More than 50% of UK football fans used ‘second screen’ while watching Euro 2012
More than half of UK football fans used another digital device while watching the Uefa Euro 2012 national team football tournament on television, according to a study from research company IAB UK commissioned…
Russian Premier League to launch own channel
Russian football’s Premier League will launch a new domestic pay-television channel to show its matches from the 2012-13 season onwards.
Champions League and Europa League deals agreed in Oceania
Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed deals in Oceania with commercial broadcaster SBS and pay-television broadcaster Setanta, for the Champions League and Europa League from 2012-13 to 2…
Lega enjoys 65% increase in Coppa rights value on the back of strong ratings
A boom in viewing figures in this year’s Coppa Italia helped the Italian football league, Lega Serie A, to an increase of about 65 per cent in the value of the media rights to the cup competition for t…
Sunset and Vine, Global win Glasgow 2014 host broadcaster contract
Production companies Sunset+Vine and Global Television have secured a deal to jointly serve as the host broadcaster for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
Subscriptions surge to help reduce Zee’s sports losses
Indian pay-television operator Zee expects to halve its sports division’s operating losses in the 2012-13 financial year due to a significant rise in subscription revenues, according to the Indian Television w…
Frykberg installed as Fox Sports acquisitions chief
Jarrod Frykberg has been appointed as the new director of acquisitions at Australian pay-television sports broadcaster Fox Sports
BBC renews ATP World Tour Finals rights
UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights for ATP World Tour Finals tennis for a further two years, from 2012 to 2013
French beIN Sport claims ‘several hundred thousand’ subscribers
Al Jazeera’s beIN Sport French pay-television sports service, which launched last month, already has “several hundred thousand” customers, according to Charles Biétry, beIN Sport’s vice-president.
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Football League in talks about extra Asian TV exposure for Cardiff City
The English Football League is in talks with its international broadcast partners about the possibility of showing extra Cardiff City matches in Asia in the next rights cycle, from 2012-13 to 2016-17