Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 10-01-2014, 14:33   #4172
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by Mad Max View Post
The reason Sky & BT, imo, pay so much for the rights to football, whether it's the EPL or CL, is down to the fact that players are paid obscene amounts of money, if the clubs didn't get the income from the TV companies via the football associations, then they would only be able to offer players a reasonable salary to play football, it's ridiculous that some of them are on £150k per week plus! Reducing the amount paid to players would have the effect of the TV companies having to pay a reasonable amount to show these games live, this would have the knock on effect of reducing bills to people who want to pay to watch live football.
I agree that the salaries are ridiculous but feel you have cause and effect the wrong way round. Murdoch called sports rights the battering ram to open people's doors to signing up for pay TV services. Sports rights; in particular the Premier League; are vital to a successful pay TV business which is why Sky and BT have paid so much. This money has flooded into the Premier League helping it buy some of the best players in the world and pay them handsomely and some!
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