radio four reckoned sky are paying an average of 11 mil a game and bt something like 7

and an overall cost increase of @ 2 billion over the last package !!!!

total madness

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/10/premier-league-tv-rights-sky-bt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31357409

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/20876/9708810/sky-sports-wins-live-premier-league-rights-to-end-of-2018-19-season

i'm wondering if its a coincidence that the deal was announced after the stock market closed

£5.14B for the next 3 seasons!

That means United will offer 250M for Bale, Ross Barkley will be bought for around 80M and Wenger will pay 3 quid for some French lad no ones heard off!

this is mental. insane money. game is <deleted>.

Maybe with the continued avalanche of money making TVisa ads on every page they can put in a bid next time. More and more difficult to find the bloody posts for all the ads !

£5.14B for the next 3 seasons!

That means United will offer 250M for Bale, Ross Barkley will be bought for around 80M and Wenger will pay 3 quid for some French lad no ones heard off!

Don't be so absurd Bob.

Wenger will wait until they're out of contract, sign them on a free and then they'll get injured while they're on holiday.

Maybe with the continued avalanche of money making TVisa ads on every page they can put in a bid next time. More and more difficult to find the bloody posts for all the ads !http://static.thaivisa.com/f

Use opera amd thai visa moble app

Dont seem to get any . and tbh doesnt seem an issue with firefox on the laptop.

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Summary of the deal from SkySports. Note the coverage on more days of the week. Looks like Friday night football is on the way

The key points of the new Premier League rights deal include:

* More live matches than ever before, with 126 fixtures a season versus 116 under the existing contract

* Live coverage on more days of the week, with matches on Friday evenings for the first time as well as Saturday afternoons, Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings

* The best match picks, including 26 first picks and 31 second picks, meaning that Sky Sports will offer more of the biggest matches

* Live coverage of every Premier League club at least four times a season

* Rights to offer live coverage across a range of platforms, including online and mobile

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9708810/sky-sports-wins-live-premier-league-rights-to-end-of-2018-19-season

Saturday afternoons? Thats a blow for smaller clubs

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Saturday afternoons? Thats a blow for smaller clubs

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How is that? There are already Saturday afternoon matches on Sky!......If the new schedule is correct, games have actually been brought forward 15 minutes from 12:45.

BT Sport

36 matches on Saturday including 28 at 5.30pm Six midweek evening matches

Sky Sports

28 Saturday at 12.30pm 28 Sunday 1.30pm-2.15pm 28 Monday (no less than 18) or Friday (no more than 10) Eight Bank Holiday and 6 Sunday

Sky crapping bricks that BT nicked Euro footy off them.

£5.14B for the next 3 seasons!

That means United will offer 250M for Bale, Ross Barkley will be bought for around 80M and Wenger will pay 3 quid for some French lad no ones heard off!

Don't be so absurd Bob.

Wenger will wait until they're out of contract, sign them on a free and then they'll get injured while they're on holiday.

And then develop a smoking habit during their injury lay off.

Presumably there is more to be added to the pot with the overseas rights still to be finalised.

This was reported as £2.23b for the previous deal (2013-16), up from £1.4b for the earlier 3 year period. With the increased interest in EPL from the US and the continuing Asian demand (will CTH bid again?) a figure of well over £3b is likely.

Hard to imagine what the level of transfer fees / player salaries will be after all that dosh is dished out. The agents must be placing orders for calculators with more digits as we speak.

And the European clubs will be adding a 0 to their players values as well.

i'm wondering if its a coincidence that the deal was announced after the stock market closed

according to the bbc news sky shares dropped 5 % b4 lunch

I have no idea why everyone is bitching about this

No one forced Sky or BT to bid in the same way no one forces people to subscribe to BT or Sky.

If people think it's too much money then just cancel your sub with Sky or BT.

If Sky lost the BPL I hate to think how big the drop would be in the subscription numbers

BT obviously using free football to stop people leaving to go to Sky for TV, phone and ADSL

I have no idea why everyone is bitching about this

No one forced Sky or BT to bid in the same way no one forces people to subscribe to BT or Sky.

If people think it's too much money then just cancel your sub with Sky or BT.

If Sky lost the BPL I hate to think how big the drop would be in the subscription numbers

BT obviously using free football to stop people leaving to go to Sky for TV, phone and ADSL

If you take Sky original content out of the question (and that isn't much), what they are trying to do is poach Sky customers.

Remember they have all European competition from next year for three years, that's a big loss to Sky.

That's why I suspect Sky went high, it would be catastrophic for them to lose the EPL.

They got the football to stop people moving to Sky for the TV, phone and ADSL

Sky was growing so fast in the ADSL side of things they were going to over take BT

So now they give away the channel for free.

BT have the Champs League and Europa League as you say which they just paid under £1B for 1 Champs League game will still be shown on ITV I am not sure if BT or ITV pick first

I am sure Sky did not want to loose the Champs League but they were only paying 1/3 of that for all the Champs League

I am sure the rights will go up in price again at the next auction as the live football is critical to both companies

With BT charing £15 a month for the champs league it will be interesting to see how many people sign up for that. They have said they will keep BPL football free for the moment

Presumably there is more to be added to the pot with the overseas rights still to be finalised.

More to the point for those of us living in LOS is who will win the rights here. Not those bloody CTH clowns, I would hope!

Presumably there is more to be added to the pot with the overseas rights still to be finalised.

More to the point for those of us living in LOS is who will win the rights here. Not those bloody CTH clowns, I would hope!

Maybe not, but it depends how much True wants to bid really.