Premier League tv viewing figures connected Sky Sports were down 10% past season, with the deficiency of jeopardy successful the rubric contention and relegation believed to beryllium down the reduction.
It showed 128 games past season, portion TNT Sports, which broadcasted 52 matches, had a 17% simplification successful its year-on-year figures.
The driblet successful Sky viewers comes aft 2 record-breaking seasons successful 2022-23 and 2023-24, wherever Manchester City bushed Arsenal to the rubric - the second connected the last day.
Liverpool wrapped up the rubric connected 27 April this season, portion Ipswich Town followed Southampton and Leicester City successful being relegated to the Championship the time before.
While Sky says numbers tracked intimately with the 2023-24 season, determination was a driblet disconnected implicit the last six weeks of the campaign.
That has been blamed connected the rubric contention being settled aboriginal and nary compelling relegation communicative astatine the different extremity of the table.
It is besides thought Sky's caller EFL deal, successful which much than 1,000 games are broadcast a season, could person impacted Premier League figures with audiences offered much options.
Next play volition spot adjacent much unrecorded Premier League matches connected TV when a caller grounds £6.7bn home broadcast woody starts.
Sky volition amusement astatine slightest 215 top-flight games live, up from 128, including each games moved to Sundays due to the fact that of clubs' engagement successful European competitions.
TNT Sports volition clasp its 52 games, including the Saturday 12:30 kick-offs and 2 midweek rounds, but determination volition beryllium nary Amazon Prime sum for the archetypal clip successful six years.
A study past period said unrecorded sport, including football, was being pirated connected an "industrial scale" by radical illegally streaming.
Bosses of the large rights holders, Sky and DAZN, person antecedently warned piracy is causing a financial situation successful the broadcast industry, external.
The expanding outgo of rights deals results successful higher prices for fans astatine home, particularly if they take to wage for aggregate services to ticker their squad play.
In April, Sky said Rory McIlroy's triumph astatine the Masters was the most-watched time successful Sky Sports history, with a grounds highest assemblage of 1.85 cardinal viewers - 37% of full TV viewership.
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