sky is to increase its prices for sports and family entertainment packages in britain, just six weeks after it agreed to pay a record fee for the rights to show premier league football matches sky, which normally increases its prices in september, said on thursday the price of a sports tv package would rise by £1 to £47 a month it reflects the balancing act it is attempting after agreeing to pay £42billion to show 126 live premier league matches a season from 2016 to 2019, fending off fierce rival bt sky said upon the announcement of the record premier league deal that it would try to make sure its customers would not have to foot the bill as of june, it will cost £47 a month to watch sky sports pundits such as thierry henry (centre) sky will no longer have rights to broadcast champions league games from next season  sky paid £42billion to broadcast 126 live games a season from 2016 to 2019 in the premier league  'the company will work hard to minimise the impact of higher rights costs on customers, with the majority of the funding coming through substantial additional savings to be delivered by efficiency plans,’ a sky spokesman said upon the announcement of the rights in february sky's family bundle, which includes its highest profile shows and box sets of drama, would rise by £3  a month to £36 analysts said the lower price rise for sports channels might reflect a concern within the company that viewers could defect to bt, which won the right to show 42 games a season and has also beaten sky to show champions league matches from later this year the price increases will take effect in june analysts at citi said this was prudent as the previous timetable would have resulted in sky trying to increase prices just as the champions league matches disappeared from its channels sky suggested its customers would not have to foot the bill for the record premier league tv deal  graphic charts the significant rise of domestic premier league tv revenue  seven packages were available in the auction, five with 28 games per season and two with 14 games per season the packages sky won  package a comprises 28 games on saturday lunchtimes (1230pm) package c has 28 games kicking off between 130pm and 215pm on sundays pack a has 6 'first pick' games from 38 rounds and b has 9 first picks package d is the 4pm sunday bundle of 28 games   crucially with 18 'first pick' games package e is the 'monday night football' (8pm) bundle, with 18 games on mondays plus 10 on fridays; this is the first time premier league games will be shown live on friday evenings there are no first picks in this package package g is a bundle of 14 games on bank holidays and other sunday matches with two first picks the packages bt sport won  package b has 28 games at tea time on saturdays (530pm) packages f has 14 games, a mix of midweek and saturday games including three first picks under the current ongoing deals sky have paid £228bn over three years from 2013 16 for 116 games per season, or in other words, get 348 games at £6,551,724 each bt have paid £738m over three years from 2013 16 for 38 games per season, or in other words, get 114 games at £6,473,684 each 50 per cent of the revenue is divided equally between the clubs  25 per cent is awarded on a merit basis, determined by final league positions  25 per cent is distributed as a facilities fee for televised matches  nick harris  sky may also have been encouraged to move ahead with price rises now after recent quarterly results showed the number of people leaving the platform had reduced 'the experience of canal+ in france suggests losing rights does not impact subscriber volumes, but does impair pricing power,' citi said the analysts said the price rises could result in an around 10 percent increase to earnings per share shares in sky, which has recently expanded into germany, italy and austria, were up 14 percent, outperforming the ftse 100 index which was up 04 percent
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sky announced thursday its sports tv package fee will rise to £47 . sky usually reveals its price increases in september . it agreed to pay £42billion for live premier league games  last month 