I noticed that the SPL signed a new 5 year TV deal with Sky which is £30m pa spread between the 12 clubs.

It just shows the vast gulf between Scottish and English football. Palace get around £120m pa and some of the higher clubs will get £150m pa on their own.

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I'm not sure if this deal is even on a par with the Football League? It looks like Championship clubs get more.

The one interesting point is that SPL clubs are allowed to pay per view 5 games per season. I suspect Rangers and Celtic would love to increase this number.

Edited by Badger11 (30 Sep 2022 9.45am)

One more point

My guess is the TV companies are looking for cheaper alternatives to fill screen hours on their sports channel offering -
The price to be a PL & CL football provider goes up time after time & it seems that each year there are more companies bidding for a slice of that action, ultimately not all of those TV channels can be bid winners & not all subscribers will be ready to pay the top dollar subscriptions required to watch all of the action -(often involving having to subscribe to more than one provider)

Even more so in the current economic climate -

I can certainly see that there is likely going to come a time when there will be a push to keep this revenue in house & clubs stream through their own TV channels -

Yes it favours the rich -
Each club will (at least in the beginning) only have access / screening rights to their own home games - somehow going forward there would need to be a deal in place for away teams to be able to buy the screening & sell it to subscribers on their own network -
Someone needs to overturn this 3pm Saturday screening rule -
Presumably somewhere in the - I want to be a PL club handbook - their are rules that would have to be navigated / maybe even have to expire before that can be done -
Probably every club in a division would have to agree to embark on doing it at the same time otherwise the whole thing just gets disjointed -
Somehow international broadcasting rights deals would have to be navigated or allowed to expire -for example I struggle to see BEIN sports (Qatar) allowing that to happen without throwing serious money at the challenge, enough money to make it not worth the clubs going to the bother of changing the status quo -

Just a few thoughts -

If Scottish football came free with Palace TV I still wouldn't watch it - ( unless we had a loan player involved or some other tangible connection)

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