England

An increase in media-rights income has established the English Premier League as the dominant force in the latest instalment of the Football Money League, the annual ranking of global clubs’ turnover by business advisory company Deloitte.

The English Premier League top-tier football club competition and other sports media rights-holders have successfully forced the closure of illegal streaming website Wiziwig.

The English Football League has criticised the Premier League’s decision to broadcast live games on Friday nights from the 2016-17 season, with the slot having been traditionally reserved for lower-league football matches.

LFCTV, the official pay-television channel of Liverpool, the English top-tier football club, has returned to the Virgin Media pay-television platform today (Wednesday).

US pay-television channel GolTV has signed rights deals with Portuguese Primeira Liga football club Benfica and English Premier League club Everton.

Ofcom will be fighting a lonely battle in trying to convince the Premier League to make all of its matches available for live broadcast in the UK.

The English Premier League top-tier club football competition could begin scheduling matches on Friday nights as part of a move to generate additional revenue through rights deals, according to UK newspaper the Sunday Mirror.

English Premier League football club Liverpool has launched LFC Xtra – a new international website for English-speaking supporters.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has partnered with electronics company Samsung to provide near-live video clips of England’s autumn international rugby union matches on social networking site Twitter.

The Premier League has a “moral obligation” to provide greater funding for grassroots football from the proceeds of its domestic media-rights sales, the UK’s Labour party said this week.

Manchester City has become the first English Premier League football team to launch a dedicated matchday second screen service through its CityMatchDay app.

English Premier League football club Liverpool will alter its in-house television channel LFCTV from a free-to-air to subscription-based model when it relaunches next month.

The England & Wales Cricket Board’s member counties are applying pressure on the governing body to ensure domestic cricket appears on terrestrial television in the UK when the current rights deal with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB is renegotiated.

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has expanded the reach of its British Eurosport 2 channel by agreeing a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB to feature on its Sky Go mobile television service.

The English Premier League is considering shifting more games from the traditional Saturday 3pm kick-off slot in the next cycle of rights, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

BSkyB’s proposal to acquire pay-television broadcasters Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia has been overwhelmingly approved by the UK pay-television broadcaster’s shareholders.