Premier League Announces Record $8.45 Billion Domestic TV Deal
The Premier League introduced on Monday it had agreed a file 6.7 billion kilos ($8.45 billion) home tv rights deal for a four-year interval ranging from the 2025/26 season. The present deal is reported to be value round 5 billion kilos over a three-year cycle and covers 200 matches per season. The English high flight hailed the agreements shared between totally different broadcasters because the “largest sports activities media rights offers ever concluded within the UK”. Sky Sports activities and TNT Sports activities have retained their rights to point out reside matches, with Amazon, presently displaying 20 matches per season, not a part of the subsequent cycle. Sky will display screen a minimal of 215 reside matches per season whereas TNT will broadcast 52. BBC Sport will proceed to broadcast highlights by way of its Match of the Day programme. A Saturday afternoon blackout, designed to guard attendances within the decrease leagues, will stay however for the primary time all matches outdoors of these scheduled for 3:00 pm on Saturday will probably be screened reside. The Premier League boasted of a 4 p.c improve in reside rights worth in contrast with the earlier course of…