Sky pays 3.6 billion pounds to win bulk of new Premier League rights

ByReuters

Published 13/02/2018 at 19:00 GMT

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Sky has agreed to pay 3.58 billion pounds for a three-year deal to show 128 English Premier League matches a season from 2019/20, less than it paid for its current broadcast deal.

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Rival BT said it had agreed to pay 885 million pounds($1.23 billion) to show 32 games a season for three years, after five of seven packages were auctioned on Tuesday.

In total, the companies will pay 4.46 billion pounds to secure the rights for 160 games a season for three years.

The auction of two further packages of 20 games each a season had not finished, with interest from multiple bidders, the Premier League said on Tuesday

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The amount raised so far, however, is below the 5.14 billion pounds raised in 2015 for three-year packages to show 168 games a season.

($1 = 0.7208 pounds) (Reporting by Paul Sandle and Alistair Smout. Editing by Jane Merriman)

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