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

Absolutely crazy money. But Sky built it's empire around the football and they'll do what it takes to keep it. Expect even more advertising to cover the cost.
 
BaZ87 said:
To put this deal into perspective, it's almost worth the same as the overall TV rights (including overseas, highlights etc) from the last auction and everybody thought those figures were astronomical.

I mentioned the possibility of £8bn as the total figure once the overseas rights are sold but at second thoughts, that's probably too conservative. Overseas rights grew by around 50% last time around and there's more scope for growth there than the UK rights. Even a 50% increase would see overall rights go past £8.5bn.
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All reports I can find where indicating the last foreign deal was worth £2bn (~£1.3bn between '10-'13 and £2bn for '13-16)

A 50% increase would make the new foreign rights deal worth £3bn - and the whole deal for all the rights worth £8.1bn (according to the BBC's headline tonight reading £5.1bn for national rights)- or a ~70% increase to reach the £8.5bn you mentioned
 
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Rooney's extortionate salary will go up
Sky's extortionate prices will go up
Wigan, Salford and Newcastle ticket prices will go down
Kidderminster, Arsenal and Spurs ticket prices will go up despite not winning anything between them for the next 10 seasons
More pubs/venues will be priced out of showing Premiere League matches

Sounds about right? Why can't we legally have services like in other countries? For £10 a month these days you can get all matches in HD.
 
McBain said:
Looking forward to being bent over by Sky in the near future.
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I don't subscribe to sports or movies.

If Sky put their entertainment package up from the £30 pm it already costs, I will be leaving them.

The amount paid to the prem is obscene now.

It was only a couple years ago I was paying £22 for the entertainment channels, so it's already gone up massively since 2010 or so. Line in the sand time :p
 
FoxEye said:
I don't subscribe to sports or movies.

If Sky put their entertainment package up from the £30 pm it already costs, I will be leaving them.

The amount paid to the prem is obscene now.

It was only a couple years ago I was paying £22 for the entertainment channels, so it's already gone up massively since 2010 or so. Line in the sand time :p
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I'm paying £22 now locked at that price for 5 years.
 
FrankJH said:
All reports I can find where indicating the last foreign deal was worth £2bn (~£1.3bn between '10-'13 and £2bn for '13-16)

A 50% increase would make the new foreign rights deal worth £3bn - and the whole deal for all the rights worth £8.1bn (according to the BBC's headline tonight reading £5.1bn for national rights)- or a ~70% increase to reach the £8.5bn you mentioned
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No, you're wrong. £8.1bn (based on a 50% increase in the overseas live rights) would be the total of just the live TV rights, domestic and overseas.

The overall figure, as I mentioned in the post that you quoted, will include the sale of TV highlights (MOTD), online highlights and other smaller rights. The value of these other packages in the 2013-2016 deal was approximately £500m. The £8.5bn figure I stated was based on that £500m being about the same - it's actually very likely to increase (MOTD are paying just over 10% more than last time) but probably not by as much as the live rights have.
 
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thecremeegg said:
Use a F&F code and Sky is well priced - I have the full Sky package for £30 a month which I think is fine
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You have everything for £30 a month?

That's what I'm paying just for the entertainment channels. No sports, no movies, no... etc.

How did you get that deal? I've been with them for about 5 years now...
 
BBC said:
Leading politicians have called for more money from the sale of domestic TV rights to be put into grassroots football and reducing ticket prices.
But Scudamore said: "We're not set up for charitable purposes. We are set up to be the best football competition."
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But Scudamore said: "We're not set up for charitable purposes. We are set up to be the richest football competition."

Good for them, sad for you English that have to pay small fortunes to watch TV football.

It's 16€ PM in Belgium for all Belgian leagues and nearly all Prem League matches.
 
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