I very much doubt there will be any. Everton's media team will be full time and this will be an easy fix for them. Certainly if Blackpool can put a game on against Barrow, I don't see why with the same resources that Everton's costs will be any different.
Personally I think it's done this way for both clubs to get in a bit of revenue - neither are charities, no one is being forced to pay for the game and so why not? No problems with it here.
That full time media team is a cost. It's a fixed cost but none the less a cost. If there's multiple angles and in game editing that requires equipment and people trained to use it. Graphics etc the same. The feed requires 'beaming' possibly via satellite (which you have to hire the 'space' and it's not cheap and you've got bandwidth costs (video is massive data wise) when that feed is accessed by however many people, given it's Everton, possibly a hundred thousand isn't unrealistic. I don't know, but it will be certainly more than we get for the average iFollow by a factor of quite a few.
I would imagine Everton are using a few full time staff but probably supplemented by freelance staff and maybe hired equipment. Most Prem grounds have fixed set ups that are ready to broadcast at more or less a flick of a switch. There's likely a considerable set up required at Bloomfield and it's no given that things like the vision mixer they use at Goodison can be easily transported.
I have a mate who works at LFCTV and he's freelance. He gets paid for what he does, but he's got no fixed hours. (He's quite senior as well, hes a presenter and been there for years) - he also works for several other broadcasters alongside the redshite.
I'd be happy to take what Steve says at face value but I agree, it is potentially making the club's a few quid but there are some unseen costs there that mean, unless it's absolutely madly popular, it's probably only a few quid as opposed to 5.99*50000 or whatever.
You have to deduct quite a few costs + as I said above on this thread, we incurred costs for Barrow, Vale etc that we've simply absorbed (much cheaper than a 'pro' set up, but still costs) so the profit we make has to be set against them as well.
After all this, imagine if it's a mobile phone with Chissy warbling over it lol.
