Broadcasters who win the rights to televise live English Premier League football could be forced to sell some games to rivals under proposals drawn up by media regulator Ofcom, the Guardian says.
The paper says the plans, if adopted by the European Commission, which is investigating the sale of Premiership TV rights, would end the 13-year monopoly of satellite group BSkyB.
The forthcoming auction of rights from the start of the 2007 season could see the most radical changes to British football coverage since the league’s inception in 1992. An existing idea from the regulators could see individual broadcasters limited to 50% of the live games put up for sale, an idea that has been strongly resisted by the Premiership.
The additional constraint means the winners of the rights to televise Premiership games 2007-2010 would have to sub-license the games on a ‘fair and non-discriminatory’ basis.

Posted: 09|12|05 at 9:41 am. Filed under: UK News.