article_snippet.sent: Scottish football's relationship with television has become a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
article_snippet.sent: Sky and BT Sports pay £16million a year for live coverage of Scottish football.
article_snippet.sent: St Mirren facing Ross County on a wet March night in Paisley will never be a rival to the Manchester derby but broadcasters don't show Scottish football out of charity.
article_snippet.sent: It's not just the Scottish Cup.
article_snippet.sent: When you're looking at a Scottish football landscape, where money is tight and a broadcaster is the biggest provider of income, that can't be ignored.
article_snippet.sent: Scottish viewers make up around nine per cent of Sky and BT Sport' s subscribers.
article_snippet.sent: Yet it now costs Scottish viewers more to cover two games between West Brom and Stoke than it does to fund an entire season of Scottish football.
article_snippet.sent: The spectacle in SPFL is often poor and does nothing to persuade Sky that Scottish football is worth paying out more cash.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scottish football coverage is at the mercy of Sky and BT's schedules .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Yet, Scottish football is never afforded the same precedence as England's .
  