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BBC Bosses Not Backing Down Over Scottish Professional Football League Contract Row

The ongoing funding row between the Scottish Professional Football League hierarchy and the BBC "deepened last night" when BBC Sport Dir Barbara Slater "told the league to forget about trying to squeeze a bigger share out of the contract which the public service broadcaster has to screen Scottish domestic matches," according to the HERALD SCOTLAND. SPFL CEO Neil Doncaster said "only last month that the consensus among the SPFL board was that the BBC was selling the Scottish game short when it comes to the deal, now in its final year," by which the BBC currently pays around £1M ($1.5M) for the right to screen a domestic highlights package on Sunday nights, in comparison to the £68M ($104M) annually which goes to Match of the Day south of the border. While senior sources in the Scottish league "feel the broadcaster should be obliged to pay at least the equivalent per head of population north of the border," which could see the Scottish game earn closer to £7M ($10.7M) out of the deal, Slater defended the corporation's position and said that "paying any more just didn't represent value." Slater: "That is just the law of the market. As you can imagine, it is absolutely the right thing for us to do, as a license fee funded organization, to get the best possible value rights that we can. There is a market, and it is not the BBC which dictates that." These are challenging times for the public service broadcaster, "with pressure building on the licence fee and many commercial rivals keen to take over their portfolio." Slater admitted that "the broadcaster must be increasingly resourceful." Slater: "The BBC is is not immune from cutbacks and budgetary restraints" (HERALD SCOTLAND, 11/4).

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