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Originally Posted by Raider999
Assuming you are talking about the 2 minor packages of PL rights that no-one originally wanted (well not at the price PL wanted for them) - this amounts to all of the games in 2 rounds of midweek premier league matches.
It remains to be seen how they recover the amount they paid for them (whatever it was - never been disclosed so I suspect it was way below what sky/BT pay per game) and how much it will cost to stream a game.
Hardly a major breakthrough!
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It's just a toe in the water before the big plunge, Raider.
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Originally Posted by Horizon
... that idea would be the ultimate cutting out the middleman. Very interesting.
Pay tv like Sky was always driven primarily by football, if the pay tv platforms lose this to the streamers or the PL directly, its game over for the likes of Sky and BT.
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Agreed, but for some strange reason, there are some people who would like Sky, who have single-handedly raised the cost of Premiership football to this astronomical level, to retain the exclusive rights to the majority of rights to screen these football matches.
I think that ultimately the new players will forge a course that will see a reduction in these obscene level of charges to football supporters.