Sky extends Premier League TV rights with £1bn bid
WOUHOU! Sky has paid more than one billion pounds sterling to maintain its icy hold on live TV coverage of the FA Premier League. Rupert Murdoch’s masters of hype will have the rights for 92 out of the 138 matches available, including the prestigious 4pm Sunday kick-off slots.
Anorak can’t help but admire Sky’s commitment to the Premier League, but it would have been nice to see another broadcaster - one you don’t have to subscribe to, say - get in on the act.
Now we can look forward to more hyperbolic coverage like this:
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February 4th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
that’s where your subscription has gone to, eh Yampster…? subsidising overpaid pampered walking egos, commonly referred to as Premiership footballers….? I have never understood why these posturing jerks get paid such obscene amounts of money when they need 10 other people around them to get a result….?? somebody please explain….??????
February 4th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I subscribe to Sky Sports. I don’t want to share the Premier League with common people. Let them eat Laegue One