Premier Sports will screen live and exclusive coverage of Celtic’s pre-season match against Cork City on July 8th. Brendan Rodgers’ Scottish Premiership Champions will take on three-times Premier Division winners Cork City at the SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in a one-off event dubbed the Cork Super Cup. Match commentary will be provided by Rory Hamilton […]
ITV, in partnership with Guinness, is bringing live audio description commentary to its coverage of matches during UEFA Women’s Euro 2025. The descriptive commentary aims to bring to life TV pictures for a blind and partially sighted audience, giving a level of visual detail of the action and the surrounding stadium atmosphere beyond the standard […]
Following a July 1st meeting, the Presidents of League 1 clubs, the LFP Media Supervisory Committee and the LFP Board of Directors officially announced their long rumoured, strategic project: the creation of a TV and digital platform entirely dedicated to the McDonald’s League 1, managed and led by LFP Media. The platform will become the […]
Canal+ will not distribute Ligue 1’s new in-house direct-to-consumer service after turning down a proposed deal, Canal+ President Maxime Saada has confirmed in an interview with French daily L’Équipe. France’s top-flight football league is prepping to stream games on its own streaming service in the new season after the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) prematurely ended […]
Danish football club Brøndby IF and Pluto TV have announced a partnership that will see the free streaming platform create and distribute content to the club’s fans. As a key element of the collaboration, a dedicated Brøndby IF channel has now launch on Pluto TV. The channel offers content around the clock, and there is […]
Movistar Plus+ will continue to be the home of the Spanish Football Super Cup in Spain after extending its exclusive agreement with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the next three years (2025-28). This renewal reinforces the collaboration between the RFEF and Movistar Plus+ in this competition that, since 2020, has been held under […]
The SPFL has agreed changes to its long-term broadcast deals with Premier Sports and Sky Sports to allow two post-split bottom six matches to be shown live on Premier Sports from season 2025/26. The SPFL and Premier Sports signed a five-season contract in 2024 for the broadcaster to show 20 live William Hill Premiership matches […]
LALIGA Extratime, La Liga’s own annual sports industry event, took place at The Meliá Kuala Lumpur hotel last week. La Liga CEO, Javier Tebas, opened the event with a speech that emphasised the importance of the fight against audiovisual fraud. Piracy causes global losses in terms of new revenues of more than 28 billion dollars […]
The Women’s Cup has announced that VIZIO WatchFree+ will once again be the exclusive US destination to watch their Global Series Summer 2025 live matches. The 2024 tournament marked the first ever live sporting events hosted exclusively on WatchFree+ and this year the partnership returns with new international locations. The Women’s Cup, a women’s professional […]
Goalhanger, the podcast production company, has appointed Conrad Withey as the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer with immediate effect. In this role, Withey will oversee commercial strategy, lead the revenue team, and drive cross-platform expansion. Reporting to Co-Founders Tony Pastor and Jack Davenport, he will work with the board and senior leadership to scale advertising […]