The Gardeners' World Blog

A number of people have asked how Premier League football coverage is divided among the broadcasters. Until this season, any part of any Premier League match you saw anywhere in the world would have been covered either by the BBC or Sky or, between 2001 and 2004, by ITV or Sky. Now the pictures all come from one of three sources: the BBC, Sky or Setanta.

This is how it works: on Premier League weekends, Sky pick two or three live games which are moved to Saturday lunchtime, Sunday at 4pm and, most weekends, to an early afternoon slot on Sunday. Setanta move a live game to Saturday teatime, and on some weekends another to Monday evening, or, as in the case of Boro v Newcastle last weekend, to a Sunday early afternoon slot.