English Premier League Broadcast Rights Finalized

by woodpeck | February 6, 2009 at 09:21 am

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English Football still bucks the global recession with the huge sale of it broadcast rights.

More than 80% of live televised Premier League games will appear on BSkyB after the broadcaster snatched some of the TV rights from rival Setanta.

The broadcasters have each won one of the two remaining packages of UK broadcast rights for 2010 to 2013.

The deal takes the total generated from selling the rights to £1.782bn - about 5% more than the current deal.

Earlier this week the Premier League said BSkyB had retained four of the six packages of audio-visual rights.