New Premier League TV rights

[DanH84]

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/premier-league-announces-audio-visual-rights.html

This is a massive uplift and will be exceptionally helpful in allowing clubs to meet ffp.

It's near enough a 70% rise in domestic rights and when the overseas rights are auctioned again there should be a further increase there.

 

[DanH84]

ESPN lost everything.

130ish Games to Sky.
38 games to BT who have also agreed they will show the games multi platform (so expect a BT Sports channel soon).

BT have also apparently got a high number of the 'A' games.

I hope they do similar to espn with virgin media and it's included with the package.

 

[DanH84]

So have sky basically got as many games as they are allowed to win? I.E same as last season ?

I think it's similar tbh. The difference is in how much each club will receive.

I think it means from 2013/2014 the club that finishes bottom will get paid more than Man City got this year.

 

[DanH84]

Quote:
BT said it would launch a new football-focused channel to carry the games.

"It will offer new interactive features when supplied over BT's fibre network and we will look to distribute it on other platforms," the telecoms firm said.

BT said full details and pricing would be published in due course

"We welcome BT as a new Premier League broadcast partner," said Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.

"They are a substantial British company that is at the leading edge of technology and infrastructure development."

He said BT would "deliver new ways in which fans will be able to follow the competition".

He added: "The continuing support of BSkyB for Premier League football is significant beyond the revenues delivered; the longevity and quality of their commitment has done much for the English game as a whole."

Under the new agreement, BT secured two of the seven packages on offer, showing 28 Saturday lunchtime games, including the opening game of the season, and 10 matches taking place on bank holidays or midweek evenings
So BT will show no Sunday games, but will launch a new channel and probably offer all the games over the internet.

That's quoted but I'm on my phone.

 

[DanH84]

Great, another substandard broadcast offering that will be cobbled together at some point in August and leave the fans worse off by having to fork out for yet another channel. At least ESPN had some other interesting content.

just so you know this won't come into play for another year yet, it's 2013 onwards so ESPN is still in place next season.

 

[DanH84]

Can they do that? They've states they'll make the channel available through other platforms (virgin and sky) even if it might cost extra but I thought online rights are sold separately? If not I imagine they will. I'd pay for it if it's not included in the vm package.