I've heard a number of commentators saying recently that each position in the table is worth half a million pounds. Today, one said it's 580GBP. Does that mean last place gets 580,000 and first gets 11,600,000? That's a total of almost 122 million pounds. Where does it come from? That's a lot of money for BarclayCard. Dick.
I am not sure about what this season's figure for each place is, but I would have expected it to be £500k plus. The system does work as you thought - i.e. one share for the team finishing last, up to 20 shares for the winners. The money chiefly comes from a distribution of TV rights payments - the sponsorship from Barclaycard forms only a small part of it. In comparison with just participating in the Champions League, however, the sums are small.
I think 1st gets £25m and last £15m. That`s about £400m a year. Since the last deal the EPL signed with Sky was a 3 year deal worth £1.2Billion that would seem about right.
How many games get televised in Britain? We in the US typically get 2 or 3 games on Sat & Sun, then two more on Tue & Wed. Dick.
Usually about four EPL games per week. That`s on Satelite and Cable. Plus an extra couple of pay-per-view games.
The total pool of money is around £400m a year, but the prize money is allocated in the way suggested by dmonahan's original post. The rest of the pool involves each team getting a flat rate payment then variable payments that are determined by the number of times they are on TV, the type of transmission (e.g. live, extended highlights, brief highlights) and a proportion of overseas sales.
So we probably get the same games you do. Is there any concept of local TV there? I.e., does the Liverpool area get all the home side's games? And, there are obviously 3 or 4 production companies, based on the graphics we see (the time & score box in the upper left, distance to goal overlays, ads on bottom, etc.). What ever happened to all the electronic overlay ads that we used to see on each side of the goal? They were absent this year. Dick.
The UK does have regional TV channels, but they don't contract for individual clubs' games. TV rights are sold on a collective basis - e.g. via the FA Premiership and the Football League. The European Commission regards this as a cartel (or a trust, in US terms) and wants to allow clubs to sell rights to their own home games but so far hasn't taken any action. It's really between the BBC (for some cup games), ITV and Sky I don't think we get those over here!
It depends on whether you`re only talking about EPL games. They`re all done by Sky. The FA Cup is covered by Sky/BBC and the ECL by Sky/ITV. They do have different graphics. And yes, I think the games selected for British TV broadcast are the ones distributed internationally, those games have all the camera angles and better time slots for some regions for live broadcast, esp. Asia.
http://www.footballtransfers.info/features/merit0203.shtml That shows the Prize money for the 2002/2003 season. The total (£105,127,000) makes up for a quarter of the money paid to clubs by the Premier League. Half (~£210m) is split evenly between the clubs (so ~£10m) and the rest is paid per game shown on television.