UK’s BT blows away Disney’s ESPN in UK Premier League football bidding contest

Well here’s a turn-up, UK landline telephone operator BT (formerly the nationalised British Telecommunications) has outbid the mighty Disney-owned global sports channel ESPN for the rights to show roughly a third of live Premier League football games over the next three years. BSkyB’s Sky Sports keeps the majority of games, bidding £2.28bn for its games [...]