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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky will offer a free Sky Sports Day Pass for its online streaming service Now TV to coincide with the opening day of the 2015 Ashes cricket series between England and Australia.

Boxing promoter Matchroom Sport is thought to have secured a small increase in the value of its rights in last week’s renewal with UK pay-television broadcaster Sky.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence examines television audiences in the UK for the 2014-15 English Premier League season

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has renewed a rights deal with Matchroom Sport for the management company’s stable of boxers.

Justice Barling, chairman of a tribunal set up to consider whether UK pay-television broadcaster Sky should have to offer its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels to rival telecommunications company BT, has agreed to step down from the role, according to the Guardian newspaper.

UK pay-television operator Virgin Media has continued its war of words with pay-television broadcaster Sky by suggesting its latest set of price rises are more representative of the costs incurred through the new rights deal for football’s English Premier League.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights to the May 30 boxing card headlined by Kell Brook’s defence of his IBF welterweight belt against Frankie Gavin.

UK and Ireland pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired exclusive live rights to Ireland’s Rugby World Cup warm-up matches against Scotland and Wales, according to multiple reports in the Irish media.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky this month tendered rights to England autumn internationals outside the UK, TV Sports Markets understands.

Sky this week acquired the UK rights to the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, beating competition from pay-television boxing channel BoxNation.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired exclusive rights for the highly anticipated welterweight world championship unification boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao on May 2.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky will increase the price of its sports package to £47 (€64.40/$72.40) per month from June.

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport is thought to be paying a strong rights fee for Major League Soccer rights across Europe, excluding the UK, in its four-year deal agreed last week.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and public-service broadcaster the BBC have invited the four candidates for the presidency of Fifa, world football’s governing body, to a live televised debate.

Irish telecommunications company Eircom has struck a deal with UK pay-television broadcaster Sky to expand its carriage of the Sky Sports channels.

The English Football League last week earned a decent increase in the value of its media rights from incumbent rights-holder Sky in a one-year extension last week.