Football
July 28th, 2014
By Alex Miller and Nick Harris
28 July 2014
Manchester United’s £47 million-per-year shirt sponsorship deal with Chevrolet has helped boost the combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs to a record £191.35m for the 2014-15 season.
United’s world-record deal was agreed and signed in 2012 on terms of $559m over seven years, starting with the coming season. The £47m-a-year is calculated at exchange rates at the time of the...
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July 22nd, 2014
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By Alex Miller Follow Alex on Twitter @AlexMiller73
22 July 2014
Despite Premier League clubs collecting massively enhanced payments last season, this season and next season from the latest TV deals, worth £5.5billion over three years from 2013-16, the benefits are not reaching fans, with 13 sides raising season ticket prices this season.
With clubs looking to maximise revenues to be able to compete in the Premier League within the...
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July 21st, 2014
By Nick Harris
21 July 2014
With almost four weeks still to go before the start of the 2014-15 Premier League season, the PR battle for TV viewers in the host country of the world's most-watched domestic football league is well underway. Sky Sports will again have the lion's share of the live games in the UK, having paid £2.28 billion for a majority of the UK live rights for the 2013-16 period. And BT Sport will again be trying to woo a portion of the pay-TV market, having paid £738m for their own share of matches.
The wider strategic aims of both...
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