United Kingdom

UK free-to-air DTT channel Quest has relaunched ahead of the start of its new rights deal with the English Football League, which operates the three divisions below the top-tier Premier League

Welsh public-service channel S4C has sealed a three-season extension to its rights deal with the Pro14 cross-border rugby union competition

The English Premier League has been granted an order by the UK’s High Court that will allow it to disrupt and block illegal streams of its football matches for the duration of the 2018-19 season.

The Elite Ice Hockey League, the sport’s top division in the UK, has sealed a rights deal with domestic free-to-air television channel FreeSports.

English Premier League football club Manchester United has widened the reach of its in-house television channel, MUTV, by making it available on four new platforms

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired exclusive rights to the 2018 PGA Championship, with the US golf major to serve as its launch event in the UK and Ireland

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has extended its rights deal in the UK and Ireland with BT Sport, stating that the pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of the sport can act as an inspiration t…

The success of Eleven Sports’ soon-to-launch UK and Ireland operation – in partnership with the IMG agency – will depend on the broadcaster’s ability to negotiate fruitful carriage deals with operators that did not bid aggressively for the properties Eleven will base its channels upon.

Fight Network, the multi-platform channel dedicated to combat sports, has launched on a free-to-air basis in the UK

UK production company Sunset+Vine has signed a three-year extension to its host broadcast contract for the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has further bolstered its content portfolio ahead of its impending launch in the UK and Ireland by acquiring rights to three football leagues

Rights deals for the 2018 edition of the International Champions Cup pre-season football tournament have been agreed in the UK and Ireland, Italy and Canada

Eleven Sports has acquired rights for Italian Serie A top-tier football in the UK and Ireland and confirmed that the IMG agency will hold a minority stake in the two new channels that will show the coverage

Sky Sports Racing, which is set to become the new identity for pay-television channel At The Races, has today (Tuesday) signed a rights deal with Ascot Racecourse, replacing rival Racing UK as the pay-television partner for the leading British venue.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights in the UK and Ireland to cricket’s Caribbean Premier League.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 18th and Sunday 24th June, along with May's leading audiences on free-to-air television and on the Freesports channel. Watching Brief Vol. 216