Sky pay Ј5.1BILLION for Premier Footie

A question about : Sky pay Ј5.1BILLION for Premier Footie

This is insane. If this covers 4 years and Sky have around 11m UK subscribers then this means everyone is effectively paying well over Ј100 a year just to fund this. No wonder I currently have to pay nearly Ј60 a month for a Variety + Movies package with HD and Multiroom........

Best answers:

• if it keeps the football off real TV i am all for it
• Sky didn't but what's an incorrect headline in today's world.
• https://business.sky.com/roi/pubs-clubs/
• That pays for the footballers wages.
  Hey, if they had a serious wage then everyone would be better off.
  Perhaps we should ban football for three years and see what happens to people's pockets...
• Sky paid an 86% increase to maintain their 126 game dominance, which means further cost cutting (over the last increase cost cutting) and further subscription increases.
  BT paid a modest 30% increase, which means they can continue to offer BT Sport included in a BT Broadband subscription. This, along with all the Champions League, Europa League and joint BBC/BT Sport FA Cup coverage is a far stronger line up than what they have now.
  Interesting times.