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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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
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There is a decrease in the average although it’s complex because the “additional” games are necessarily weaker than those “selected” in the old packages. Plus more games will clash in the simulcast 2pm Sunday slot after European midweeks so there’s an argument these pull the average down further. It’d be interesting to see values of the packages that could be deemed most like for like in the auctions.
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Originally Posted by Dave42
that is is there best selling point for sky sports OB man if they lost that they would lose a lot of customers and they know it too
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Some hold the view it’s their entire business model and they would have plenty in reserve if there was a genuine threat out there.