BT Sport will premiere The Boot Room Boys, the latest documentary from the BT Sport Films series, on BT Sport 3 on April 5th. Bill Shankly’s arrival as manager in December 1959 was the catalyst for establishing a legendary lineage of Liverpool coaches and managers: Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Ronnie Moran, Kenny Dalglish, Roy Evans: […]
The Premier League has extended its coverage in the India with a renewal of its media rights arrangement with Star India. As a result of the contract extension between the English top-flight football league and the India-facing subsidiary of the The Walt Disney Corporation, Star India will continue to broadcast Premier League matches until 2025. […]
The Premier League has suspended a deal with its Russian broadcast partner to air football matches in the country. The agreement, made with Rambler (Okko Sport), takes place with immediate effect. In a statement the Premier League said: “The League strongly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We call for peace and our thoughts are with […]
The Carabao Cup final on February 28th saw the highest in-home peak and average viewing figures on record for a League Cup Final on Sky Sports. The match averaged 3.16 million viewers and peaked at over 4 million – the highest in-home peak for any match since the Premier League clash between Liverpool and Manchester […]
StarHub has acquired the Premier League rights in Singapore for the next six years. StarHub will be rolling out access to all customers, and says it will be making matches “more accessible and affordable to Singaporeans”, across StarHub TV+, mobile and broadband offerings. Full pricing details will be announced in June. StarHub will offer all […]
Now TV, the media entertainment arm of HKT, has secured the exclusive broadcast rights for Premier League football on pay-TV for the seasons 2022/23 to 2024/25 in Hong Kong, making it the city’s Premier League broadcaster for 12 consecutive years. Now TV will continue to deliver live coverage of all 380 matches for every season, […]
Disney-owned ESPN has retained the Premier League TV rights in South America after agreeing a new three-year deal, from 2022 to 2025. The value of the deal is reportedly £250 million (€219.4m) across the three years, representing a 35 per cent increase, and covers Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. […]
Paramount+ is the new home of the Premier League in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as the ViacomCBS brand adds live sports to its content portfolio in these regions. The three-year deal with the Premier League also includes rights on a non-exclusive basis in Belize and the Dominican Republic. Paramount+ subscribers […]
In Q3 2019, research firm Ampere reported that the reach of live English Premier League (EPL) coverage had increased to nearly three-quarters of domestic fans as Amazon Prime Video acquired rights to 24 matches per season. Two years later, those with access to live coverage at home has increased from 72 per cent of UK […]
An average of 1.2 million viewers tuned into Sky Sports channels throughout the day on October 24th with a reach of over 8 million, delivering a record-breaking day for the pay-TV channel. Numbers peaked at 4.5 million viewers at 5:50pm headlined by the Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool and the ICC Men’s […]