New TV deal

[OCD]

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/premier-league-announces-audio-visual-rights.html

Best cancel ESPN sharpish. They've lost both the football and UFC.

Who got UFC?

Not been decided yet. Deal with ESPN expires in August so they'll announce it then I imagine.

FX are showing Maynard-Guida on the 23rd so presumably that will be where future events are shown beyond the ESPN contract. In the US, the UFC has gone over to Fox so I wouldn't surprised if FX showed them here in future.

[Lizz]

Having paid at various times for Sky, Virgin Media & BT Vision, in my experience television wise, BT take some beating for unreliable service. That said, the broadband service is good.

[enigma]

I suppose if nothing else it'll help us with the wages to turnover ratio. Astonishing figures there though. The bottom club will apparently get more than Man City did for coming first this season.

[DeKuip]

That's insane money that will kill off the real fans even more.

Sounds a bit extreme having us killed off now they're getting more money. I shall be careful who I open the door to from now on.

[Percy McCarthy]

If that's correct about a 70% rise, Al Jazeera must have really put the shits up them.

Got to say they've done well there in a recession.

[Matt Collins]

And it's all going into players' pockets, with 10% for their agents. How bloody marvellous.

I hope we don't sign another set of sidwells and beye's.

[eamonn]

So football has not only eaten itself, it's also "vommed" it back up and is now in the process of sucking itself off/dry.

[adrenachrome]

So football has not only eaten itself, it's also "vommed" it back up and is now in the process of sucking itself off/dry.

Football is the dog's bollocks.

[darren woolley]

So the rich get richer.

[The Left Side]

It's good to talk

[Percy McCarthy]

It's actually distributed quite equitably compared to some leagues.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

It's actually distributed quite equitably compared to some leagues.

It certainly is, but that's not the issue, is it? It's where it gets distributed once it gets to the club. Subsidising lower ticket prices?  Allowing more money to trickle down the pyramid to help poorer clubs down there survive/have a better chance of making the Promised Land? Probably not.

At least it will postpone the pressure for Scudamore to conjure up even more revenue through his whacked-out 39th game malarkey.

[Olneythelonely]

I'm still going to watch games illegally. Fuck you Scudamore and fuck you Murdoch. I'll still with loads of buffering and not being able to see the ball.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

So when is the the bubble that Doug was talking about in the nineties going to burst?

any year now, and we will be superbly placed to take full advantage of it and regain our rightful place at the top of the footy tree

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Does this mean that Hugh Johns will get a new contract?