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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...mazon-31182351
Seems like they were only interested in the bargain basement package as well - and failed.
I thought Sky was resigned not to pull out all the stops to keep their Premiership rights. Seems like they were feeling flush after all.
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We don't know yet and may never know if anyone apart from Sky and TNT put in a bid.
The small package of 20 matches was discontinued as it had only received a small bid in the last auction. It wasn't intended to be sold at the bargain basement price that Amazon ended snapping it up for!
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Originally Posted by jfman
A paltry 4% rise since the last auction that actually took place. In real terms (inflation adjusted) the value is decreasing, and by the end of this period that will have been the case for a decade - for more live games than ever before!
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By my calculations - might be mistaken - a significant decrease in cost per live game.
2023 auction: 1068 matches in total spread across 4 years
Total rights sale £6.7bn including BBC's unchanged £282m
So £6m per match, equivalent to £4.6m in 2016 given inflation
Previous auction: 600 matches spread across 3 years
Total rights sale £5.1bn including BBC's £282m
So £8.5m per match