Question: What happens when European Leagues sell their televsion rights individually?
Answer: a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs

Question: How is the teleivsion revenue distributed in the Premier League?
Answer: The money is divided into three parts:

Question: How is half of the money distributed?
Answer: half is divided equally between the clubs

Question: How is the final quarter of the money distributed?
Answer: the final quarter is paid out as facilities fees for games that are shown on television, with the top clubs generally receiving the largest shares of this.

Question: On what sort of basis does the Premier League sell its television rights?
Answer: collective basis

Question: How does La Liga sell its broadcasting rights?
Answer: individually

Question: Which clubs get the greatest share of broadcasting income when rights are sold individually?
Answer: the top few clubs

Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is divided equally by all La Liga clubs?
Answer: half

Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is awarded on a merit basis according to ranking at the end of the season?
Answer: one quarter

Question: How much was the amount of first five seasons of the Sky television rights?
Answer: The first Sky television rights agreement was worth £304 million over five seasons.

Question: How much many did the Premier League make from selling its internation rights during 2004-07?
Answer: The league brought in £320 million from the sale of its international rights for the three-year period from 2004–05 to 2006–07

Question: What happened to Sky's agreement in 2006.
Answer: Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.

Question: Why did this happen?
Answer: This occurred following an insistence by the European Commission that exclusive rights should not be sold to one television company.

Question: What was the average income from media from 2007-2010 for the Premier League?
Answer: giving Premier League clubs an average media income from league games of around £40 million-a-year from 2007 to 2010.

Question: How many seasons did the first television rights contract award to Sky?
Answer: five

Question: How much was the first television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £304 million

Question: How much was the second television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £670 million

Question: How much was the third television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £1.024 billion

Question: By being awarded television rights, which other network broke Sky's monopoly on Premier League coverage?
Answer: Setanta Sports

Question: Why has there been a several court cases against Sky and Premier League?
Answer: The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel

Question: What did the Office of Fair Trading decide regarding the claim that Sky abuses their position in 2002.
Answer: Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim

Question: Who investigated the Premier League's collective selling rights in 1999?
Answer: In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court,

Question: What did they decide about the collective selling issue?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.

Question: What has the agreement between the Premier League and Sky been accused of being?
Answer: a cartel

Question: Who investigated the agreement between the Premier League and Sky in 2002?
Answer: the Office of Fair Trading

Question: Who investigated how the Premier League sold television rights in 1999?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court

Question: How much money did Premier League earn regarding television rights in 2010-13?
Answer: Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion.

Question: How many games did BT show in 2013-16?
Answer: BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year.

Question: Who will show 116 games for that same time period?
Answer: The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid £760 million-a-year.

Question: How much have the domestic televsion rights increased from 2010-12 to 2012-13?
Answer: The total domestic rights have raised £3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights.

Question: How much did BT and Sky pay for their rights up to the 2018-19 season?
Answer: Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.

Question: When will the BBC's weekend highlights package run out?
Answer: 2016

Question: How much were Premier League television rights from 2010 to 2013 purchased for?
Answer: £1.782 billion

Question: When did Setanta Sports fail to meet their payments deadline?
Answer: 22 June 2009

Question: When Setanta Sports could not pay their bill to the league, which network took over broadcast rights from them?
Answer: ESPN

Question: On which date was it announced that BT was awarded a broadcasting contract?
Answer: 13 June 2012

Question: What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?
Answer: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in India?
Answer: In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in China?
Answer: In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season.

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in Canada?
Answer: As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN

Question: How many games does each of them broadcast?
Answer: both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.

Question: On which continent other than Europe is the Premier League especially popular?
Answer: Asia

Question: Which network is the main live broadcaster of Premier League in Australia?
Answer: Fox Sports

Question: Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch?
Answer: Foxtel

Question: Which network broadcasts Premier League live in India?
Answer: STAR Sports

Question: Which Chinese broadcaster has Premier League rights?
Answer: Super Sports

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in the United States?
Answer: The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports.

Question: What was the average viewership in the United States during the 2014-15 season?
Answer: with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season

Question: How many years did NBC Sports receive an extension for with the Premier League in 2015?
Answer: NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015

Question: What was the value of this extension?
Answer: in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).

Question: When will this extension end?
Answer: through the 2021–22 season

Question: Which American broadcaster shows the Premier League currently?
Answer: NBC Sports

Question: By what percentage has viewership in the US risen from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: 118%

Question: How many viewers on average watched the Premier League 2014-15 season in the US?
Answer: 479,000

Question: In which year did NBC Sports secure an extension of six years with the Premier League?
Answer: 2015