A new £150million TV for Scottish football could be agreed as soon as next month.
The SPFL are in talks with Sky Sports despite the current agreement not expiring until 2025 and only came into effect last September. The new proposal would see the maximum number of games the broadcaster can show increase from 48 to 60 per season, although they opted not to take their full allocation of live matches last term
The money going into club coffers would increase from £25 million to £30million, but that jump wouldn’t happen fully until the 2028/29 campaign. Given the bump in number of games being shown, the pounds for game ratio would actually fall compared to the current deal, working out at around £500k per match. A further ten-game bundle is also available to Sky from 2024/25 and matches not picked up for live broadcast could then be sold on a pay-per-view basis by clubs for punters to watch within the UK and Ireland.
