



Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani, who also owns the streaming service Eleven Sports, has talked more cryptically about the Championship’s business model being unsustainable and perhaps it being time to reconsider a breakaway Premier League 2. Morris has been the most vocal critic and he believes the league should be offering smaller bundles of games to several broadcasters and new streaming platforms.Īndrea Radrizzani with Victor Orta (Image: Getty Images Europe) Championship clubs told the EFL board to have another look and that has been the closest we have come to an agreed position all year. The Sky deal was provisionally agreed 14 months ago and Leagues One and Two signed off on it earlier this year. Good question and the short answer is we do not know because they cannot agree. What do the Championship clubs propose instead? This explains why there is also a more general, third complaint about the impact of midweek streaming on gates, although it should be noted that every club also sees streaming as a potential revenue source for them, so it is a case of who is doing the streaming and when they are doing it. He, and several others, also believe it is wrong for any professional league to be tied into a deal for five years when broadcast technology is changing so fast. Middlesbrough WON'T back breakaway in Sky TV deal row but want action against EFL board.On the former, the likes of Derby owner Mel Morris point out that for Championship clubs it is worth about 1/20th of what Premier League clubs are earning for their broadcasting rights and he believes that should be closer to 1/4th. It depends who you ask but the main complaints are it is not enough money and the deal lasts too long.

It wanted to be able to do this for its commercial customers, too, namely pubs, but the league pushed back and a compromise was reached giving Sky eight more midweek games it can put on another channel on nights when it is showing a game on its main channel. A camera position at the Riverside stadium, Middlesbrough
