Friday night FOOTBALL!!!!! (2016/17-2018/19 TV rights)

Azza · 12 Dec 2014 at 16:08

Coming to a TV screen near you.

Seasons between start of 2016 to 2019 - 168 live games (up from 154), possibly 10 Friday night matches.

Still no Saturday 3PM kick offs will be shown in the UK.

Free to air highlights is up for bidding as well... because we all want to see The Premiership on ITV again.

Azza · 12 Dec 2014 at 20:19

There's still going to be Monday matches.

Azza · 15 Dec 2014 at 11:44

No more BBC Football League Show... Channel 5 are going to be given rights to show highlights starting from next season. The program will be aired at 9PM on a Saturday evening. Which is a great time to be honest. Better than after MOTD on BBC.

Azza · 16 Dec 2014 at 07:15

Henry has retired from football and jumped straight onto the TV bandwagon - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...Sky-as-football-pundit-in-deal-worth-25m.html

That's a lot of money! :eek:

This sort of cash being paid for him, maybe they will try to force BT from having more live games than they should have after the CL bid.

Azza · 7 Feb 2015 at 08:24

Apparently the race is very close and there could be a second round of bidding starting next week because the bids are so close for all packages on offer...

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/06/premier-league-tv-rights-bidding-sky-bt

Make sure you're in the PL next season and you'll get a lot of £££

Azza · 10 Feb 2015 at 10:38

Dan Roan reporting that the new TV deal will hit £4.4bn.

That's a lot. Current deal come to £3bn.

Azza · 10 Feb 2015 at 17:35

Crazy money!