's our FanZone programme. We have someone on Skype in Nigeria arguing about the Arsenal back four with somebody in Singapore, and their knowledge is fantastic. They know so much and you think, 'Gosh, these guys really follow it'.

"There will be debates forever about which is the best league in the world, but there's clearly a reason why so many broadcasters buy the Premier League. It has to be that the quality and the excitement is good.

"If you're taking it by the number of people who are watching, it's hard to argue that the Premier League isn't the biggest and the best."

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/inside-premier-league-productions-company-you-know-nothing-about-servicing-730m-fans-every#oU4342duWPeE274g.99

One of the benefits of this deal is that every single NPFL match will be broadcast live. Only a handful of matches are broadcast live right now.

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Hope they are not balloon followers?

naptu2:
One of the benefits of this deal is that every single NPFL match will be broadcast live. Only a handful of matches are broadcast live right now.

one each weekend

Awoo88:
Everything is politics in this country. How much is nta paying to air the matches?? Or they are waiting for glo to dash them money??

You definitely did not read the article. Read it and then modify your comment

naptu2:


http://www.npfl.ng/index.php/news-features/lmc-news-updates/2461-lmc-nta-sign-broadcast-production-agreement



https://mobile.twitter.com/LMCNPFL

i think say na Premier League...

Praise God and may his name be praised

learoce:


Nbote in as much i agree with you that NTA has been backwards in their affairs and not meeting up to standard which is very obvious, but i differ in you relating or equating them with union bank. if I may ask, when was the last time you visited a union bank branch? These guys are seriously transformed, trust me you will be amazed at what you will experience and see when you visit one. Infact union bank was rated number 9 in jobberman top 100 companies to work in Nigeria 2016( www./blog/jobberman-best-100-companies-work-nigeria-2016/ ).

I didn't mean it d way it probably came out.. I was trying to imply they had aged and advanced staffs though I have edited my post to exclude Union Bank. I still don't like NTA though

Its Applaudable. But I'm worried about d video quality...

Is it another NTA or the NTA I know because NTA ABA airs Church program from morning till night, Monday to Sunday. Smmh here comes the death of Nigeria League.

I have been for that partnership for the npfl in order to be able to watch live matches.
The broadcast will be a better one than that of super sport because there would be a private company to manage it and not NTA, what a good and laudable initiative. This shows seriousness. I have been thinking live broadcasting would just be abandoned since super sport breached the contract.
Well done the FG for this
Well done the League Management Company

carzola:
That means we can no longer watch our league again..

cause am pretty sure is would either by
sound not working or no signal
and carrying only one camera to record a match..


NTA is the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria.

Bro I advice you read again. There would be more efficiency in transmission because there would be adequate funding for VOB vans and world class equipments.This is far better than a pay TV like super sport helping to broadcast for us.
A good Example of these is the EPL TV and many more,it might be called NPFL tv then NTA would be the one broadcasting it.,the company might be the one producing the graphics and other things.I believe you watch the EPL and u know what I am Saying,let's just pray it succeeds

good to sign agreement BUT please help us show the Nigerian premiership league NOT super-sport copy..

LMC why disappoint me .
For a long time now.lmc as been getting its decisions very wrong.I have been a staunch advocate of the league but I most say lmc is no longer the vehicle that will lead us to the Eldorado we hoping for,don't get me wrong here.I have been a supporter of the local(hmmm) yes it is local because lmc has decided to make it so.Enyimba is my Darling club and I am ready to die for it.I have been castigated for supporting the league to the extent I am termed a local man.I would rather loose my life for enyimba than be buried in the cemetery that Chelsea football club will provide for their esteem Chelsea for life fans.
The essence of my disappointment is the increasing downtrend the league is going on.under the leadership of dikko the league seems to have lost its focus on developing the league into a viable structure. I began to love the nnl after seeing the improvement been done by kaiten led committee. The number of away win was much higher than the so called NpFl nothing is professional about the NPFL.The mou with nta for establishment of a TV production company shows you how lmc doesn't understand the issues at stake,I beg to differ if their is any superior argument to my premise.how do u televise a brand when the intending listeners have not been carried along in the running of the club.The fans are the ultimate decider in the progress of a league. Why am I saying this,simply because ,lmc came out with the PRO model in which the current ownership structure of the clubs will be transferred to a community based ownership model but sadly 4 years after that preposition nothing tangible has come out from it rather the article is busy gathering dust on their web page.I expected lmc to be aggressive in effecting the change in order to create that landmark change.
Lmc is expected to give the clubs a minimum of two month to effect the ownership structure of the various clubs.A government owned club must be privatised to the public/community/fans with government retaining just 10% .
For clubs to participate in the new season they must show that have 10,000 registered fans paying an annual fee of 10,000 naira. The participation of fans will go a long way in building the love and anticipation of the matches to be shown on air, of what use is broadcasting matches with empty stadiums. We don't need to have 20 clubs play in the league but clubs who have shown the ability to be professional must be used.lmc please make this club sell it to the public.
NFF MUST BRING IN ANOTHER COMPANY TO COMPETE WITH LMC.The little success recorded with lmc must be transferred to the second division .NFF should has a matter of urgency put the NNl for sale in order to keep the league more professional.
From rafindo a seasoned constructive
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It will function like FIFA's HBS (Host Broadcast Services), which broadcasts WC matches to several global broadcasters, who in turn, beam the pictures to our living rooms.

So i can watch Barca match live.

It's a welcome development. But hope the picture quality won't be a 19 century type been on display currently.

teamsynergy:
which stupid nta... those fool that will abandon a live match for a PDP rally coverage in kano...

just forget it ...

I dey tell u

buh we know those are lies

samsobo24:
Bro I advice you read again. There would be more efficiency in transmission because there would be adequate funding for VOB vans and world class equipments.This is far better than a pay TV like super sport helping to broadcast for us.
A good Example of these is the EPL TV and many more,it might be called NPFL tv then NTA would be the one broadcasting it.,the company might be the one producing the graphics and other things.I believe you watch the EPL and u know what I am Saying,let's just pray it succeeds

Wonderful news as we can now watch more npfl matches live which will aid the development of the league. God bless the LMC

Nbote:
If ordinary NTA cannot air Nigerian League matches, what is their sporting use. Largest TV ntwrk with d poorest visuals and programmes and ancient presenters who make u wonder how dey got d jobs in d first place. Only NTA stations still look like an '80s movie and qualify as d most boring TV station in d history of boring..