The Football Association of Wales (FAW) and S4C have agreed a four-year deal over terrestrial television rights to Welsh international and domestic football until 2012.

 

The new contract, which starts in the 2008/09 season, means S4C will have the rights to show exclusive highlights of Wales' home matches, including the qualifying rounds to World Cup 2010 and the European Championships in 2012, and live and highlights packages for the Principality Welsh Premier League and Welsh Cup matches.

 

David Collins, secretary general of the FAW said: "Following the successful coverage of highlights of the Welsh International matches and the excellent coverage of the Welsh Premier League and Welsh Cup over the last three years, the FAW is delighted that we are able to continue our partnership with S4C for the period 2008 - 2012. The new contract will deliver considerable coverage of the Welsh Cup and the Welsh Premier League together with the highlights of Welsh International Matches on terrestrial TV."

 

S4C will be offering a production contract for S4C football coverage through its tendering process.

 

Rhian Gibson, S4C’s director of commissioning, said: "The new contract with the FAW allows S4C to extend its commitment to Welsh football by providing free-to-air coverage of international and domestic matches. We are delighted that football will continue to be part of S4C’s extensive sporting portfolio."

 

S4C has also recently secured live and exclusive coverage of the forthcoming Cyprus v Wales Euro 2008 qualifier match, which will be broadcast live on S4C from the GSP Stadium, Nicosia on October 13.

from digitalspy

That's good tbh. Because the BBC clearly don't give a $h!t about Wales tbh, they only seem interested in buying the rights for England games and Scotland games on BBC1 Scotland. :( What do Northern Ireland get theirs on? :unsure:

That's good tbh. Because the BBC clearly don't give a $h!t about Wales tbh, they only seem interested in buying the rights for England games and Scotland games on BBC1 Scotland. :( What do Northern Ireland get theirs on? :unsure:

 

BBC i usualy. BBC only cares about england games to be fair, and if they show a scotland one it is only on BBC 1 or 2 Scotland so the rest of the UK can't see it, yet England games are forced down everyones throats, all the sports programes are about england aswell

BBC i usualy. BBC only cares about england games to be fair, and if they show a scotland one it is only on BBC 1 or 2 Scotland so the rest of the UK can't see it, yet England games are forced down everyones throats, all the sports programes are about england aswell

Uh-huh. They hardly strike a fair balance for the whole of the UK. And yeah that's a shame BBC1 don't show the Scotland games all over the country! I know I'd watch them if they were. :lol:

But considering Englands population makes up about 3/4+ of the UK as a whole it would be ridiculous not to show them.

But considering Englands population makes up about 3/4+ of the UK as a whole it would be ridiculous not to show them.

 

But the BBC only seams to talk about England, even on the national news they make a huge deal out of England, it is like, there are 3 other counties in the UK :P

But they will always give the main headlines to what most people will be interested in. It would be like showing Wigan vs Bolton on MOTD ahead of Man Utd vs Chelsea.

But they will always give the main headlines to what most people will be interested in. It would be like showing Wigan vs Bolton on MOTD ahead of Man Utd vs Chelsea.

 

It is like when i think england drew 0-0 and scotland beat france and MOTD was all about england and it is like, yawn boring game boring score, can we have the game with the shock