Sky Sports has agreed to pay 3.6 billion pounds ($5 billion) for a three-year deal to show 128 English Premier League soccer matches a season from 2019/20, less than it paid for its current broadcast dealꦅ.
Rival BT said it had agreed to pay $1.2 billion to show 3ꦯ2 games a season for three years, after five of seven packages were⛦ auctioned on Tuesday.
In total, the companies will pay $6.2 billion to secure the rights for 160 games a season ♊for🏅 three years.
The auction of two further packages of 20 games 𝕴each a season had not finished, with interest from multiple bidders, the Premier Lea🌸gue said on Tuesday.
The amount rais🐟ed so far, however, is below the $7.1 bil♔lion raised in 2015 for three-year packages to show 168 games a season.