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Premier League rights may cost £2bn
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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 188848" data-attributes="member: 185281"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Sky win three packages - <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953846.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953846.stm</a></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Confimation by the FA Premier League, and confirmation of second round of bidding - <a href="http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.rac?command=setSelectedId&nextPage=enNewsLatest&id=1264255&type=com.fapl.website.news.NewsItem&categoryCode=NewsLatestFAPremierLeagueNews&breadcrumb=latestfa_breadcrumb" target="_blank">http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.rac</a></p><p></p><p>I think what may have happened is that Sky put the highest bid in for three of them, and NTL/Sentanta/Channel 4 beat Sky on the other three. Under the rules of the auction, the FA Premier League can start a second round of bidding <em>regardless of whether the first round bids were over the 'reserve price' the Premier League secretly had</em>. I suspect the Premier League just want to give Sky another chance. However, what happens if NTL, Sentanta, or a variety of merged bidders present a huge viable bid?</p><p></p><p>Also, there's no news on the packages won. What if Package A (23 First Choice games), is one of the packages still not won? If this was the case, expect some real fireworks. Who knows, Setanta and NTL may be secretly playing Sky's game by acting as seperate bidders, when in fact they're bidding together as a consortium?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 188848, member: 185281"] [B][SIZE=4]Sky win three packages - [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953846.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4953846.stm[/URL][/SIZE][/B] Confimation by the FA Premier League, and confirmation of second round of bidding - [URL="http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.rac?command=setSelectedId&nextPage=enNewsLatest&id=1264255&type=com.fapl.website.news.NewsItem&categoryCode=NewsLatestFAPremierLeagueNews&breadcrumb=latestfa_breadcrumb"]http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.rac[/URL] I think what may have happened is that Sky put the highest bid in for three of them, and NTL/Sentanta/Channel 4 beat Sky on the other three. Under the rules of the auction, the FA Premier League can start a second round of bidding [I]regardless of whether the first round bids were over the 'reserve price' the Premier League secretly had[/I]. I suspect the Premier League just want to give Sky another chance. However, what happens if NTL, Sentanta, or a variety of merged bidders present a huge viable bid? Also, there's no news on the packages won. What if Package A (23 First Choice games), is one of the packages still not won? If this was the case, expect some real fireworks. Who knows, Setanta and NTL may be secretly playing Sky's game by acting as seperate bidders, when in fact they're bidding together as a consortium?! [/QUOTE]
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