The channel is part of the multi-channel OTT platform Channelbox, on Freeview channel 271. Dedicated skiing channel, Ski TV, has launched in the UK on Freeview 271, via the multi-channel OTT platform Channelbox. It streams a range of programming around skiing, including lifestyle, sport, weather, interviews with athletes and resorts overviews. Channelbox works through TV […]
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COMMENT: Enhancing fan engagement during lockdown
Ian Sharpe, CEO of Promethean TV, on the efforts being made by the sports industry and sports TV to encourage and enhance fan engagement during lockdown, and some things that haven’t worked. When we launched Promethean TV in 2016, the year 2020 seemed remote – a date with which to conjure the future. We talked […]
Extreme E enhances environmental reputation with cloud-based distribution
The competition is working with Base Media Cloud and Veritone to create a cloud-native storage and content distribution platform Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum, Extreme E head of broadcast and technology, Dave Adey, Base Media Cloud managing director Ben Foakes, and Veritone senior director, customer solutions, David Candler, have explained how they’ve […]
Premier League ditches controversial pay-per-view model
All the games that were planned for pay-per-view will now be distributed between Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime and BBC Sport. The Premier League has scrapped its controversial move to pay-per-view. In a statement, it said, from Saturday 21 November and throughout Christmas and the new year period, “all fixtures will be made available […]
Premier League schedule (2-30 November 2020)
Which broadcaster is showing which games in November, and which are going pay-per-view. Elite sports including The Premier League are unaffected by the country-wide lockdown beginning on Thursday this week (5 November). What also appears to remain unaffected is the controversial introduction of Premier League matches as pay-per-view, through Sky Sports Box Office and BT […]
Premier League TV schedule (17 Oct – 2 Nov 2020)
Where to watch the Premier League fixtures for the rest of October. The Premier League takes a back seat for the internationals this weekend. Here’s the TV schedule for when it returns on Saturday 17 October, and throughout the rest of October. Sky Sports has the broadcast rights for 12 of the 15 matches listed […]
Where to watch the Premier League this weekend (3-4 October 2020)
The TV schedule for this weekend’s Premier League football fixtures. Here’s our weekly round-up of which broadcasters are showing the weekend’s Premier League games. The 3pm blackout remains cancelled, allowing all matches to continue to be shown on TV. Premier League 2020/21 fixtures Saturday 3 October Chelsea v Crystal Palace (12:30pm) BT Sport Everton v […]
Where to watch this weekend’s Premier League fixtures
The TV schedule for this weekend’s Premier League games. There are 10 Premier League matches on this weekend and Monday, which are all live on TV, following the removal of the 3pm blackout while fans are unable to attend stadiums. With the situation likely to remain the same for the next six months, it seems […]
All Premier League games in September to be shown live on TV
The 3pm blackout of matches has been removed, at least in the short term, meaning all matches this month will be available on TV. As Broadcast Sport predicted earlier today, the 3pm blackout for Premier League games on television has once again been lifted, meaning that fans will now be able to watch every one […]
Eurosport ‘teleports’ players into The Cube for photo-real remote interviews
Impressive use of technology to enable highly realistic looking face-to-face interviews with the interviewer and sports stars in different physical locations. The Eurosport Cube went live during coverage of the US Open last night with the broadcaster welcoming its first ‘teleported’ player guests. You can see a clip from the interview between Eurosport presenter Barbara […]
Swedish pay-TV operator Com Hem to air 24/7 network Fight Sports
The agreement means Fight Sports will reach almost 1m pay-TV subscribers in Sweden. CSI Sports has signed a long-term carriage deal with Swedish pay-TV operator Com Hem and its brand Boxer, to broadcast CSI Sports’ 24/7 HD network, Fight Sports. This follows Fight Sports being awarded a five-year digital terrestrial television (DTT) license in Sweden. […]
Premier League: TV guide and which games are free-to-air (14-22 July)
Which broadcaster is showing which Premier League matches, 14-22 July. The schedule for Premier League matches for the next batch of games taking place from 14-22 July has now been revealed. This follows the schedule for the initial first three match rounds, which we unveiled earlier this month and for 4-13 July 2020. Kick-off times: […]
Free-to-air triumphs with return of the Premier League
(This article first appeared in Broadcast. Words by Stephen Price) BBC1 Premier League match well ahead of Sky, BT and Amazon Premier League Football returned this week and the process of cramming 92 games in over a little over a month began on Wednesday. Most matches are on Sky Sports (64 live games), while BT […]
