04-12-2023, 07:31 PM
The obvious question from here is how much more money is being payed to the Premier League, and by extension how much of any increase will be passed onto consumers?
I haven't seen many rumours of new entrants being aggressively interested (reports that Apple did not bid a few weeks ago for example), so I doubt Sky and TNT might not have been spooked to bid excessively more like when they did in BT Sport's second auction.
Sky claim they can now show 70% more games, but the value of this increase won't be particularly massive with the majority of these games clashing with each other. I do wonder how flexible Sky can be now: say yesterday could they have promoted Liverpool v. Fulham to the main channels ahead of West Ham v. Crystal Palace instead of it being a bonus game?
I presume the Irish Saturday 3pm will be announced closer to the time the rest of the international rights are confirmed rather than this week?
I haven't seen many rumours of new entrants being aggressively interested (reports that Apple did not bid a few weeks ago for example), so I doubt Sky and TNT might not have been spooked to bid excessively more like when they did in BT Sport's second auction.
Sky claim they can now show 70% more games, but the value of this increase won't be particularly massive with the majority of these games clashing with each other. I do wonder how flexible Sky can be now: say yesterday could they have promoted Liverpool v. Fulham to the main channels ahead of West Ham v. Crystal Palace instead of it being a bonus game?
I presume the Irish Saturday 3pm will be announced closer to the time the rest of the international rights are confirmed rather than this week?