Premier League: ESPN "very surprised" by the price paid by BT for domestic rights in 2013-2016

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Eric Johnson, the executive vice-president of global multimedia sales for the US-based sports pay-TV broadcaster ESPN, said he was "very surprised" by the (high) price paid by the UK telecommunications group BT to acquire the broadcast rights to the Premier League in the UK and Ireland, he stated at a conference in the United States on...


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