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Research: Brits spend £300 a year on subscription services

With the average Brit spending 3 hours and 37 minutes online every day, and an average of 1 hour 21 minutes a day watching online services such as Netflix, research by comparethemarket reveals UK households spend nearly £300 (€360.56) every year on online subscriptions. One in 12 people spend more on subscriptions each month than […]

March 8, 2022

Sky receives 10 noms for RTS Programme Awards 2022

Sky has received 10 nominations for the 2022 Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards, with nods for comedy, drama, arts, documentary and sports. The nominations are: Scripted Comedy Bloods. BAFTA-nominated Samson Kayo and Golden Globe-nominated Jane Horrocks star the Sky Original comedy series as paramedic partners in the South London ambulance service. When tough-acting loner […]

March 3, 2022

Sky Sports: Record audience for League Cup Final

The Carabao Cup final on February 28th saw the highest in-home peak and average viewing figures on record for a League Cup Final on Sky Sports. The match averaged 3.16 million viewers and peaked at over 4 million – the highest in-home peak for any match since the Premier League clash between Liverpool and Manchester […]

March 2, 2022By Nik Roseveare

beIN Sports to show Women’s FA Cup in MENA

beIN Sports will show the Vitality Women’s FA Cup for the remainder of the 2021/22 season in 24 countries across the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). The agreement with The FA will cover all remaining matches this season including live coverage of selected Quarter Finals, both Semi Finals and the showpiece final at Wembley […]

February 25, 2022

BT Sport to premiere Meatball Molly UFC doc

BT Sport will premiere Meatball Molly, the latest documentary from BT Sport Films, on BT Sport 2 on March 15th. The feature tells the incredible story of Molly McCann, from troubled beginnings on Merseyside, to becoming the first English female fighter to win in the UFC. The film examines the highs and lows of McCann’s […]

February 23, 2022

Hong Kong: Now TV extends Premier League rights

Now TV, the media entertainment arm of HKT, has secured the exclusive broadcast rights for Premier League football on pay-TV for the seasons 2022/23 to 2024/25 in Hong Kong, making it the city’s Premier League broadcaster for 12 consecutive years. Now TV will continue to deliver live coverage of all 380 matches for every season, […]

February 17, 2022

fuboTV scores Premier League rights in Canada

fuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, will be the exclusive home to the Premier League in the Canadian market for the next three seasons beginning in 2022/2023. fuboTV will exclusively carry all 380 Premier League matches each season and shoulder programming on its platform through the 2024/2025 season. All content will stream live on […]

January 14, 2022

Premier League on Paramount+ in LatAm

Paramount+ is the new home of the Premier League in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as the ViacomCBS brand adds live sports to its content portfolio in these regions. The three-year deal with the Premier League also includes rights on a non-exclusive basis in Belize and the Dominican Republic. Paramount+ subscribers […]

January 13, 2022

Nail Bar Boys to air on BBC

LA Factual, part of Liverpool’s award-winning independent film and TV company LA Productions, is bringing the larger than life characters at one of Liverpool’s busiest nail salons to the small screen. Nail Bar Boys will launch on-air on BBC One North West on November 23rd. The three-part documentary, which will air weekly, follows the lives […]

November 17, 2021

Premier League nears $2bn US TV rights deal

The Premier League is nearing the sale of its US television rights for close to $2 billion (€1.76bn), which would set a new overseas record. ViacomCBS, Disney’s ESPN, Amazon, Fox, WarnerMedia and (current holder) Comcast’s NBC are among the interested parties, with second-round bids due on November 18th, according to an FT report. Under the […]

November 16, 2021