IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-27427-3_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US?

In: The Comparative Economics of Sport

Author

Listed:
  • Stefan Szymanski

    (Imperial College London)

Abstract

This chapter is motivated by a simple observation: why is that in Europe most of the most valuable sports rights have migrated to pay TV while in the US the rights have remained available on free-to-air networks? In this context, “most valuable” means live rights, and in Europe the most valuable rights relate to the top national league soccer championships. In the US this typically means the major leagues. In additional the Olympic Games are highly valued by consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, while some other rights attract significant interest in specific regions (PGA Golf in the US, Tour de France in much of Europe, Test Match Cricket in England).

Suggested Citation

  • Stefan Szymanski, 2010. "Why Have Premium Sports Rights Migrated to Pay TV in Europe But Not in the US?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Comparative Economics of Sport, chapter 9, pages 262-274, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27427-3_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230274273_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Comparative Economic; Rugby League; Sport League; Premier League; Satellite Broadcasting;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27427-3_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.