Last year, the league agreed a three-year contract in China for about $700 million, more than 10 times its previous agreement there. (NBC owns the United States rights to the Premier League until 2022 as part of a six-year, $1 billion agreement that was a fourfold increase from its previous deal.) PhotoWhen the Premier League launched in 1992, the ratio between top club and bottom was 2 to 1, and overseas income was negligible. All have interests in professional teams in the United States, where the concept of equal revenue sharing is enshrined in most sports leagues. “That was the consequence of this kind of league structure and revenue allocation model,” said Simon Chadwick, the Professor of Sports Enterprise at the Salford Business School.

Source: New York Times October 03, 2017 19:07 UTC