Prem make 3pm blackout decision with 70 more TV games including final day drama
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Every Premier League match other than the Saturday 3pm kick-offs will be broadcast live from the 2025/26 season.
Prem bosses have outlined plans for their next TV rights cycle. It will see an additional 70 fixtures out of the 380 played each season be televised, including all of those on the final day, which is an increase from the current amount of 200.
Broadcasters will be able to battle it out for five live packages of between 42 and 65 games, and no single buyer will be able to purchase more than four. Another change is the introduction of an extra midweek set of fixtures.
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There had recently been reports of a new Sunday evening kick-off slot, but the current times of 12.30pm and 5.30pm on a Saturday, 2pm and 4.30pm on a Sunday, and 8pm on either a Friday or Monday will be kept the same.
The changes were announced in an Invitation To Tender issued on Wednesday (October 18) evening. It means the interested broadcasters can now plot their offers.
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The current TV deal for the English top-flight consists of Sky Sports having four packages totalling 128 matches per season, TNT Sports (previously BT Sport) two packages with 52 matches and Amazon just one package of 20 matches.
That agreement was rolled over in 2021 amid the pandemic after the government granted an exclusion order. As such, this tender process, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, is the first since 2018.
Previously the Premier League worked in three-year rights cycles, but that changed with the last one and will continue for the next, taking it through to the end of the 2028/29 campaign.
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