Premier League wins record rights deal | FT Business

2019-03-08 0

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Sky Sports and BT Sport have won the UK TV rights for the 2016 to 2019 Premier League football seasons for a combined value of just over £5.1bn. Roger Blitz, FT leisure industries correspondent, tells Daniel Garrahan why the rights are so expensive.

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