La Liga and broadcasters adapt ‘Ultimate Xpert’ competition for Covid-19

The competition has had to be tweaked to deal with the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic La Liga is teaming up with broadcasters across the globe for its ‘Ultimate Xpert’ competition, which runs from December until May. In seasons past, this has entailed lucky subscribers, journalists, and influencers visiting stadiums, watching matches, and taking part […]

FreeSports to air Friday night Karate Combat bouts

The fighting format pitches karate champions against each other in a series of virtual worlds. Premier Media Broadcasting has picked up the rights to season two of Karate Combat, a format that places real fighters in virtual environments. The broadcaster will air weekly Friday night Karate Combat fights on free-to-air channel FreeSports, with bouts held […]

LaLiga makes 24/7 channel LaLigaTV free-of-charge until 1 October

The LaLiga season returns on 12 September, with all live games free-to-access via LaLigaTV until 1 October. LaLiga and UK rights holder Premier Sports is offering fans in the UK full free access to 24/7 channel, LaLigaTV, until October. LaLigaTV airs all live matches from Spain’s top division, as well as a host of documentaries, […]

LiveScore extends free-to-air football coverage for 2020/21 season

The full list of football matches for the next season on LiveScore is below. Sports streamer and real-time sports updates service LiveScore has added to its free-to-air live streaming rights for the 2020-21 football season. In an agreement with rights holder, Premier Sports, LiveScore will stream 306 matches from Italy’s 2020-21 Serie A campaign for […]

LaLigaTV channel to launch on Sky TV

Premier Sports and LaLiga bring dedicated 24/7 LaLigaTV channel to Sky EPG LaLiga is bringing its new dedicated TV channel to the Sky platform in the New Year, showing all live matches from Spain’s top-flight league in full HD. The LaLigaTV channel launches on Sky from Monday 13 January and costs £5.99 a month. To […]

Premier Sports launches LaLigaTV streaming service

Channel dedicated to Spain’s La Liga is available in the UK and Ireland from today. Premier Sports has launched its dedicated English-language channel dedicated to Spain’s LaLiga. LaLigaTV is available from today in the UK and Ireland via the Premier Player OTT streaming service, costing £5.99 per month or £49 annually. Premier Sports began broadcasting […]

Premier Sports brings La Liga to UK

‘Historic’ three-year deal covers all Spanish league games and introduces dedicated platform LaLiga and Premier Sports have announced a “historic agreement” that will see all La Liga games to the end of the 2021/22 season broadcast in the UK and Ireland. It has also revealed the launch of LaLigaTV; a dedicated 24/7 channel in the […]

STV to stream 24-hour sports feed

Broadcaster partners with Premier Sports and FreeSports for on-demand offering STV is to offer an ‘always on’ sports channel on STV Player after partnering with pay TV sports broadcaster Premier Sports and free-to-air sister channel FreeSports. By streaming FreeSports, STV becomes the first broadcaster to operate a VoD service providing a free-to-air, 24-hour sports feed. […]