The New TV Deal

I'm sure you've all heard the excellent news today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6273617.stm

The winner of football's Premiership will net £50m from next season after the league agreed a new £625m deal for overseas television rights.

The extra income from the deal means even the team finishing bottom will claim about £26m. Current title holders Chelsea won £30m last season.

The money adds to income from domestic broadcast and internet contracts.

"This deal really does take us on to another level," said Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.

Overseas appeal

The new contract covers coverage of the 2007/8, 2008/9 and 2009/10 seasons in 208 countries worldwide.

The £625m raised is double that from existing overseas television deals and takes the Premiership's earnings from media rights over the three seasons to more than £2.7bn.

Mr Scudamore said the largest increase in payments for rights had been in the Middle East and in Asia, with the battle to show live games particularly fierce in Hong Kong.

"We have a cosmopolitan approach to players and a cosmopolitan approach to ownership and that is paying off," he said.

"No territories have gone down but in some cases the rights have ended up being sold for three or four times the current amount."
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GREAT news for the premiership, BAD news for everyone else. The premiership is really going to become the top dog, how will the other european leagues be able to compete with this kind of money?

The first £200k/w player (in Europe) will be in the EPL.

Fuck me!

£26m for the bottom placed club!

Means clubs near the bottom will now risk far more to stay in the EPL.

There will be no competition in terms of money with the EPL once this comes in

£50m? Doesn't that still pale in comparison to YooWay and Real?

Madrid and barca both got a 1 billion t.v deal each over so many years. So top clubs will still keep in touch, but the rest probably not.

Obispo wrote:£50m? Doesn't that still pale in comparison to YooWay and Real?

Not in terms of prize money it doesn't.

If you win the CL you get in total about £45m so now winning the EPL is the most financially rewarding competition in the world and thats not even counting attendance fees into the equation (which that CL figure does)

L r d wrote:Madrid and barca both got a 1 billion t.v deal each over so many years. So top clubs will still keep in touch, but the rest probably not.

How many years?

Tweedle wrote:

Obispo wrote:£50m? Doesn't that still pale in comparison to YooWay and Real?

Not in terms of prize money it doesn't.

If you win the CL you get in total about £45m so now winning the EPL is the most financially rewarding competition in the world and thats not even counting attendance fees into the equation (which that CL figure does)

I'm fairly sure we only got £28m for winning the Champions League. Could be wrong...

Obispo wrote:

Tweedle wrote:

Obispo wrote:£50m? Doesn't that still pale in comparison to YooWay and Real?

Not in terms of prize money it doesn't.

If you win the CL you get in total about £45m so now winning the EPL is the most financially rewarding competition in the world and thats not even counting attendance fees into the equation (which that CL figure does)

I'm fairly sure we only got £28m for winning the Champions League. Could be wrong...

Is that prize money, TV revenue and attendances all rolled into one?

£625m? Fucking hell!

Over the next ten years, players values are going to continue inflating massively. I wouldn't be surprised to see '£100million' players soon.

ridiculous.

Tweedle wrote:

L r d wrote:Madrid and barca both got a 1 billion t.v deal each over so many years. So top clubs will still keep in touch, but the rest probably not.

How many years?

7 i think or maybe it's 10

L r d wrote:

Tweedle wrote:

L r d wrote:Madrid and barca both got a 1 billion t.v deal each over so many years. So top clubs will still keep in touch, but the rest probably not.

How many years?

7 i think or maybe it's 10

So thats about £100m a year?

They win I guess

First time ive heard of this 1BN deal.

Target Man wrote:First time ive heard of this 1BN deal.

You even posted a thread about it ffs

L r d wrote:

Target Man wrote:First time ive heard of this 1BN deal.

You even posted a thread about it ffs

maybe he made it up

U sure? Probably did.

Tweedle wrote:

L r d wrote:

Target Man wrote:First time ive heard of this 1BN deal.

You even posted a thread about it ffs

maybe he made it up

Would you stop with the winking. Lots of people were talking about it at the time and many articles on the deal. It's 7 years not 10 goes to 2013. It might be euro not pounds though. 150 mill euro per year they get. If the big clubs in England got there own t.v deals, then probably would get around the same.

Assuming the bubble does not burst the next deal has to involve an increase in funding for ALL league clubs or the Premiership will become too big financially.

Madrid and Barca's deals are over 7 years, and both are close to a billion. One is slightly over and one slightly under, though I can't remember which is which.

Or it might be ours was around 900-something million but for 6 years, can't really remember. But yeah, big numbers all round.

Further BBC comment on the deal:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A19021277

New TV deal unveiled, Baby Bentleys for all
Premiership
by Matt Slater - BBC Sport 18 January 2007

This Big Brother racism ruckus has got a bit serious, hasn't it? It seems to have reached such a sorry state that we have sent our top man to India to say sorry to a country that has an increasingly large say in our financial well-being.

But if anybody can persuade the Indians that we are still brilliant and modern and cosmopolitan and basically the best, then it is Premier League boss Richard Scudamore. Let's just hope that he can keep our Commonwealth cousins sweet with his promise of "international football projects".

