No TV coverage bias in new Premier League season

By Ameenu Shardow

All Premier League clubs would be entitled to equal television coverage this season, the Premier League Board has resolved.

This was made known to club representatives at a meeting on Tuesday to discuss plans and innovations of the PLB for the 2011/2012 league campaign.

The new TV policy thus means the equal sharing of TV rights money would be maintained.

Rights holder OMP had earlier proposed the adoption of the English Premier League module where half the total amount is distributed equally amongs the clubs and the other half shared according to number of appearances made on TV.

This suggestion however faced stiff opposition especially from the smaller clubs who believed the initiative would be more beneficial to the bigger clubs who command a lot of media coverage.

The meeting was also used by the PLB to hammer home an earlier directive to the clubs to furnish its Secretariate with their detailed accounts and player medical records.

Failure to honour these directives before its deadline date will attract the ultimate punishment of point deduction according to Premier League rules, on the PLB have indicated their readiness to met out to culpable clubs with devastating effect.

Below is the full list of matches to be televised in the upcoming league season

Below is the full list of matched to be televised in the first round of the upcoming league.