English Premier League Agrees to Record TV Deal
The Premier League has agreed to a record domestic TV deal with Sky and TNT worth £6.7 billion ($8.46b) according to BBC Sports.
The new deal will go into place for the beginning of the 2025-26 EPL season. It will last for four years.
The biggest takeaway from this new deal is that more and more money will be coming into the Premier League which is already the most expensive football league in the world. This deal is a vast increase from the current £5b ($6.32b) deal that is ongoing until the end of the 2024-25 EPL season.
“[This new deal will] provide financial certainty for clubs throughout professional football until at least 2029,” the Premier League said regarding the new agreement.
This deal will also increase the number of televised matches for UK watchers. The current deal sees 200 matches covered, but the new deal will see up to 270 Premier League matches televised. Sky Sports will be showing the majority of these 270 matches while TNT has the rights to show roughly 50 matches for EPL future seasons.
While these two are continuing to show matches Amazon Prime will no longer be showing matches, which they’ve been doing since 2019.
Along with the increase in televised matches, the long-running show “Match of the Day” will continue to run highlights.
“For almost 60 years it has been the UK’s most discussed football program, delivering a complete digest of the weekend’s action and this enhanced deal with more digital content means we can tell the story of the Premier League every day across BBC Sport platforms,” Barbara Slater, Director at BBC Sports, said.
This deal will have no impact on Premier League fans in the U.S. as NBC had already agreed to a six-year deal back in 2021.
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