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Premier League has no say in how pay-TV operators price broadcasts: EPL chief

Lee U-Wen

Lee U-Wen

Published Tue, Jul 14, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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THE spiralling cost of watching the English Premier League (EPL) football matches on pay-TV is something beyond the league's control, its executive chairman Richard Scudamore has said.

When prices last went up in Singapore in 2013, Singtel - the exclusive rights holders to the EPL here - raised the cost of watching the EPL from S$34.90 to S$59.90 per month; the telco's bundled packages, which included the EPL, remained at S$64.90.

Singtel reportedly spent close to S$400 million to wrest the exclusive broadcast rights to the EPL in 2010, u…

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