16 juill. 2009 - The SPL agreed a £16.25m per season deal with Sky and ESPN to screen 60 live Premier League games each season for the next 3 years domestically. The deal will last until the end of the 2011-12 season with the SPL having an option to extend the deal for a further 2 seasons. The league had been looking for an alternative broadcasting deal following the collapse of Setanta's UK operation. Last year Setanta agreed to pay £31.25 per season over 4 seasons to extend their deal with the SPL beyond 2010.

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"There was no alternative proposal on the table," said the St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour. "It wasn't a unanimous vote, and I'm not prepared to go in that, but it was passed and so we just have to get on with it. We are in the middle of a tough financial situation and the league starts in four weeks' time and that was the best and only deal on the table."

The Rangers chief executive, Martin Bain, said this week that he had been in discussions with Celtic about buying the broadcasting rights themselves. However, a spokesman for the SPL said: "There was no alternative proposal brought forward by the Old Firm. We needed a vote of 8–4 and while we will not go into the exact voting, there was enough to secure the approval."

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jul/16/spl-espn-sky-tv-deal