Imagine it’s
ice hockey world cup and nobody is watching. That’s pretty much the case at the
moment with the championships taking place in Helsinki and Stockholm at the
moment. Since the broadcasting rights were too expensive the public TV station
YLE doesn’t show any of the games. The private broadcasting company around MTV3
got the rights this time but will only show games of the Finnish national team
on free TV (MTV3 and AVA). For everything else you have to buy a
pricy subscription for Channel+ or via
the online platform Katsomo.
And if you
don’t plan on paying ridiculous amounts of money watching a game live in the stadium
is also out of question. Prices for games in the first round start from 90
Euros. For a Finland game you have to calculate with at least 150 Euros per
ticket. No wonder that the stadiums in Stockholm and Helsinki half full in best
case.
The only
chance to see the games is going to one of the sports bars.
It’s really
a pity how the greed of the organizers made the world cup in one of the most
ice hockey crazy countries in the world such a disaster.
For those
who want to get at least some world cup feeling into their homes here a list of
the games shown in free
TV:
05/06 16:00 Finland – Slovakia MTV3
05/08 19:55 Finland – Switzerland AVA
05/10 19:55 France – Finland AVA
05/11 19:55 Finland
– Canada AVA
05/13 16:00 Finland
– USA MTV3
05/14 19:55 Kazakhstan
– Finland AVA
05/17 18:10 Quarterfinal
3 AVA
05/19 14:15 Semifinal
1 MTV3
18:10 Semifinal 2 AVA
05/20 15:40 third-place
game AVA
20:15 Final AVA
It's not World Cup, it's World Championships.
ReplyDeleteIt's so expensive to see hockey live these days. It has a lot to do with what were paying hockey players. They do have a short career but overall they are paid way to much. Our culture is to obsessed with entrainment.
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