Clubs will also be able to stream midweek games that aren't on Sky.
£120m deal per season compared to the current one worth £88.3m.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41239042Sky will be able to stream midweek Championship matches after agreeing a new £600m five-year domestic rights deal with the English Football League.All EFL clubs will be able to stream midweek league games via their websites if Sky are not broadcasting it live.
The contract will run from 2019-2024, with the value of the rights increasing by 36% from the present agreement.
Sky will also continue to broadcast the Carabao Cup, Checkatrade Trophy and play-offs until May 2024.
Matches played between 14:45 BST and 17:15 BST will continue to be blocked from live streaming.
From next season, Sky will be able to offer an interactive service for all midweek Championship fixtures.
"These negotiations came at what was an incredibly challenging period in the sale and acquisition of sports rights in the UK," said EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey.
"Having fully tested the market, we believe that not only has a significant increase in value for our clubs been achieved, but also the very best deal, with the best partner has been delivered."
The existing EFL television deal runs out at the end of the 2018-19 campaign and is worth £88.3m per season - a figure that will rise to £120m under the new terms.
A maximum of 150 EFL games will be shown per season, including 16 midweek Championship matches and a minimum of 20 League One and League Two games.
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Can see Football Grounds get emptier and emptier as more and more of this happens!!
Good for Millsmall, Palace and QPR though
Football league clubs share £600million
I thought BT Sport would bid?.
The latest Premier League games I've seen on TV are as below and NONE of them are better than what you get to see in the Championship or League One (even League Two) at times yet SKY and the Media try to make us to believe every game is brilliant than anything that the Football League can throw up when it isnt.
West Brom v Stoke | Burnley v Palace | Swansea v Newcastle | West Ham v Huddersfield
Have seen some great Championship games on the TV this season and for watching Football in general am glad the TV Companies are putting their money into the additional Leagues, just wish the clubs would lower their ticket prices in respect of this rather than up!!
Watched the Rotherham game on iFollow and although it was great watching the match (and is something I'll continue doing throughout the season for away matches because I cant afford to attend) yet without any match commentary I missed the interaction that I have with the people that sit around me that I've got to know over the years of going.
No match on TV / the Internet can ever replicate that
In reality the infrastructure needed to transmit all the football league games means that there is not much competition anyway.
The deal, which runs from the start of next season until May 2024, is a 35% increase on the previous contract.
But a number of the Championship's larger clubs feel it undervalues how much the rights are worth and will meet on Tuesday to discuss their next move.
One senior club executive told BBC Sport: "The EFL has just started a war."
The broadcaster will show 138 league matches a season as well as every play-off game and the Carabao Cup final.
They will also show 14 ties from the earlier rounds of the Carabao Cup and the semi-finals and final of the Checkatrade Trophy.
The list of Championship fixtures to be broadcast will include 16 on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with an additional eight to be broadcast simultaneously.
Sky have the option to increase the number of matches to 158 in the final two years of the agreement - these games can only be taken from weekend games.
It is understood that Derby County, Leeds United and Aston Villa are among the clubs opposed to the new contract.
Leeds chairman Andrea Radrizzani, who also owns broadcaster ElevenSports, has previously criticised the current deal, saying clubs are not getting enough money for games which are shown on live television.
BBC Sport understands that the nine-member EFL Board unanimously agreed to the deal, including representatives of three Championship clubs, Reading, Brentford and Bristol City.
The deal covers the Championship, League One and League Two, with the money split between all 72 clubs depending on which division they are in.
Not surprised that Leeds aren't happy, given that of the 138 live games, they're probably involved in 15% of them!
I do agree with them on the amount and have said on here before that the Championship is really under sold and offers much more competitive and interesting games than the Premiership in my opinion.
However, this cutting edge could soon be lost if the so called bigger clubs gain yet another advantage by way of more TV money. Clubs already have to compete against clubs with parachute payments, and bigger clubs will have larger gate money and sponsorship deals.
I would like to go further than just an equal share. Exclude clubs receiving parachute payments. You can’t benefit from two TV deals at the same time!
I would also give extra payments to promoted clubs for the first two years.
I won’t hold my breath.
Just looking at the headline figure for these rights and declaring that the big Championship clubs are undervalued is daft as no rational broadcaster would ever use the EFL rights as a loss leader (the last broadcaster to try it was ITV Digital which ended rather badly).
Sky and the various Murdoch outlets have worked hard to create an 'ecosystem' for Premiere League football, where betting and Fantasy Football, plus podcasts and press/ magazines etc. get people to care about Bournemouth vs West Ham. That ain't going to happen for the EFL. Only the fans care about Birmingham vs Reading, so viewing figures are going to be in the 100ks. There's barely any sponsorship or advertising revenue to pick from there.
Really interested in the online mid-week stuff. As someone who lives an hour away from Charlton, I would, to my shame, almost definitely choose to watch at home on a Tuesday night than leave work early, get on the M25 in the dark and the rain and trudge to the match from a parking spot two miles away.