TNT Sports\u2019 2024-27 deal had been worth \u00a3915million, with a total three-year value of \u00a31.2billion, but the four-year deals for Paramount+, Sky Sports and Amazon will be worth more than \u00a31.9billion, \u00a3480million a year over four years from 2027 to 2031.<\/p>\n
Paramount+ will show all Champions League games apart from one match per round on Amazon Prime, with Sky Sports winning the rights to show Europa League and Conference League games. The BBC will continue to have the highlights. The deals look to be a ringing endorsement of Uefa\u2019s decision to change the formats of its club competitions.<\/p>\n
Although the big news is around a new broadcaster entering the market \u2014 with accompanying fears around fans having to pay for yet another subscription \u2014 analysts believe the shake-up leaves Sky in an even stronger position.<\/p>\n
Francois Godard, a senior media analyst for Enders Analysis, said: \u201cParadoxically, increased fragmentation of TV coverage leaves Sky in a stronger position. They have by far the biggest sports subscriber base and are in the unique position of creating \u2018all-in-one\u2019 bundles.\u201d<\/p>\n
That means that subscribers may be able to buy Sky, TNT Sports and Paramount in a single bundle for a discounted price. Intriguingly, Paramount has also bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, and if that is successful it would almost certainly take control of TNT Sports as well.<\/p>\n
Uefa has also secured 30 per cent increases in the value of the rights in Germany and Italy, and 10 per cent up in Spain. Only in France, where the sports TV rights market is struggling, was there a slight drop. <\/p>\n
The success of Paramount and the entry of a new broadcaster into the market should be positive news for the Premier League as it means their existing rights holders\u2019 budgets will not be paying out large sums for the Champions League. <\/p>\n
Fifa out of tune as it trumpets \u2018historic World Cup moment\u2019![\"Curacao](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/fd31e985-5e2f-4355-894e-68e5bbbb1a45.jpg\")
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Cura\u00e7ao supporters cheer on their team\u2026 at a caf\u00e9 in Rotterdam<\/p>\n
MARCO VAN DER CAAIJ\/EPA<\/p>\n
Fifa has been trumpeting its financial support for the Caribbean island of Cura\u00e7ao, population 156,000, after it became the smallest nation ever to have qualified for the World Cup, saying this was \u201can historical achievement fuelled by Fifa\u2019s backing\u201d.<\/p>\n
It failed to mention, however, that almost every member of the Cura\u00e7ao squad was born and raised in the Netherlands, and one who was not, Sheffield United\u2019s Tahith Chong, went to Feyenoord as a ten-year-old before joining Manchester United\u2019s academy.<\/p>\n
How Burnley fell foul of VAR\u2026 in 1922<\/p>\n
There are some fascinating stories in a new academic paper about English football clubs\u2019 experiences of summer European tours from 1900-1939 \u2014 they headed to the continent as the FA strictly enforced a ban on playing in the close season.<\/p>\n
Peter Beck, an international history professor at Kingston University, and Matthew Taylor, of DeMontfort University, have written a study published in Soccer & Society journal. In an early example of VAR, Burnley\u2019s secretary-manager John Haworth berated the \u201cawful\u201d refereeing on their 1922 tour of northern Italy, adding: \u201cAs an example, we won a corner; he [referee] went and consulted a spectator, and then gave a goal kick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derby County, meanwhile, complained that it was difficult to see the goalposts when they played in Germany in 1924 due to the widespread use of camouflaged paint.<\/p>\n
Man United leap out of last century to become \u2018data-driven club\u2019<\/p>\n
Manchester United are throwing a lot of money and resources at data analysis after Sir Jim Ratcliffe derided the club\u2019s use of it as \u201clast century\u201d when he took over.<\/p>\n
Michael Sansoni was poached from the Mercedes Formula 1 team in the summer to be director of data, and United are now advertising for a data operations manager. <\/p>\n
The job ad states United are \u201con an ambitious journey to become a fully data-driven club\u2026 and we are building a world-class data and technology function\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English cricket chiefs have been told to cut the rap by MCC, which has asked for \u201cmore recognisable\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-300304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300304","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=300304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}