The Premier League has sold the UK broadcasting rights for a record £5.136 billion for the next three seasons, which is a 71% increase in the value of the rights from the last round. Sky Sports has paid £4.2 billion for five of the seven TV packages while BT Sport has paid £960 million for the other two packages in the record TV rights auction. This TV deal is said to run for next three years from 2016 to 2019.
Sky Sports is said to have paid 83% more than it did in the last round three years ago. They also mentioned that they will pay £1.392 billion per year (or £11.07 million per match) for the right to broadcast 126 live matches, which is 10 matches more than what they currently broadcast.