PL control the rights John. SKY and BT = £5billion and all the overseas rights have come in at £3.1billion. No wonder Richard Scudamore is hailed as the new Messiah by PL owners.
As far as I'm aware, internationals are the only games where camera's are used both sides, as the advertising boards they face are sold separately for each market.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...chester-United-continue-oppose-price-cap.html The seven clubs who opposed it are named and the rest are planning on setting it at £30 regardless of what those seven clubs think. (They're also increasing the number of FA Cup finalist tickets for the two teams contesting this match this year (around another three thousand tickets per team)).
Even somewhere like the US, huge amounts of people & lots of coverage but only a small percentage will be interested, hence the smaller payments. I assume anyway! I'm sure there'll be corrections from those that know more!
At the most it's five (very rarely six). Sky have up to four games a weekend and BT usually have one (sometimes show two depending on postponements).
The UK pay more for the live games simply because Sky and BT bid more. They're valuable TV rights in this country. The only reason the Saturday 3pms in this country aren't shown live is because of some stupid blackout law - apparently it would affect attendances at games if all games were live in this country, whereas showing the game live in Australia won't mean there'll be a decrease in the attendance of Bournemouth Vs Stoke for example. Each time the TV rights go up for tender in this country, Scudamore tries (often succeeds) putting more games in the rights packages to get more games live on TV in this country (it increases again next season). This, in part, also means Sky/BT pay more. They have to pay more in fear of losing the rights to another bidding TV company. In the current TV deal, BT actually out-bid Sky on each rights package (six in total) but one company isn't allowed to show all the live games in this country so the PL sent it to a second round of bidding where Sky bid much, much more for five of the six packages.
How much do you have to pay to get BT sport and SKY sport, as I understand you would need both to see all the premier league games?
I guess coming from a country where our sporting codes are all televised to the max, it's interesting seeing a country where there are television cameras watching every game in the Football League, but you can't watch them live.
Premier league games we're talking about, yeah? Saturday 12:45 - BT Saturday 17:30 - Sky Sunday 13:30 - Sky Sunday 16:00 - Sky Monday 20:00 - Sky Those are the normal contracted TV slots. (Sometimes a Sunday includes a 12:00 game but usually at the expense of one of the other TV slots). Unless you're including the mid-week fixtures - in which case you get a Tuesday 19:45 and Wednesday 20:00 too (I was only talking about the weekend). That said, the mid-week games are a new round of games and wouldn't be added to the weekend set to make 6 or 7.
Of course I'm including midweek fixtures, we're talking about how many Premier League games are televised each week.
