Distribution key for money out of new TV-deal has been defined

The newly signed TV-deal with broadcaster UPC, effective as of the upcoming season until 2022, will bring the Swiss Ice Hockey a total revenue of almost CHF 155 million or about CHF 31 million on average per year.

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As already revealed by Klaus Zaugg on Watson last week, the SIHF has worked out a plan how this additional revenue from the TV rights deal should be distributed between the Federation and the National League teams. The representantives of the NL-teams were called upon to approve this distribution plan in the extraordinary assembly on January 18.

According to this plan, the agency "Profile Partners" will receive a commission of 12.5% (this year CHF 3,8 million, 22 million in total) for working out this deal, whereas the rest of almost CHF 155 million is planned to be distributed as following: in the 2017-18 season, a total of CHF 26.6 million will be paid out to the National League clubs. This amount will then be increased yearly until the maximum has been reached in the 2021-22 season.

For the upcoming 2017-18 season, as confirmed by the SIHF, each NLA club will thus receive CHF 1.655 million (almost CHF 1 million more than today), whereas the NLB clubs will get CHF 230,000.- each instead of the current CHF 107,000.-.

Moreover, the SIHF plans to invest a total of CHF 1.5 million per year in the youth development, CHF 300,000.- for women's and amateur hockey, CHF 2,200,000.- for their 'Talentlabel', and CHF 3,265.000.- for all youth national teams.

Der Verteilschlüssel für die TV-Gelder ist definiert: https://t.co/z3uiTI3gzi — Swiss Ice Hockey (@SwissIceHockey) January 18, 2017

Last Update: 18 January 2017, 05:57 PM | rlu/mso