{"id":1370,"date":"2018-02-12T17:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:14:03","slug":"hallam-expert-talks-to-the-bbc-ahead-of-new-television-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/02\/12\/hallam-expert-talks-to-the-bbc-ahead-of-new-television-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallam expert talks to the BBC ahead of new television deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Hallam expert talks to the BBC ahead of new television deal.\u00a0 <\/strong>Football finance expert Dr Rob Wilson spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09qdmtc#play\">BBC 5Live<\/a> about the new deal for Premier League television rights, which is expected to exceed \u00a36bn today. The last deal saw an increase of 70% and Dr Wilson gives his thoughts on the expected increase this time around, which will see more than 200 live games broadcast from the 2019\/20 season, and whether digital companies like Amazon may make a bid for the rights. You can listen to the interview on the above link from 19:05.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further coverage for Hallam&#8217;s football finance experts who have been discussing the new TV rights deal for the English Premier League. <\/strong>Dr Rob Wilson spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w172vr0sz24yzx4\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">BBC World Service<\/span><\/a> [listen again from 16:10] about why the Premier League has seen a decline in the bid for rights to broadcast matches in the UK.\u00a0 In total BT and Sky bid \u00a34.4bn to screen 200 games for each season between 2019 and 2022, falling short of the \u00a35.1bn agreed in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dr Dan Plumley spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09r3xpg\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">BBC Radio Wales<\/span><\/a> [listen again from 1:49:14] about the TV rights deal as part of an interview which focussed on crowdfunding for athletes travelling to Pyeongchang to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The pair also wrote a blog piece for the <a href=\"https:\/\/footballcollective.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/12\/footballs-tv-billions-are-set-to-rise-but-is-the-game-about-to-eat-itself\/?preview=true\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Football Collective<\/span><\/a> about why the football TV rights deal has seen such a staggering increase in the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallam expert talks to the BBC ahead of new television deal.\u00a0 Football finance expert Dr Rob Wilson spoke to BBC 5Live about the new deal for Premier League television rights,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2258,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/02\/Premier-League-TV.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-m6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":171,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2017\/05\/12\/other-stories-to-hit-the-news-may\/","url_meta":{"origin":1370,"position":0},"title":"Other stories to hit the news &#8211; May","author":"Anna Gunn","date":"May 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Huddersfield Town earn a place in the Premier League and a huge financial windfall Football finance expert Rob Wilson spoke to the BBC World Service about the financial windfall Huddersfield Town are due following their penalty shoot-out victory over Reading in the play-off final. 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