Premier League Sky and BT Sport retain grip on Premier League rights but TV frenzy cools • Five of seven packages available have been announced• Sky to broadcast 128 matches starting from 2019-20 season Sky will host 128 matches starting from the 2019-20 season up to and including 2021-22. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty ImagesThe payTV broadcasters Sky and BT Sport have retained their hold on live televised Premier League football, paying £4.464bn to the clubs for the rights to the five main packages of matches from 2019-22. BT Sport said in a statement that it remains interested in those further rights, with the internet platform Amazon also said to be interested in securing some Premier League matches. Sky, which has based its original revival from financial difficulties in 1992, and escalating commercial fortunes since, on securing exclusive rights to live Premier League football, is to show the matches on its dedicated Premier League channel. The deals maintain the Premier League as by far the world’s richest football league, with the overseas rights sales still to be concluded.

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2018 18:48 UTC