This weekend Premier Sports will broadcast the first of 20 live and exclusive matches from the Scottish Premiership this season. It marks the start of a five season deal with the SPFL to screen matches from the country’s top men’s league. Tony Docherty’s Dundee side will welcome Steven Naismith’s Hearts team to the Scot Foam […]
Two sisters aiming to strike a deal to host a charity football match with big name stars from the Wales Euro 2016 squad, amateur darts players competing in a local pub league, and a GP who communicates with seals all feature in the new Our Lives season. Following the success of past seasons, Our Lives […]
BBC Scotland will have full live television coverage of the second leg of Rangers’ tie against Dynamo Kyiv in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. The broadcaster will show the match on August 13th on the BBC Scotland channel and on iPlayer as Rangers set their sights on progressing to the play-off stage. […]
Premier Sports has announced it will show an extra 25 group stage matches from the Premier Sports Cup from the start of the new season. The extra games will be streamed live on the Premier Sports streaming service, which costs £15.99 per month in the UK and forms part of a new three-year agreement between […]
BBC Scotland will have full live television coverage of the South American matches from Scotland’s Skyscanner Americas Tour this July. The games against Chile and Uruguay will be shown live free-to-air on the BBC Scotland channel as part of an agreement between Scottish Rugby and TNT Sports. Scotland return to Chile to play at Estadio […]
Scotland’s cruel 1-0 defeat to Hungary attracted over half of the nation’s TV viewers on the evening of June 23rd. A peak audience of 10 million people watched the BBC’s coverage of Scotland vs Hungary on BBC One. The match was also streamed 3.4 million times across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app […]
Scotland vs Switzerland drew in more than half the nation’s TV viewers on June 19th. The BBC had a 54 per cent audience share for coverage of Scotland vs Switzerland on BBC One, with a peak audience of 9.4 million people. The match was also streamed 3.6 million times on BBC iPlayer and there was […]
More than 10 million viewers watched ITV’s coverage of Euro 2024 opening match between Germany and Scotland on June 14th – the highest peak audience of any opening to a major football tournament in a decade. On ITV1 and ITVX the match peaked with 10.4 million, with an average of 9.1 million watching the match […]
BBC Scotland’s live coverage of William Hill Championship football matches reaches audience of over 800,000 in season 2023/24. Scotland’s second tier, which was recently won by Dundee United, also enjoyed an average weekly reach of 190,000 for Friday night matches on the channel during the season. Audience figures show live William Hill Championship matches reached […]
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has announced a sponsorship deal with betting company William Hill. Under the five-year deal, which begins at the start of season 2024/25, William Hill will become the title sponsor of all four SPFL divisions as well as the Official Betting Partner of the SPFL. This will see the four […]