COMMENT: Understanding why sports fans break the rules
Simon Brydon, senior director, sports rights anti-piracy, Synamedia, on why piracy of sports broadcasts remains a problem and what can be done about it. From spying on an opponent’s training session ahead of a crunch fixture to sandpapering the cricket ball, the dubious ways rules have been bent and broken to give sports teams an […]
BBC1’s Premier League debut peaks with 4.1m
Match was the second most-watched non-news offering of the day. The first ever Premier League match to play live on BBC1 peaked at 4.1m (26.1%) around the 30-minute mark on Saturday night. Across its 150-minute run it averaged 3.3m (20.4%) – behind the 4m (23.3%) slot average but the second most-watched non-news offering of the […]
Premier League’s Return – The Broadcast Schedule For 4-13 July
Which broadcaster is showing which Premier League matches, 4-13 July. The schedule for Premier League matches for the next batch of games taking place from 4-13 July has now been revealed. This follows the schedule for the initial first three match rounds, which we unveiled earlier this month. The Premier League returned last night, with […]
Man City vs Arsenal is most-watched Sky Sports football game for 3 years
Return to Premier League football after three-month hiatus draws big audience for Sky Sports With pubs remaining closed and football having been off screens for three months, viewers tuned in in droves to watch Arsenal and Man City’s match-up, which kicked off at 8.15pm. The 2.6m (14.3%) who witnessed Arsenal’s drubbing across Sky Sports Main […]
Whisper chief sacrifices entire salary
Sunil Patel forgoes income as Sony indie faces £30m shortfall Whisper chief executive Sunil Patel has given up his entire year’s salary to help staff as the indie reacts to having almost £30m of revenues placed on hold. The directors of the Sony-backed business, which also include Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard, were each […]
Sky launches first TV packages combining Sky Sports and BT Sport
They’ve never been offered together on Sky TV before Sky has launched new TV packages including both Sky Sports and BT Sport together for the first time. Three new packages have been introduced with BT Sport attached on 18-month contracts. These additions come on the same day as BT begins to offer Sky Sports and […]
Sky Sports secures exclusive IPL rights
It has signed a three-year deal to show the cricket tournament Sky Sports has secured a three-year deal to exclusively show the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the UK. The broadcaster held the rights to the T20 tournament from 2015-18, but lost out to BT Sports at the last minute for 2019. It had been […]
Will Carling: How technology is changing our experience of rugby
The first in a series of six weekly blogs from rugby legend Will Carling, written exclusively for Broadcast Sport Last year, for the very first time during the 2019 Guinness Six Nations Championship, fans had access to never-before-seen insights into the great game of rugby through new on-screen dynamic stats powered by Amazon Web Services […]
Lauded mountaineer Kilian Jornet gets Rakuten TV doc
Rakuten TV unveils free-to-air doc about record breaking mountaineer, ultramarathon and extreme sports star Rakuten TV is launching a documentary – Inside Kilian Jornet – that follows mountaineer and extreme sports athlete Kilian Jornet on his 2019 international tour. The documentary was shot throughout last year across 10 cities in Europe, Asia and the United States. It […]
Channel 5 and WWE wrestle a deal
ViacomCBS secures UK’s first free-to-air highlights of the sport Wrestling highlights are coming to free-to-air in the UK for the first time after WWE secured a partnership with Channel 5 owner ViacomCBS. From February, C5 will air a one-hour version of the Raw programme on Sunday mornings at 10:30am, with SmackDown highlights will be broadcast in the same slot […]
Peter Crouch turns comedy host for BBC1
Fulwell 73 nets 14-part studio show for next summer’s Euros Peter Crouch’s position as key BBC talent could be enhanced by a greenlight for a comedy entertainment show from Fulwell 73. The former England footballer and podcast host is fronting BBC1’s Crouch’s Euro Fest 2020 next summer. The BBC describes the 14 x 45-minute series as a “live post-match festival […]
GOLFTV reveals details of its first Japan Skins event
The 18-hole challenge features Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Maysuyama and some of the world’s biggest rugby stars GOLFTV has revealed further details of its inaugural Japan Skins event, which features four of golf’s finest – Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Maysuyama – going head-to-head over 18 holes. The […]
Why esports needs TV
How the storytelling ability of television will add significant value to esports The Esports industry has grown into a serious player despite having very little coverage on traditional TV. There are a spattering of televised esports tournaments, and broadcasters including BT Sport, ITV and Sky Sports have dabbled in bits and pieces of esports broadcasting, […]