A new camera angle will be trialled by Sky Sports and the Premier League in Arsenal’s match against Manchester City on October 8th at The Emirates Stadium. The new camera angle, called ‘Game Mode’ aims to give viewers a greater appreciation of space by showcasing player runs and ball movement. The camera angle will track […]
The English Premier League (EPL) is to repackage its UK TV rights with plans to extend the duration of the deal to four years and remove the smaller bunldes of games (such as Amazon’s current deal) in favour of fewer, bigger packages. The UK government allowed the league and its broadcasters to roll over their […]
Sky Sports News celebrates its 25th birthday on October 2nd. To mark the occasion, the 24-hour live sports channel will be free-to-air from 7am-7pm on Sky Sports YouTube and the Sky Sports App. Sports fans across the UK will be able to watch all the news and reaction from the weekend’s sport which includes a […]
Canal+ has retained the exclusive broadcast rights to Premier League football in France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Vietnam until 2028. The France-based pay-TV broadcaster will air all 380 games per season during next rights cycle. Games in France to be shown on its linear Canal+ channels, its OTT service myCanal, and on digital channel […]
As the 2023-24 Premier League season kicks off, the realm of front-of-shirt sponsorships takes centre stage. Among the 20 teams in the league, seven have forged significant partnerships with betting brands. This trend, backed by a noteworthy investment of $71.79 million (€66.4m) and a market share of 35 per cent, underscores the dynamic intersection of […]
Sky Sports has released a new social-first docuseries called SCENES that will provide four different perspectives of a matchday experience – blending first-person storytelling with candid behind-the-scenes footage. Starting at Turf Moor where Vincent Kompany welcomed his former boss, Pep Guardiola, the YouTube series will follow a group of creators as they are sent to […]
Research from Ampere Analysis highlights the growing popularity of football in America, with nearly 20 per cent of US sports fans now claiming it is their favourite sport. Today, football (or ‘soccer’ in the US) is the fourth most popular American sport, a figure that has grown rapidly from the last quarter of 2021. The […]
TNT Sports kicks off its inaugural season of Premier League coverage on August 12th at the Emirates Stadium with last season’s runners-up, Arsenal, hosting Nottingham Forest. Matchday coverage starts at 11am on TNT Sports 1, live from the ground, with a new Early Kick-Off show hosted by Jules Breach with Joe Cole and one of TNT […]
Sky has obtained a UK High Court order that will make ISPs responsible for blocking piracy services illegally streaming sports and entertainment it owns rights to. The blocking order, granted last week, will require UK online platforms to stop people from illegally accessing streams across a range of linear channels — where viewers must tune […]
TNT Sports has gone live throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, replacing BT Sport, marking one of the most significant changes in the sports broadcast landscape in the last decade. In addition to the launch of a new brand, discovery+ now becomes the new streaming destination for TNT Sports in the UK. discovery+ will […]