Unsurprisingly 'Mr Unreliable' Charles Sale/the DM have changed the value of the deal to £80m.Still a big deal for a lot of overnight rights but £350 mould be ridiculous. It is a shame as now cricket fans are going to be forking out twice.As for the coverage will BT go all out and put together a full team or just top and tail Channel 9's coverage?If they start to put together a full team then clearly they are going to be going for the ECB contract.
Sky might well be on the phone to Lords offering to extend their deal early like they have done for other contracts when they want to freeze out BT
2005 Ashes, attracted 8million viewers, since it went behind the paywall, its not got above 1.2million, it dont pay SKY shareholders to have it.