Warner Bros Discovery and BT Group have completed their transaction to form a 50:50 Joint Venture (JV) that combines the assets of BT Sport and Eurosport UK. The move brings together an extensive line-up of live sport coverage for fans in the UK & Ireland – including the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa […]
talkSPORT, the sports radio station and global audio rights holders of the Premier League, has signed a portfolio of blue chip advertisers as sponsors of its exclusive Premier League coverage. As one of two headline partners, on-demand TV provider NOW has credits and live reads in and around all Premier League commentaries. talkSPORT will also […]
The English Premier League (EPL) is by far the most lucrative league globally. According to a Safebettingsites data presentation, the EPL generated €3.5 billion in broadcasting revenue in the 2021/22 season. This is more than Germany’s Bundesliga (€1.46 billion) and Spain’s La Liga (€2.04 billion) combined. Safebettingsite’s Edith Reads commented: “The English Premier League is […]
Sport Buff – a specialist in gamification and on-screen engagement – has attracted a further $2.5 million of global investment in its seed round of funding, following successful pre-seed funding in February 2021. Among the fresh investors in Sport Buff are Sport Republic (UK), Longboard Capital (US), Calvert Drive (NZ) and Intrepid Ventures (CY), alongside […]
The European football market as a whole saw revenues grow by 10 per cent to €27.6 billion in 2020/21 (€25.2bn in 2019/20) despite an almost complete absence of fans from stadia during the season, according to the 31st Annual Review of Football Finance from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group. The strong recovery in revenue terms of […]
StreamAMG has made two senior hires from the world of professional sport. Alex Hunte has joined as Product Director and Jonathan Rigby is now Director of Commercial Strategy. Hunte joins the business after spending more than three years at Tottenham Hotspur where he was Head of Digital Products, having previously led broadcast productions at UEFA […]
Using actual live streams of major international sporting events SSIMWAVE will show at IBC 2022 how its award-winning products can provide streaming providers with the video quality insights and competitive comparisons they need to make strategic decisions to manage and optimize subscriber satisfaction and engagement. Expanding on SSIMWAVE’s ongoing analysis of sports telecasts, the IBC […]
Fans of the Premier League’s newly-promoted teams face paying £35 (€41.85) per game to watch them play on pay-TV and streaming services this season – three times more than the biggest clubs, reveals comparison and switching service Uswitch.com. Latest research shows a quarter of Brits with a sports package feel it’s the most important part […]
Electronic Arts (EA) and Sky Media have agreed a deal that sees the video game company sponsor Sky Sports’ Premier League coverage from the start of the 2022/23 season until the end of the 2024/25 season. The three-year, multi-platform deal was brokered between Sky Media and global media network mSix&Partners. EA SPORTS FIFA – one […]
BT Sport is launching a new line-up of podcasts available for free available across popular podcast platforms. BT Sport Pods, which joins BT Sport’s line-up of non-live programming including BT Sport Films and No Filter, will initially comprise six new series – The Premier League Storybook with Jake Humphrey, The Joe Cole Cast, James Richardson’s […]