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Originally Posted by Bogof

There's always someone going to "blow Sky out the water" no one ever does. Last time it was apparently going to be al jazzera. But the came out publicly an said competing with Sky is pointless for them. As if they did win any football rights they would have to pay far too much for it.

Business is business and no company will throw £3billion/£4billion or almost $7.5billion just to get 120 EPL games a year for 3 years. Sky make it up as you need to have the basic channels to get Skysports an they are also very successful at up selling broadband and phoneline. So a skysports customer becomes a full tv package/bb/phoneline customer aswell. BT only paid £700million over 3 years and it already gave them millions more subscribers an they have the added bonus broadband sign ups.

EPL TV rights don't sell massively outside of the UK.

You were saying.

The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.[4] In the 2010–11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35,363, the second highest of any professional football league behind the German Bundesliga,[5] and stadium occupancy was 92.2% capacity.[6] The Premier League ranked second in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League