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Football

Sky corporate affairs director Graham McWilliam has defended the UK pay-television broadcaster’s decision to pay a significant increase in its rights fee for live domestic coverage of football’s English Premier League.

Football

It is not yet clear whether Sky’s 83-per-cent increase in spending on Premier League rights was down to a blockbuster first-round bid to see off BT, a second-round reaction to aggressive BT bidding, or a combination of both.

Football

Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch has said that the UK pay-television broadcaster has a “clear plan” to accommodate the cost of its new English Premier League domestic live rights deal, as the company’s share price took a significant hit today (Wednesday).

Football

The UK pay-television market delivered another sensational boost to English Premier League revenues yesterday with new live domestic media rights deals worth £5.136bn ($7.8bn/€6.9bn) over the three seasons from 2016-17 to 2018-19.

Basketball

The National Basketball Association secured a decent rights-fee increase in its extension with UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport earlier this month.

American Football

BT Sport and sports broadcaster ESPN have signed a seven-year agreement to expand the range of ESPN content available on the platforms of the UK pay-television broadcaster.

The World Rally Championship has agreed new rights deals in the UK and Poland ahead of the start of the 2015 season of the motor racing series tomorrow (Thursday).

Even in a tournament in which the England national team disappointed, football matches from the Fifa World Cup dominated the top UK television audiences last year
Basketball

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has announced a multi-year expansion of its partnership with North American basketball league the NBA.

Squash

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a multi-year broadcast and marketing partnership with the Professional Squash Association.

Football

UK media regulator Ofcom has said Sky’s dominance of the UK pay-television sports rights market could harm competition, but stated it is “less clear” that an obligation to share content with other broadcasters should be extended to its rival, telecommunications company BT.

Football

Telecommunications and pay-television operator BT has confirmed that it will be able to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 on its YouView boxes from today (Tuesday).

Darts

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired live rights to the 2015 edition of the British Darts Organisation’s World Professional Darts Championship.

Squash

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights for the 2014 edition of the British Squash Grand Prix.

Golf

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A) could be forced to sell at least some of the rights to the British Open to pay-television if it is to increase the media rights value of the competition.

Motorsport

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in Europe’s five largest markets for motorcycling’s MotoGP world championship

Football

UK telecommunications company BT will produce the BT Sport pay-television channel’s coverage of the Uefa Champions League club football tournament in-house, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB must offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to rival telecommunications platform BT, according to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.