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Originally Posted by Raider999
With the U.K. Rights to top flight foreign football leagues forever moving from 1 broadcaster to another almost every time they are up for renewal it is evident that not many people are interested in watching foreign football.
I wonder if the rights change as often in each leagues home country?
It seems to be a race to the bottom.
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La Liga was on Sky for almost 20 years. The Bundesliga on BT for 8.
If you remove Eleven Sports getting too big for their boots and collapsing as there was no space for a purely sports streaming service without a linear presence you’ll find the rights are generally quite stable.
The popularity (or otherwise) is equally irrelevant to the 3pm blackout being a protectionist racket.
Each leagues home country gets more interesting - sometimes due to the regulations imposed to increase competition. However in Germany Sky (and Premiere before it) have had the primary coverage of the Bundesliga since the analogue satellite days.