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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by jfman
You are, as ever, selectively quoting.
They obviously need Government permission to award the rights without putting them out to tender due to competition concerns.
That is not to say that they could not have run an auction if they sincerely believed that was the best way to maximise revenue.
Clearly they did not believe this would have extracted greatest value for their shareholders.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Why do you keep arguing about nothing? It was the result of the pandemic. End of.
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It appears to have been both...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57098432
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The current £4.7bn deal, agreed in 2018, represented a 10% drop in value.
The Government has approved the deal "in principle" with an "exclusion order" under the competition act, which allows the league to renew without its normal tender process.
"In light of the damaging impact of the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the English football pyramid, the Premier League was able to demonstrate to Government exceptional and compelling reasons for the Exclusion Order," the league said.
As part of the new deal, BT Sport say that to help with the fixture congestion, they will change their Saturday lunchtime game to an evening slot when teams involved have played in Europe on the previous Wednesday.
Clubs had been concerned that there could be another fall in value if the usual open-market auction started as planned next month.
The value of rights for domestic leagues in Europe also appears to have peaked.
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