NEIL DONCASTER has refuted claims that rival broadcasters were not given an opportunity to bid for the rights to SPFL matches before the league extended their deal with Sky Sports this week, saying that a full and proper process was followed.
The SPFL announced the completion of a new broadcasting deal with Sky yesterday that will eventually be worth £30m per season by 2028/29, after 41 of the 42 member clubs voted in favour of accepting the proposal. Rangers are believed to be the only club who opposed the new deal.
The SPFL chief executive says though that any suggestion potentially interested parties such as BT Sport, who previously held rights to broadcast SPFL games, were not given the opportunity to put a bid forward is a ‘fallacy’.
