The Premier League is the professional football competition in England, and according to the opinion of many enthusiasts, it is considered the most spectacular football championship in the world, with the largest audience. Sponsored by Barclays, the Premier League has over time managed to become the most profitable football league in the world.
The crisis caused by COVID-19 also had profoundly negative effects on football clubs in England, many of the championship matches being postponed due to the infection of players or members of the technical teams. Thus, 22 games that were supposed to be played in the last months were postponed, and will take place on a date set later by the English forum. Of these, 14 matches were to be broadcast live by major television stations in England that hold the TV rights to Premier League matches.
It is known that a large part of the budgets of the teams in the Premier League comes from the television rights of the matches, the main sports televisions in England paying sums of the order of hundreds of millions of pounds so that the fans in the country, and all over the world, follow the matches live on their channels.
Due to the postponement of the matches from the first lockdown period, for three months, the television losses were around 330 million pounds, according to the press in England. A good part of this amount should have reached the football clubs, which collect considerable sums of money from television rights every year. Many of these losses can be found during the Christmas period, when the television stations collect income from advertising, all of this due to the postponement of the matches.
Thus, the Premier League will reimburse this amount to the main television stations that broadcast the English league matches, Amazon, BT Sport and SKY. Among the three, BT Sport suffered the most, which, in its Christmas programs, included the transmission of football matches, 6 of which were rescheduled.
SKY TV, which is the largest owner of the television rights of the Premier League, suffered the least, only two of the matches that were to be broadcast by them, being rescheduled. Amazon also had to suffer a lot, only less than 3 matches being postponed. If this season there will be more matches that will be postponed, it is more than certain that other reimbursements to televisions will follow.
