Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 12-08-2021, 18:43   #10632
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
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.
I wasn't going back that far - in the last few years things are moving platforms far more often.

I suspect this is because those leagues are trying to get more money from UK rights in an effort to catch up with the Premier League.
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