Artem Frankov: “The result of the telepool story: UAF “dumped” its business partners”

Well-known Ukrainian journalist Artem Frankov summed up the high-profile story of the attempt by the UPL and UAF to create a single TV pool for broadcasting matches of the Ukrainian championship on the basis of the Setanta Sports broadcaster.

“While we were experiencing the monstrously contradictory results of our teams, the problem of a single telepool was solved. Well, how did you decide...

Canva: 11 clubs signed a contract with Setanta (16.2 million for three years), 5 still intended to place and place their broadcasts on Pluses, that is, in the public domain. The details are not important.

Dynamo: “We were ready to transfer the rights and even pay a fine to the Pluses, with which we have a long-term contract, but on one condition - broadcasting matches on a nationwide and accessible channel, and not somewhere on a paid service. Practice has shown that the difference in views is an order of magnitude, and for a club this is more critical than money.”

Court: the clubs are right.

UPL: we will challenge the activities of the five splitting clubs in court.

Verkhovna Rada: a law was adopted (317 votes in favor), according to which the concepts of "event organizer" and "competition organizer" are separated. The organizer of the event (match) is the club, the organizer of the competition is clear who (if you like, the UPL, which in its current state is a pocket organization of the FFU / UAF). The rights belong to the first, and he can exclusively voluntarily transfer them to the second.

Bottom line: the UPL, or rather the FFU/UAF, "threw" business partners.

Question closed once again? Whether there will be more, the topic is one of the eternal ones... Even during the war,” Frankov wrote in the latest issue of the electronic version of the Football magazine.