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Originally Posted by vincerooney
do we know whats going to happen with premier league games? no one can attend obviously....surely the uk govt dont want people turning up at grounds to listen to games? Surely all games should go live on tv until people can return? Could be dangerous otherwise!
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Currently the plans are to revert to the contracted amount of games, albeit this rises to 220? Games this season.
The agreement to show all games, some free to air, was purely to enable the 2019/20 season to be completed.
With Sky & BT paying vast sums for the rights to show selected games I do not think they would allow the same to happen for the new season.
Do not forget Sky show 30 mins highlights of all weekend games not televised live - presumably they pay for the right to do this.
They have options of course -
1) they could show the extra games free to air for a reduction in their contracted payments
2) they could agree to the extra games being streamed, again presumably for a reduction
To name a couple