TV rights update

[oldcolner]

Sky and BT Sport have agreed to pay £4.464bn to broadcast Premier League football games for three seasons from 2019-20.
Five of seven live packages have been awarded, with bidding for the remaining two ongoing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43052024

[1959_60]

Obscene of course.

But have you seen how much the NFL gets in America? Blinking heck.

[alfinyalcabo]

Let's hope we are still up there to receive the money..

[sinkov]

Seems like the overall amount the PL will get is reducing, at last a tiny glimmer of sanity in football's madhouse.

[oldcolner]

Seems like the overall amount the PL will get is reducing, at last a tiny glimmer of sanity in football's madhouse.

It’s probably not going to be much different from 5.1bn with 160 games fetching £4.46bn (£278.75m each) and two packs of 20 midweek games to go. There seems to be other companies involved in these two bids so assuming they are less desirable but have more competition go for £200m each that’s £0.8bn more. If they fetch less than £160m each then we will get less than last time, but it’s still a lot more than the £3b in the previous round.

[oldcolner]

It’s probably not going to be much different from 5.1bn with 160 games fetching £4.46bn (£278.75m each) and two packs of 20 midweek games to go. There seems to be other companies involved in these two bids so assuming they are less desirable but have more competition go for £200m each that’s £0.8bn more. If they fetch less than £160m each then we will get less than last time, but it’s still a lot more than the £3b in the previous round.

My maths is out it’s three years games so divide by three and divide by 10 to correct my maths so it’s £9.3m per game and we need to get £5.3m to break even
Of course there is also the overseas rights still to come.
In the 2015 auction, the Premier League sold the international rights to live football games for about£3.3bn over three years, on top of the £5.1bn it raised from selling the UK rights.