• Five of seven packages available have been announced
Sky to broadcast 128 matches starting from 2019-20 seasonThe payTV broadcasters Sky and BT Sport have retained their hold on live televised Premier League football,paying £4.464bn to the clubs for the rights to the five main packages of matches from 2019-22. Two minor packages of rights remain to be sold, a unusual experiment by the Premier League to allow the entire fixture list of 10 matches to be broadcast simultaneously, and four times a season. BT Sport said in a statement that it remains interested in those further rights,with the internet platform Amazon also said to be interested in securing some Premier League matches.
Sky committed to paying £3.579bn over the three years of the next deal, confirming that this is a significant reduction on the £4.1bn the broadcaster is paying for its prime packages in the current 2016-19 seasons. It will, and though,have the rights to 128 matches, two more than under the current deal, and has bought every weekend “first pick” of matches and the most coveted kick-off times. Its packages will exhibit matches at 5.30pm on Saturdays on 32 match days; Sundays at 2pm and 4.30pm and eight matches on Saturday nights at 7.45pm,the first time the Premier League has played matches at that time. Sky’s fourth package comprises Monday night and Friday night matches.
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Source: guardian.co.uk