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18/01/2007
Premiership sides net £625m TV rights deal
Next season's FA Premiership winner will receive £50 million, £20 million more than the current season's winner, following a new deal agreed on overseas television rights.
The deal guarantees that even the bottom team in the Premiership league will receive £30 million.
The deal will see the 20 FA Premiership league teams sharing a pot of £900 million each year over the next three years - more than double that of the previous arrangement.
This is in addition to the £1.7 billion television rights deal agreed last May with Sky and Ireland-based Setanta, and around £400 million from rights for internet and mobile phone packages.
Premiership league chief Richard Scudamore described the deal as taking the FA Premiership to "another level."
However, the deal radically widens the gulf between the 20 elite sides in England and those teams struggling to get into the honey pot of the FA Premiership.
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The deal guarantees that even the bottom team in the Premiership league will receive £30 million.
The deal will see the 20 FA Premiership league teams sharing a pot of £900 million each year over the next three years - more than double that of the previous arrangement.
This is in addition to the £1.7 billion television rights deal agreed last May with Sky and Ireland-based Setanta, and around £400 million from rights for internet and mobile phone packages.
Premiership league chief Richard Scudamore described the deal as taking the FA Premiership to "another level."
However, the deal radically widens the gulf between the 20 elite sides in England and those teams struggling to get into the honey pot of the FA Premiership.
(SP/EF)
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