How much Bolton Wanderers made from iFollow last season & 3pm Saturday domestic blackout stance
30.06.2022 - 20:23
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Bolton Wanderers made £500,000 from the iFollow streaming service last season and the League One side is keen to continue using the platform for all games apart from 3pm Saturday kick-offs and maintain the domestic blackout for those fixtures.
Wanderers supporters and those of other clubs up and down the Championship, League One and League Two became very much accustomed to watching matches via the service in the 2020/21 campaign. It was down to the action taking place largely behind closed doors owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ian Evatt's side were among the most watched sides in League Two last season via the platform as they achieved automatic promotion to League One. In the 2021/22 season, there were no domestic broadcasting or live streams of 3pm matches on Saturdays in the EFL as the position moved back to something resembling pre-pandemic rules.
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There were domestic streams allowed of midweek evening games or matches taking place on Saturdays not kicking off at 3pm that had not been chosen for broadcasting by Sky Sports. Matches which start at 3pm on Saturdays can be viewed by an international audience live on iFollow, but not by a domestic one.
Speaking exclusively to the Manchester Evening News , Wanderers chief executive Neil Hart explained that the Whites had a gross revenue of half a million pounds over the course of last season thanks to the iFollow service and was a 'fantastic' source of revenue for the club. He believes that football ought to be made as accessible as possible and streamed as much as can be done within broadcast and commercial agreements.
Wanderers chief executive Hart believes
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