Huge New Cash Windfall For The Prem

[White Noise]

£1bn record Prem TV deal

By ROB BEASLEY

Published: Today


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PREMIER LEAGUE clubs are set to pocket a stunning £1billion thanks to a recession-busting TV deal.

Chief exec Richard Scudamore is ready to announce the bumper windfall shortly as he publishes the figures for the worldwide rights to screen top Premier League matches.

The current global deal is worth £645m but the next three-year agreement will dwarf that.

Negotiations are not complete, with the huge markets of China and Russia still to be settled.

But Scudamore is confident he will now deliver the landmark £1bn figure.

And that will be shared between the 20 clubs, meaning £50m each.

Prem football is the world's richest. Domestic rights, taken up by Sky, ESPN and the BBC, are worth £1.8bn - making a grand total of £2.8bn.


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[White Noise]

This was always the thing that MAF berates Scudamore for - not getting more money from the Foreign TV rights.

When you think how many more people watch the games outside the UK than within it you have to think that the overseas rights will eventually far outstrip the domestic ones.

To save yers the mental arithmetic - I make that £17,750,000 extra per club - if it comes in at exactly £1 billion. As its a 3 year contract that would be almost £5.92 million per club per year on top of what they currently get.

[The Doctor]

Any idea when this 3-yr deal commences?  I imagine it be from the start of either the 2010/11 or 2011/12 season.

[White Noise]

The Premier League's income from the sale of overseas TV rights has already increased from £178m in 2001 to £625m for the current deal that runs until 2010.

Broadcaster NowTV paid around £100m for the rights to Hong Kong alone.

Premier League games are broadcast to over 600m homes in 202 countries worldwide, while an estimated 1bn people watched the Premier League game between Arsenal and Manchester United in November 2007.

[finnster01]

This is exactly why I have been harping on about why MAF was a very smart man to buy Fulham.

This is also why it is of utmost importance to stay up in the Prem.

The only sad bit, is that the true fans and bums in the seats will mean less and less