How Does the Championship Compare to the EPL?

Did you know that in the United King­dom, Sky Sports pays $74 mil­lion a sea­son for the TV rights to the Foot­ball League, which includes the Cham­pi­onship, the lower leagues and 15 matches per sea­son from the League Cup?

Com­par­ing the Cham­pi­onship to the Pre­mier League, the Cham­pi­onship fee is six per cent of the value of the Prmier League live rights. Last sea­son, 60 Cham­pi­onship matches drew audi­ences on aver­age a third of the size of Pre­mier League audi­ences — so the Cham­pi­onship was get­ting approx­i­mately 350,000–400,000 view­ers per match, which is com­pa­ra­ble to how many fans in Amer­ica watch the Pre­mier League on Fox Soc­cer Chan­nel accord­ing to con­ser­v­a­tive estimates.