Premier League rights sold to BT and BSkyB for £3bn

[raelmadrid]

Premier League rights sold to BT and BSkyB for £3bn

The new rights deal covers the 2013-14 to 2015-16 seasons
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BT has secured the rights to broadcast 38 Premier League games for each of the seasons from 2013-14 to 2015-16.
BSkyB will continue to show the majority of matches, having secured the rights to 116 games per season, the Premier League said.
The total of 154 live matches is 16 more than currently broadcast and more than 40% of all top-level matches.
The sales raised £3.018bn, an increase of £1.25bn on the current package which shares rights between BSkyB and ESPN.
'New ways' "We welcome BT as a new Premier League broadcast partner," said Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.
"They are a substantial British company that is at the leading edge of technology and infrastructure development."
He said BT would "deliver new ways in which fans will be able to follow the competition".
He added: "The continuing support of BSkyB for Premier League football is significant beyond the revenues delivered; the longevity and quality of their commitment has done much for the English game as a whole."
Under the new agreement, BT secured two of the seven packages on offer, showing 28 Saturday lunchtime games and 10 matches taking place on bank holidays or midweek evenings.

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so have BT got the games that ESPN would usually have and ESPN have nothing?

[Clubber Lang]

So BT will now have a channel on Sky?

[raelmadrid]

i hope so

[bobo06]

Ive got euro sat so not to bad for me

[Geko]

If you can only get the channels on BT Vision I will laugh.

What happens to ESPN now? Won't be able to charge £10 a month.

[EvilBoB]

If you can only get the channels on BT Vision I will laugh.

What happens to ESPN now? Won't be able to charge £10 a month.

BSkyB will continue to show the majority of matches, having secured the rights to 116 games per season, the Premier League said.

^^ Think that answers your comment.

[BigBrand]

Should make flash stream sports a shit load easier to get in HD. Class. ESPN can suck my fat one anyway.

[Geko]

^^ Think that answers your comment.

It doesn't though does it. Or am I missing something?

To me that says Sky will show their 3 packages, the majority of matches. It doesn't say all matches.

[BBK]

I think BT have already confirmed they will be broadcasting on Sky and Virgin, but if they don't, they're going to lose a lot of money IMO. I won't be signing up, vipbox.tv will do just fine thank you.