Epl tv rights sky vs BT

[Brite spark]

towser44 said:

They own Eurosport don't they? Probably mean cost to watch Eurosport will rocket and that's annoying as a cycling fan :-(

Just read that on the daily mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-...
Qatari tv channel may also have bid.
Not sure how discovery/Eurosport would get a financial return on investment for this either or how they would get it shown sufficiently to uk viewers, and of course which of the 7 packages they would get, which could well be ones with few top/desirable pick games.

[Russ35]

£5.136bn just for the UK rights. Last time foreign rights was £2bn+ I assume that will also increase.

Sky get 5 packages and BT 2

Edited by Russ35 on Tuesday 10th February 17:12

[Driver101]

Silly money.

If Sky didn't come up with such huge amounts of money, who else would?

[m3sye]

There was a few companies in the running - some US ones too

5.1BL - each prem club got 80m a year on old one, imagine how much on this new one....

Best get a bank loan in ready to pay for the no doubt increase in ticket prices that go along side this windfall that each premier league club is getting.

[Russ35]

Sky paying £4.176bn of the £5.136bn and BT the rest

So Sky have 126 matches per year and BT 42

So Sky are paying £11m per game and BT £7.6m

[bad company]

Scudamore would not say who else was bidding for the matches.

[Challo]

That's a crazy amount of money. The gap between the premiership and championship just got even wider.

[Brite spark]

Russ35 said:

Sky paying £4.176bn of the £5.136bn and BT the rest

So Sky have 126 matches per year and BT 42

So Sky are paying £11m per game and BT £7.6m

Next question is how much are sky going to have to put up prices?

[bad company]

Brite spark said:

Next question is how much are sky going to have to put up prices?

Too much more and they risk losing customers.

[Carl_Docklands]

£5100 odd million for the UK TV rights....

...

£50 odd million to be invested in grass roots football....


...slow clap to the FA and the premier league....

[soad]

Challo said:

That's a crazy amount of money. The gap between the premiership and championship just got even wider.

Just the way it is.

[Driver101]

soad said:

Challo said:

That's a crazy amount of money. The gap between the premiership and championship just got even wider.

Just the way it is.

They'll have to increase the parachute payments to those who are relegated so they can survive.

It will end up with the very top teams pulling even further away from everyone else, teams in the middle happy being safe, then all the bottom teams too scared to spend premier league money in fear of going down.

[SaintsPaul]

It was said that Sky/BT will be paying £10 million per game
With that amount of money floating around it is time for the clubs to reduce ticket prices.
Lets get the game back. Too many people now not being able to follow their team home and away.

[Driver101]

SaintsPaul said:

It was said that Sky/BT will be paying £10 million per game
With that amount of money floating around it is time for the clubs to reduce ticket prices.
Lets get the game back. Too many people now not being able to follow their team home and away.

Many of the teams still have huge debts. They still need every penny.

[SaintsPaul]

Driver101 said:

SaintsPaul said:

It was said that Sky/BT will be paying £10 million per game
With that amount of money floating around it is time for the clubs to reduce ticket prices.
Lets get the game back. Too many people now not being able to follow their team home and away.

Many of the teams still have huge debts. They still need every penny.

Tongue in cheek I hope
Too many clubs spending beyond their means and using the fans hard earned to cover the costs.
Very poor business sense !

[Gandahar]

It would be good if all this money reduced ticket prices, gave the lower earning staff members of the clubs a decent wage and have more trickle down to other parts of football.

Instead I get the feeling that soon there will a £500k per week footballer and even richer agents and other vultures.

[Driver101]

SaintsPaul said:

Tongue in cheek I hope
Too many clubs spending beyond their means and using the fans hard earned to cover the costs.
Very poor business sense !

I'm afraid prices won't come down. The BBC did a survey last year for the cost of football. It was put to chairmen that the price of the tickets was too high. The general response was my stadium is full every week. Supply is meeting demand.

Most are overspending beyond their means, but that isn't going to change. More money in the Premier league will mean even more fear of falling out of it.

The top clubs will get bigger and all the costs spread through the league.

The wages and costs through the premier league are out of control. Nothings seems to be changing that.

Edited by Driver101 on Tuesday 10th February 20:43

Edited by Driver101 on Tuesday 10th February 20:44

[Cheib]

Well that tells you one thing....Sky couldn't afford to lose the PL rights. I thinK Sky made £500mil last year....this contract alone has pretty much wiped out annual profits!

[Alfahorn]

Challo said:

That's a crazy amount of money. The gap between the premiership and championship just got even wider.

I don't have sympathy for championship clubs, they play in the 4th richest league in the world. As well as Arsenal I follow my local non league club. We're not sure where we're going to find money upgrade/maintain our floodlights and our playing staff combined only get £500 a week. It's sickening that clubs at grassroots level are scratching around to make enough money to keep going whilst the premiership continues to generate obscene amounts of money.

[soad]

SaintsPaul said:

It was said that Sky/BT will be paying £10 million per game
With that amount of money floating around it is time for the clubs to reduce ticket prices.
Lets get the game back. Too many people now not being able to follow their team home and away.

Reduce ticket prices? I just can't see it.

I suspect, top clubs could get away with charging even more...