My local news has just said that the Premier League is telling clubs that it will have 8 billion to divide up in 2016-2017. I can't find that figure anywhere though.
One thing I am not sure on, do SKY & BT have the right to sell viewing rights overseas, or does the Premier league sell those separately? I guess if the latter then that could account for the larger figure, as I seem to remember the viewing right in UK were in the region of £5 Billion.
If we go up and get our slab of it, I'm going to set up a high end kitchen showroom just west of hull. Not just your 30-40k kitchens, I'm talking 500k, made of some rare endangered stone with brightly coloured edging, maybe lime green, pink or even a gaudy shade of Amber. We just need to sign Stephen Ireland on ridiculous money and I'll be rich.
Well Sky aren't making a loss. Their whole business is based on never losing the major share of PL live games. Without that they'd lose millions of subscribers. I think they'd be finished.
Isn't it Sky camera feed that foreign countries use, they just use their own commentators? Also Sky have been used with Sky commentary abroad too, I don't think they'd be too badly off!
Sky don't set up most the camera feeds at the 3pm games, no. The three/four games Sky show live will be their own camera set up but games broadcast abroad tend to be set up on the opposite side of the pitch to Sky (not always). For the Saturday 3pm games, at least two are normally BBC camera feeds believe it or not. Silly considering they don't show the games live and are supposed to be cost cutting. Sky do have an input over which commentators are used on those games at 3pm as it tends to be voices often heard on other football coverage of Sky - and it's these commentators which are heard in other countries around the world.
Most stadiums only have facilities to film from one side of the ground and there's never been two broadcasters doing the same game at the KC, so I don't think this is true.
Ive been to the KC to both footy n Rugby when on the telly. Quiet often the broadcasters vans appear to be some sort of outside broadcast companies and not Sky or BT on the vehicles
Sky have their fingers in many pies, including overseas TV companies, they won't go hungry quickly if they didn't have the main rights to the football. Not likely to happen anytime soon anyway!
BT have shown they've got deep pockets. There are others who could get involved. The reason the new TV deal has gone up again by a huge amount is not because the football has got any better but rather because Sky are very scared of losing the bulk of the PL games.
It tends to be at the bigger stadiums (Wembley etc.) and those countries showing a game in another language show it from the opposite side. Like you say, it's not true for every stadium.
Over 3 seasons from 2016/17. It has been reported at yesterdays PL owners meeting in London that the figures were revealed to be £8.1billion. (£8.1b dvd 3yrs x 20) So that equates to approx. £130m per club per season It was also reported that a large part of the meeting was spent on fans and away fans especially. Don't hold your breath though for cheaper tickets in the PL.