I can't think of a better man for the job. Because on Wednesday, Scudamore, before jetting off to the sub continent, was dotting the i's and crossing the t's on a new £625m deal for overseas television rights - more than double the current three-year deal. And to think the Bank of England is worried about inflation.

To be honest, us BBC types should have known Scudamore had found another golden ticket (I guess we were too preoccupied with the negotiations for our own humble media offerings). He was on the premises as a guest speaker at our News and Sport Festival (and yes, there were biscuits and bowls of fruit).

His panel discussion was titled "Investigating Sport: An Own Goal?" and he was joined in the dock, sorry, on the stage by our very own John Inverdale, ITV's Gabriel Clarke and BBC new boy/journalistic gumshoe Mihir Bose.

Without wanting to break the "what goes on tour..." code that was in operation, I can confirm that Scudamore was given a fairly rough ride by your truth-seeking representatives from the free press...well, he was moaned at for an hour by BBC hacks.

What was interesting was how well he took it. But then I suppose he would. He has the love and admiration of luxury car salesmen and chunky timepiece retailers across the land to sustain him.

So what does this new deal mean then?

Well, it means the bottom team next season will get more dosh than Blackburn earned last season for finishing sixth and qualifying for Europe. That figure, £26.8m, is more than 13 times what the average Championship or SPL club banks. Which is unlucky for them. Oh, and the team which finishes first in our "best league in the world" four-club race for the title will trouser £50m.

So that is more moolah from top to bottom. And far, far more euros than our continental neighbours have at their disposal. Getting all four "English" clubs into the last 16 of the Champions League should no longer be seen as a feat, it should be a par score.

But as well as more foreign viewers, this deal means more foreign players and owners. The English league has won. It has become the most attractive place to play football and the best place to run a football business. If we could do something about our weather the Premiership v La Liga v Serie A triangular series would be as close as the one currently being staged Down Under.

English football has won in the same way the City of London has become a world centre for financial services and Wimbledon is known for its tennis tournament. Namely, we might not provide the personnel but at least the big show is on our patch.

As Scudamore boasted to The Daily Telegraph: "The irony of all the negative headlines generated by the Stevens inquiry (into nasty old corruption in the beautiful game) is that we actually had our best year in all the time I have been here, bar none."


So why then don't I share his view that these are the best of times?

Perhaps it's because I'm still angry about the World Cup campaign staged by our golden generation and their handsomely paid coach.

Perhaps it's because pretty much the same combination have since failed to beat Macedonia at home and were then well beaten by Croatia away.

Perhaps it's because an English player can hardly get a place in Arsenal's academy team these days, let alone the first XI.

Perhaps it's because 11 of the 17 Premiership clubs that were in the league last year are getting fewer fans through the turnstiles than they did in 2005-2006.

Perhaps it's because most Premiership games I have seen this season have looked like contests between two teams desperate not to lose as opposed to two determined to win.

Perhaps it's because the only time a footballer will agree to talk to me about football so that I can write about it these days is if I agree to mention which computer game he spends his afternoons playing.

Perhaps it's because a player as limited as Lucas Neill can now earn a reported £60,000 a week.

Perhaps it's just January and I'm in a mood.

So well done Richard. And a big welcome to the Premiership party to Hong Kong channel PCCW, I hope you find your £10m investment for the right to broadcast the likes of Watford v Wigan is worth it.

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Those parts in bold are the ones that I most agree with...this increased money is glossing over the slow cracks that are developing. While most of them may be old and keep coming up every year, I think the most worry one for the game is the true fact that more often than not nowadays (on the international stage as well), teams are playing not to lose rather than to win.

And one addition I would make is the calamitous defensive errors that almost always give one team a result. Every weekend seems to have one of these games.

This is nothing new, clubs that actually manage to stay in the premiership have already been quoted to say that they will stand to make 25 mill more. This deal for the bottom clubs is nothing new.

kas wrote:
But as well as more foreign viewers, this deal means more foreign players and owners. The English league has won. It has become the most attractive place to play football and the best place to run a football business. If we could do something about our weather the Premiership v La Liga v Serie A triangular series would be as close as the one currently being staged Down Under.

English football has won in the same way the City of London has become a world centre for financial services and Wimbledon is known for its tennis tournament. Namely, we might not provide the personnel but at least the big show is on our patch.

Wenger's lasting legacy to English football will be the building of first totally indoor training complex and thus saving English football from the weather.

Dutch football could already not compete with this money-throwing-away deals of TV companies so it makes not any difference at all. The poorest Premierhip team is already richer than the richest Eredivisie team... We can only hope the English robberies shoot themselve in the foot...

I hope the spectators will AGAIN reduce massively at the EPL. I see already many half full stadiums in England so that's good news...

I hope TV companies cannot fullfill the crazy amount of deals so many EPL teams come in huge debt....

I am only afraid that the massive English lobby would AGAIN pressure the FA to change the RULES on the stricter financial policies so they can help all the insolvent EPL clubs...Would be the end of european football though.... But the English also easily changed the rules to get Everton into Europe while there was absolutely NO reason for that so they can play criminal games with the UEFA again.......

But do the English care about that...?