Sky's Premier League Viewing Figures Drop 10%

Premier League tv viewing figures connected Sky Sports were down 10% past season, pinch nan deficiency of jeopardy successful nan title title and relegation believed to beryllium down nan reduction.

It showed 128 games past season, while 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 hit Arsenal to nan title - nan second connected nan last day.

Liverpool wrapped up nan title connected 27 April this season, while Ipswich Town followed Southampton and Leicester City successful being relegated to nan Championship nan time before.

While Sky says numbers tracked intimately pinch nan 2023-24 season, location was a driblet disconnected complete nan last six weeks of nan campaign.

That has been blamed connected nan title title being settled early and nary compelling relegation communicative astatine nan different extremity of nan 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 pinch audiences offered much options.

Next play will spot moreover much unrecorded Premier League matches connected TV when a caller grounds £6.7bn home broadcast woody starts.

Sky will show astatine slightest 215 top-flight games live, up from 128, including each games moved to Sundays because of clubs' engagement successful European competitions.

TNT Sports will clasp its 52 games, including nan Saturday 12:30 kick-offs and 2 midweek rounds, but location will beryllium nary Amazon Prime sum for nan first clip successful six years.

A study past period said unrecorded sport, including football, was being pirated connected an "industrial scale" by group illegally streaming.

Bosses of nan awesome authorities holders, Sky and DAZN, person antecedently warned piracy is causing a financial situation successful nan broadcast industry, external.

The expanding costs of authorities deals results successful higher prices for fans astatine home, particularly if they take to salary for aggregate services to watch their squad play.

In April, Sky said Rory McIlroy's triumph astatine nan Masters was nan most-watched time successful Sky Sports history, pinch a grounds highest assemblage of 1.85 cardinal viewers - 37% of full TV viewership.