What Sky Sports and BT Sport's TV Premier League rights deal really means for armchair football fans - News Summed Up

What Sky Sports and BT Sport's TV Premier League rights deal really means for armchair football fans


Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailSky have paid £3.579billion for their packages across the three seasons, BT have splashed £885million for theirs. With 160 of the 200 available live games a season bagged by BT and Sky, how is the picture looking for the Premier League's army of armchair supporters? The cornerstone of the Sky Sports package remains Sunday afternoons - 32 games at 2pm and 32 more at 4.30pm, with 19 of the weekends' best games at that later slot. Well, the clubs and league really hoped Amazon would join the fray this time and perhaps it will try one of these as an experiment/shot across the bows of BT and Sky. That deal - or truce, really - was the clearest indication that the 'Wild West' days of the Premier League's domestic rights deals appear to be over, which is great news for shareholders in BT and Sky, if not football agents.


Source: Sky sports February 13, 2018 22:37 UTC



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