the gunslinger 3,366 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 sky have the cl without this deal and the don't seem interested in celtc in qualifiers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 THE collapse of Rangers has cost the SPL a massive £17million from one TV deal alone. After weeks of negotiations the game’s top flight finally clinched a new five-year Sky agreement yesterday but it’s well short of the millions on offer when Rangers were in the SPL. Last year Sky and the country’s leading clubs had settled on £80m over five years but the contracts were never signed. And it’s believed the deal will give the SPL only £63m over a similar period. But from that figure £9m will have to be paid to the SFL over the next three years and then £4m over the remaining two years of the deal. That, of course, means several SPL clubs are still facing financial hardship. With Rangers in the Third Division the SFL were able to sell their TV rights to the SPL for just more than £1m a year for the next three years and that fee will have to come out of the new Sky deal. The SPL must also pay a £2m settlement fee – agreed when the top clubs broke away in 1998 – every year and that, too, will be taken out of the new telly package. So, with SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and Celtic chief Peter Lawwell, who led the negotiating team, having agreed a new package worth just less than £13m a year the amount to be spread among the 12 top clubs is actually only around £10m a year for the next three years. For the remaining two years of the deal the figure will be closer to £11m, although there will be clauses in the new agreement which will allow for an increase should Rangers win promotion every season for the next three. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f...v-deal-1198156 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 2,060 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'd be interested to see how much of a difference this will mean to the prize monies on offer for final positions in the SPL. This reduction, coupled with falling ST sales is a recipe for disaster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker 887 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 That's still a damn sight better than I thought they were going to get. The SPL were due to pay the £2m / yr compensation to the SFL with or without our presence, so it's only the £1m for 3 years for TV to SFL which is an additional conseqence to the decreased Sky payment. They would have got £80m - £10m (£2m/yr to the SFL for 5 yrs) = £70m They now get £63m - £10m (£2m/yr to the SFL for 5 yrs) - £3m (£1m/yr to the SFL for TV right for 3 yrs) = £50m That's a fall of only 29%. I'd expected a fall of well over 50% 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuznetsov 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 sky have the cl without this deal and the don't seem interested in celtc in qualifiers. are qualifiers ever on sky mate? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 are qualifiers ever on sky mate? don't remember ours being on for a while at least. I suspect arsenals may be. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 this is a good deal for the SPL. indeed its not far if what they currently get. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dutchy Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 That's still a damn sight better than I thought they were going to get. The SPL were due to pay the £2m / yr compensation to the SFL with or without our presence, so it's only the £1m for 3 years for TV to SFL which is an additional conseqence to the decreased Sky payment. They would have got £80m - £10m (£2m/yr to the SFL for 5 yrs) = £70m They now get £63m - £10m (£2m/yr to the SFL for 5 yrs) - £3m (£1m/yr to the SFL for TV right for 3 yrs) = £50m That's a fall of only 29%. I'd expected a fall of well over 50% BBC Scotland's Jim Spence is reporting that the deal is not the downfall of scottish football after all. I wonder what it'll be like next season when everyone realises that no one has a chance against septic. A season ticket plunge I'd forecast. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sairdy 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 BBC Scotland's Jim Spence is reporting that the deal is not the downfall of scottish football after all. I wonder what it'll be like next season when everyone realises that no one has a chance against septic. A season ticket plunge I'd forecast. I thought I heard Spence say that it was only 10% down which made me double take. Looks more like 30% to me. Did anybody else hear him? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dutchy Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 I thought I heard Spence say that it was only 10% down which made me double take. Looks more like 30% to me. Did anybody else hear him? He did say that, and more than once, very excitedly on the second occasion. Unfortunately the quality of journos at that station is going down hill, big time, as none of them seem able to correct each others mistakes, which there are plenty off. In every aspect of reporting, news as well as sport. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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