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TV football deal '�14m boost per club'

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Football's Premier League, the richest sporting organisation in the country, has just announced a new television deal which is 70% bigger than the old one. BSkyB and BT have paid more than £3bn between them. Why?

Tom Cannon, Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Liverpool and the former culture secretary David Mellor debate.


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