A new five years telly deal with Sky Sports is reported to be in jeopardy despite the backing of Celtic and 10 other Premiership clubs.
The current broadcast deal has proved far from popular with fans and viewers with Sky failing to use up their full allocation of fixtures and providing lukewarm coverage of their live games.
With the current five year deal yet to reach the midway point it seems strange that there is a rush to add on five more years, committing Scottish football until the end of the 2029/30 season.
Today Sky Sports will show their second fixture of the campaign from Celtic Park, leaving them with two more matches to screen with Celtic unable to offer any of those matches on Pay-Per-View.
Reporting on the negotiations behind the scenes at the SPFL, Stephen McGowan of the Daily Mail reveals:
The fate of a £150million broadcast deal between Sky and the SPFL hangs in the balance after Rangers left league chiefs sweating over their final decision.
Premiership clubs were granted 28 days to deliberate over a new £30m-a-season extension to the current Sky agreement, with a voting deadline set for midnight on Saturday.
Eleven of the 12 top-tier teams have already said yes. Final agreement is conditional, however, on all 12 agreeing to a rule change permitting Sky to increase the number of home games they show from each ground from four per season to five. With the deadline edging closer, Rangers have yet to offer a view on the matter.
Rival clubs hope the Ibrox club will submit a letter of waiver ‘before’ the deadline lapses tomorrow. Failure to do so would see the resolution fail and place the Sky deal on the verge of collapse.
Prior to the current exclusive deal Sky shared coverage of the SPFL with BT Sport who would jump at any Celtic away matches not taken up by their rivals.
Last season Celtic away games at Hibs, Motherwell and Aberdeen weren’t shown live giving clubs the option of PPV, this season that is no longer on the table with the recent Ross County SPFL away match not available in the UK.
The deal is rubbish and shouldn’t be accepted. I was hoping more from Celtic with 2 other broadcaster having rights to Scottish football. Let it go to tender in a few years.
Here we go again whether it is CHISLING going on with Sky with deal and Scottish football being bumped,but just who is in charge of our game.
Is it the SPFL or the SFA or do sevco call the shots and hold all the aces,because it looks like what they say and do they get,and everyone else dances to their tune no does that bigger or better than our own club.
I don’t think anything to be concerned about new co need the money from sky badly so trying to show there deluded fans that there old co silly billies financial restraints are not been published by our so called news media old Mason club but fifa and fifa are watching, the sfa can’t protect them there is something wrong big time and looks like they are getting into mire again chasing holy grail brought down old co and through the years things are coming out that financially right or legal sit back and watch the cards tumble slow but sure for new co the have cost taxpayers £150,000,000 in tax and wrongful Court cases and charges all these lawlords have still got there jobs or retire full pension and some other big paying job masons are a cancer on our society law corridors our government and why the Church of Scotland still have big say in their assembly scottish version of house of Lords jobs for auld arse lickers
So, £30 million a year for 5 years when inflation is running riot? FFS Celtic, you can do a whole lot better. If it was divided equally between our 11 clubs and ‘them’, that’s £2.5 million a pop and I’d be fine with that to help evryone but ‘them’. But if Celtic openly cut the umbilical to the new huns, openly admit the OF is history, just like Rangers and ‘do our own thing’ we could make a fortune, an ongoing fortune with Global TV rights.
Anyway, get right intae them Celtic and don’t stop till it’s all over and they are shown up for what they are. SCUM.
Well i hope sky drop out of our games because its sevco they talk about all the time and show oldco videos have the newco no got any good videos no they haven’t so get sky to fuck out of scotland its a rip off anyway our money goes to the EPL so come on get sky masonic fuckpigs out of scotland rats that work for them.