DAZN, the global sports streaming platform, is expanding its global commercial premises business into Germany. With DAZN For Business, DAZN is launching a standalone business solution, which enables restaurants, hotels, bars and hospitality businesses to offer fans live sports from DAZN – including, among others, all Bundesliga matches on Fridays and Sundays as well as […]
BT Sport is making next the Non-League Finals Day available for free, allowing football fans to watch both the FA Vase and FA Trophy finals without a subscription on May 3rd. BT Sport’s coverage will be available to watch without a subscription via btsport.com, the BT Sport App, BT TV, the Sky Digital Satellite platform, […]
StarTimes, the Chinese-owned pay-television operator in sub-Saharan Africa, is facing the threat of a winding up order after failing to pay beIN Media Group for rights to French football’s Ligue 1, according to a GlobalData report. GlobalData also says that the broadcaster, part of Hong Kong-based holding company Century Sun, has delayed payments to other […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has secured a variety of football rights for its Viaplay streaming service in the Baltic countries, including the exclusive rights to the FA Cup until 2024. NENT Group will launch Viaplay in the Baltics on March 9th. NENT Group has acquired the English Cup-tournaments (FA Cup […]
Data from Kantar Media has revealed the most tweeted about TV programme/series of 2020 overall was ITV’s Good Morning Britain (with 4,930,926 tweets) followed by Love Island (3,172,459), BBC Breakfast (1,812,446), Question Time (1,666,730) and live FA Cup football coverage (1,376,162). Love Island also topped the list of most tweeted about live broadcast shows, with […]
Global investment platform Aser Ventures has launched its new streaming platform LIVENow. LIVENow offers flexible pay-per-view access to a host of live events including sport, music, fitness and industry conferences. Content will be available through LIVENow’s D2C platform as well as through a global network of digital platforms, social channels and mobile companies. Andrea Radrizzani, […]
A record-breaking number of viewers turned to BBC iPlayer in the first half of 2020, with 3.1 billion requests to stream programmes, up by 47 per cent on the previous year. April-June also marks a new best-ever quarter for iPlayer with 1.6 billion requests, an increase of more than half (59 per cent) on the […]
Arsenal’s victory over Chelsea in the FA Cup final on August 1st was the most-watched football match of the season. BARB data shows the BBC’s coverage from Wembley Stadium was watched by a peak of 8.2 million across all platforms, a 46.1 per cent audience share. The game was also shown on BT Sport. It […]
The return of live professional football to ESPN and ESPN+ continues with exclusive US coverage of the EFL Championship starting on June 20th and the FA Cup quarter-finals, semifinals and final beginning June 27th. The final three rounds of the FA Cup feature multiple salivating matches with several top Premier League sides remaining in the […]
BT Sport will kick off its coverage of the Premier League’s return with a double header of Watford v Leicester City and Brighton v Arsenal on June 20th. The fixtures – and all subsequent matches on BT Sport – will give viewers the option to watch with (or without) a pre-recorded dynamic crowd noise feature, […]