Can't remember reading a post on here about this. Sky have agreed a new £600m deal which will ultimately allow championship clubs to stream midweek matches via their websites providing the match is not being televised. Just one link here. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...sky-sports-600m-television-deal-a7943086.html
Decent enough idea, although maybe will see a few less going to midweek games. There's no one else likely to be in the market for EFL rights so I wouldn't have though Sky Sports had much difficulty landing the deal. If they had a decent highlights package that just showed all the goals, like the old Football League Review, I'd be happy with Sky Sports' coverage. Anything other than the awful Football on 5 rubbish.
The championships becoming a big deal outside of the UK. Expect this league to sperate financially from league 1 massively in the next 5 years.
It was on here a couple of days ago - it sounds like basically the iFollow service will also stream games in the UK the same as they do outside the UK now. I guess at a substantial price increase. For me who can never get to midweek games it would be great but I cant help feeling that gates will suffer
Apparently BT Sport bid the most first, Sky offered more and the security of five years and BT Sport wouldn't get in a bidding war with a second bid like they did over Ashes coverage for this winter. I think it's a poor deal myself even with the 30 odd percent increase on the current one. Masters Tennis is moving to Amazon and You Tube have the Hughie Fury heavyweight title match coming up. Google is amongst other online competitors wanting a slice of the sporting action, on top of Sky, BT Sport, even channels like Quest and Dave. EFL should be doing 3 year contracts at the most, more so now with the ever changing landscape of competition. Sky have got themselves a bargain because with a bidding war for the contract after this I can see it cracking one billion pounds for a year or two less.
