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Hello, I'm Mark Chapman.

Welcome to the Business of Sport podcast on The Athletic.

Coming up today, after it emerged last week,

the Premier League has held talks to scrap its upcoming domestic

TV rights auction and instead roll over its existing

five billion pounds deal.

We'll ask simply, what next for broadcast rights in English football?

Well, I say simply, it might not be.

This is the business of sport from the Athletic.

Well, as you've written Matt this week on the Athletic in a massive article,

wasn't it, which I know probably took you quite a while to dig into,

but you've written on the financial state really of the Premier League clubs,

revenues down, losses up.

One of the themes as well is that even in normal times,

there would have been concern

as to what the next domestic broadcast deal would look like. And the Premier League are pushing

for something a bit different with this next one that's coming. Yeah, I mean, it's a similar

picture. Well, until last year, really, even before we came into COVID. What was

Alan Sugar said about TV money going through football clubs like Prune Juice, you know,

in the front or out of the back? Football clubs, you know, spend, spend what they've got to

spend. About 70% of Premier League income comes from TV money. It's been a fantastic success

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