United Kingdom

Football

E-commerce and media company Amazon is interested in acquiring a ‘super pack’ of rights to club football competition the English Premier League, according to the Digiday website.

Football

Soccer United Marketing, the media and marketing arm of North America’s Major League Soccer, has entered into a strategic partnership with London-based digital media company Copa90.

Football

English Premier League football club Manchester United has launched an official channel on YouTube, breaking a cycle where it was the most-viewed club on the video-sharing platform purely through unofficial content.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 5th and Sunday 11th February. This week we also include leading audiences in January on Eurosport and across pay-television.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has signed a three-year extension to its rights deal with the MotoGP motorcycling series.

Table Tennis

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has confirmed it will show live coverage of the International Table Tennis Federation Team World Cup.

Football

The Premier League, the top division of English club football, could merge its two remaining domestic rights packages into a ‘super pack’, according to multiple reports.

Football

After successive 70-per-cent rises in the last two cycles there were only two sets of circumstances in which the Premier League was likely to secure another increase in the value of its domestic live rights.

Rugby League

Toronto Wolfpack, the world’s first transatlantic rugby league club, has launched an OTT platform that will grant fans outside of Canada and the UK live and on-demand access to its games.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has retained the bulk of live domestic rights to the English Premier League, with the award of contracts signifying a reversal in the trend of sky-rocketing fees from recent tenders, albeit with two packages left on the table.

Football

UK DTT channel Quest has dislodged commercial broadcaster Channel Five as the free-to-air highlights rights-holder for the English Football League, which operates the three divisions of football below the top-tier Premier League, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has held “extremely positive” talks to extend its rights deal with the Scottish Professional Football League, according to the Daily Express.

Multi-sport

UK production company Imagen has enhanced its video management platform by adding live capture and social media publishing capabilities to the service.

Football

Broadcasters and media companies have today (Friday) entered their initial offers for rights to the Premier League, the top division of English club football.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 22nd and Sunday 28th January. We also look at English Football League audiences for the season to date. P
Motorsport

UK pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has agreed a five-year extension to its rights deal with North American stock car-racing series, Nascar.

Rugby League

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has agreed a five-year deal with the National Rugby League to return the top division of the sport in Australia to its screens for the first time in over a decade.

Badminton

The BBC has struck a deal to show coverage of the All England Open Badminton Championships next month.