{"id":297549,"date":"2025-11-20T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:00:07","slug":"champions-league-paramount-wins-rights-to-show-games-in-uk-from-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297549\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Paramount wins rights to show games in UK from 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US media giant Paramount has won the rights to show Champions League matches in the UK from 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has been told the company will pay well in excess of the \u00a31bn-a-year deal currently in place with TNT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal will run for four years to 2031. Amazon Prime will continue to show a game every Tuesday in the UK for four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paramount&#8217;s deal comes after the joint UC3 initiative between European football&#8217;s governing body Uefa, the European Club Association and commercial rights partner Relevent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paramount worked with Uefa on the elaborate films screened around the Champions League draw for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources have suggested the deal could be seen as good news for the Premier League given it adds another big broadcasting name to the football rights market and should not lead to an overall reduction in the TV pot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has recently been speculation of a bid by Paramount for Warner Bros Discovery, which includes TNT in its portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US media giant Paramount has won the rights to show Champions League matches in the UK from 2027.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-297549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}