Sky has acquired its biggest package of games since the start of the Premier League after the English top flight sold the majority of its domestic broadcast rights to the Comcast-owned broadcaster alongside TNT Sports for more than ￡1.6bn a year.
The deal, worth ￡6.7bn over four seasons including highlights awarded to the BBC, was a critical test of the Premier League’s bargaining power with broadcasters, locking in revenues until 2029.
Sky has acquired four of the five packages being sold through the auction, the maximum for any one broadcaster, with more than 200 games during the season including its key “Super Sunday” slots. The remaining package of games on Saturday lunchtime has been acquired by TNT, the broadcaster co-owned by BT and Warner Brothers Discovery.