Premier League: details of the 2016-2019 domestic audiovisual rights lots acquired by Sky and BT

The British pay-TV group Sky plc. and BT Sport shared the seven lots (detailed below) of the main tender for domestic audiovisual rights to the 2016-2019 cycle of the Premier League, launched by the league on 12/12/2014 and 10/02/2015.

Sky plc., owner of Sky Sports in the UK, acquired five of the seven auction lots (compared to four for 2013 to 2016) which will give them exclusive rights to broadcast a total of 126 matches per season between 2016-17 and 2018-19, in comparison with 116 in 2013-2016, which translates as 8.6% more. Sky will pay £1.392bn (€1.88bn) per season, £4,176bn (€5.64bn) over the 2016-2019 period, representing a 83.2% increase from 2013-2016 (£760m / €898m per season, £2.28bn / €2.7bn over the period).

BT Sport, launched in the summer of 2013, acquired two of the seven lots (compared to three in 2013 to 2016), which will give them exclusive rights to broadcast a total of 42 matches per season across the 2016-2019 cycle, compared to 38 for 2013-2016, this translates as 10.5% fewer matches than in the previous cycle. The telecom group BT will pay £320m (€432m per…