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Premier League TV Rights Deal: 7 Other Things £5.14 Billion Could Get You

Understanding The Premier League's Shockingly Expensive TV Deal In 7 Easy Slides
Asa Bennett
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A TV cameraman films as a throw in is taken during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at the Anfield stadium in Liverpool, northwest England, on February 10, 2015. England's Premier League announced February 10, 2015 a record new domestic television rights deal worth over 5 billion GBP (7.6 billion USD) after a ferocious bidding war for the 2016-2019 period. AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLISRESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, d
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£5.136bn – that’s how much Sky and rival BT paid for the rights to screen Premier League football from 2016 to 2019.

The princely sum is 70% higher than the previous deal, marking the mind-bogglingly fast rise in how lucrative football has become.

Here are 7 things that would cost just as much as the Premier League TV rights.

7 things you could buy instead of Premier League TV rights
You could be 16 times richer than the Queen...(01 of07)
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With a fortune of just £328 million, the Queen would could only afford to buy the TV rights to a mere 43 games (which would effectively cost 7.62m each). (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Benedict Cumberbatch could never be off TV...(02 of07)
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At an estimated £5 million for three 90-minute episodes of Sherlock, £5.14 billion would be enough to make 1,028 of them. (credit:Alex Huckle via Getty Images)
You could buy your own police force(s)....(03 of07)
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£5.4 billion is more than half of the Home Office's entire budget (which sank to £8.4 billion in 2014/2015). (credit:ANDREW COWIE via Getty Images)
You could build 5 new destroyers...(04 of07)
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And with each Royal Naval Destroyer costing £1 billion, you'd have money left over. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Archive)
You could get a whole lot of nurses...(05 of07)
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£5.14 billion could pay for nearly 200,000 nurses (who are normally on salaries of £26,000 each). (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
You could build at lot of new schools(06 of07)
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At a cost of around £14 million each, you could build 367 schools (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
And you could buy your own suite of TV channels(07 of07)
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With stations like Channel 5 going for £450 million, you could potentially buy 11 similarly big channels and put whatever you like on them (that's a lot of Big Brother). (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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