Gidi Lipkin
Luzon, Garlic, Shahar, Barkat and Abu Yunis (ONE website photographers)
Following the failure of the tender for the broadcasting rights of Israeli football conducted by the director of the football leagues, officials in 9 teams out of 14 in the Premier League wrote a letter to the chairman of the director, Erez Kalfon, asking to convene the director’s board immediately. The future of Israeli football ”and even to the“ failure of the principal ”.
“In light of our objections to embarking on the Independent Channel venture in the midst of an economic crisis and extreme uncertainty, we demand an immediate convening of the Executive Board with a decision on the immediate transfer of negotiations from the Executive to the Owners’ Representation on Broadcast Rights, which will include Avi Luzon, Alona Barkat, Sharon Nisnov and Moshe are celebrating, “the group’s owners wrote.
The letter is signed by Muhammad Abu Yunis from Bnei Sakhnin, Alona Barkat from Hapoel Beer Sheva, Yaakov Shachar from Maccabi Haifa, Avi Luzon from Maccabi Petah Tikva, Meir Ben Zaken from Ashdod CBS, Izzy Shretzky from Kiryat Shmona, Sharon Nisnov from Hapoel Tel Aviv, Gil Cohen from Hapoel Hadera And Yitzhak Shom from Hapoel Kfar Saba.
It should be noted that the auction ended last week, and the administration is pushing to establish an independent broadcast channel “OTT”, because they say this is the future and where the groups will be able to control the sale. As far as the principal was concerned it was to put as much money in the tender as possible for the benefit of the teams. She could have sold for much less money, but for the principal it is not the main thing to sell – but the question of how much, and the principal is trying to maximize the sale of rights, when for her it is time to move on to OTT and not be captive.
There is no doubt that the whole issue of selling the broadcasting rights is creating a huge storm, on the verge of an earthquake. It should be noted that even so Kalfon does not earn big money as chairman of the board in what should have been a part-time job and became because of the corona as a work around the clock, when anywhere else he could have made much more money with his abilities and skills.
