Jeff Stelling, the legendary host of Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday, will continue to host the award-winning show. Stelling announced his decision to step down in October 2021 after 30 years at Sky. However, following discussions with Sky Sports, he has decided to stay on as host of Soccer Saturday for at least the 2022/23 season. […]
Streaming services will be responsible for one-fifth of all sports rights spend this year across Europe’s largest markets according to Ampere Analysis research, covering nearly 1,300 rights deals. In the big five European markets –UK, Italy, Germany, France, and Spain – Ampere expects OTT platforms to account for 20 per cent of all spend on […]
The involvement of tech giants in the sports broadcasting market has never been this much a reality, reports Dataxis. Until now, only Amazon had been investing in premium sports properties, be it in the US or in Western European markets, while YouTube has rather turned to be a flexible and complementary offer to traditional broadcasters’ […]
Monterosa has raised £3.5m (€4.2m) of growth capital to accelerate development of its real-time engagement (RTE) platform and drive the company’s expansion into new global markets. The funding was led by 24Haymarket and included existing investor ACF Investors, plus a trio of new investors including Jeremy Darroch, former CEO and Executive Chair at Sky, Chris […]
BT Sport will premiere The Boot Room Boys, the latest documentary from the BT Sport Films series, on BT Sport 3 on April 5th. Bill Shankly’s arrival as manager in December 1959 was the catalyst for establishing a legendary lineage of Liverpool coaches and managers: Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Ronnie Moran, Kenny Dalglish, Roy Evans: […]
Ateme, a specialist in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, announces it has enabled 4K UHD live streaming with Dolby Audio for Mola TV, the Indonesian subscription video-on-demand and over-the-top streaming service. In the very first deployment of its type, English Premier League (EPL) football matches with high-quality video and […]
Beth Rigby will interview footballer and businessman Gary Neville tonight (March 17th) at 9pm on Sky News for the second episode of her new show Beth Rigby Interviews. Former England and Manchester United defender, now famed for his straight-talking punditry, will discuss leadership, his political ambitions and share his views on the big social and […]
Viaplay and Tele2 have agreed a multi-year strategic distribution partnership in Sweden. Viaplay will be included in all Tele2’s pay-TV packages and will also be directly available through the Tele2 Play streaming package from later this year. As part of the agreement, Viaplay Film & Series will be included in Tele2’s Standard pay-TV package; Viaplay […]
The Premier League has extended its coverage in the India with a renewal of its media rights arrangement with Star India. As a result of the contract extension between the English top-flight football league and the India-facing subsidiary of the The Walt Disney Corporation, Star India will continue to broadcast Premier League matches until 2025. […]
EE and BT have unveiled new ways to watch or experience sports and the performing arts using the power of 5G technology which re-imagine the experience of watching and performing sports, dance, music and theatre through virtual, augmented and mixed reality applications. Using everyday devices such as smartphones, tablets and TVs, as well as the […]