ECB Renews Sky Sports Deal
The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced a new broadcasting agreement deal with UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky Sports, from 2014 until 2017, with an option to extend for a further two years until 2019.
Sky Sports will show all England’s home Tests, one-day and Twenty20 internationals live, as well as some England Lions games and women’s internationals.
The broadcaster will also show 60 days of domestic cricket each season.
The option to extend for a further two years would include tours by India in 2018 and Australia in 2019.
Last week the ECB agreed a new deal with BBC Sport to broadcast ball-by-ball radio commentary, including Test Match Special, for international cricket until 2019.
The six-year-deal will see BBC radio provide live and exclusive coverage of all England’s home Tests, one-day internationals and Twenty20s.
A statement from the ECB said the new TV and radio deals mean ‘broadcasting agreements for the next contractual cycle will deliver an overall increase in revenues compared with the previous four-year period.’
However, the new deal means that no live cricket will appear on terrestrial television, since Sky took over from Channel 4 in 2006.
