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Former ITV Chief Adam Crozier Named Chairman Of UK Telecoms Company BT
Adam Crozier, the British executive who was previously CEO of ITV and the Football Association, will take over as chair of UK telecommunications outfit BT at the end of the year.
The move follows the resignation of Jan du Plessis from the role back in March. There was understood to be friction between du Plessis and…
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By Tom Grater
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Inside The Revolutionary Plans To Broadcast The Premier League Safely In The Coronavirus Era
Thirteen weeks, five days and five hours after being postponed, the Premier League is back today. For a sport-starved world, it will be akin to a Premier League World Cup — a festival of football that will see 92 games being played in little more than a month and the crowning of a new champion (Liverpool have…
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British Pay-TV Broadcaster BT Keen To Retain Multi-Billion Dollar Champions League Soccer Rights But Rules Out Content Expansion
British pay-TV operator and Sky rival BT is keen to keep hold of the exclusive rights to show the Champions League soccer tournament in the UK but has no plans to expand its content offering outside of sport.
This comes as the telecoms company, which operates the BT Sport channel, said that it has fielded an…
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By Peter White
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Amazon Scores Major English Premier League Matches After SVOD Strikes Landmark UK Sports Right Deal
Amazon is getting into English Premier League soccer after securing a package of high-profile games in the UK – arguably its biggest move into the live sports arena.
The SVOD service has bought the rights to 20 matches per season between 2019-2022, although it's thought that the company managed to get them at a…
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By Peter White
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Sky & BT Retain Premier League Soccer Rights As Auction Continues With Multiple Bidders
It’s game day for the battle for the UK rights to Premier League soccer as Sky and BT have both retained a number of packages. However, the auction is still ongoing with two of the seven packages still yet to be decided, leaving open the possibility of a bid from one of the digital giants such as Amazon. Multiple…
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By Peter White
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English Premier League Rights’ Battle Heats Up Ahead Of Auction Kick Off
The battle for the UK rights to the Premier League soccer league is heating up with the auction expected to kick off next week.
21st Century Fox-backed European pay platform Sky and telecoms company BT are facing fresh competition from a raft of digital firms such as Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. Deadline understands…
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By Peter White
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BT Beats Out Sky To Win Broadcast Rights To The Ashes Cricket Test Series
In a sign of the shifting balance of power, telco BT has won the right to broadcast the next Ashes cricket test series between England and Australia. BT is believed to have paid around $120 million to broadcast the series, which is hosted in rotation between the two countries once every two years – comparable in…
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By Ali Jaafar
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AMC To Launch In UK This September Exclusively On BT
Cable channel AMC will launch this September in the UK for the first time after striking an exclusive deal with BT. The channel, available for the first time in the UK, will be carried on BT’s YouView platform.
AMC execs had been in talks with various Pay TV platforms for some months over carriage for its channels…
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By Ali Jaafar
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Premier League Soccer TV Rights Stay With Sky & BT In Record $7.8B Deal
England’s Premier League has sold its latest round of soccer TV rights for a record-breaking $7.8 billion (£5.136 billion) to Sky and BT, representing a 71% increase from its last rights auction, also won by Sky and BT. Sky paid $64 billion (£4.2 billion) for five of the seven TV packages while BT paid $1.46 billion…
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By Ali Jaafar
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BSkyB: Half-Year Operating Profit Beats Forecasts Despite Slip; New Sports Deals
BSkyB posted £3.75B in adjusted revenues for the six months ended December 31, 2013, up 7.6% on the comparable period in 2012, the company said this morning. Operating profit dropped 8% to £595M compared to the same period the year prior. Still, that was slightly better than the £586M some analysts had predicted as Sky…
Will BSkyB’s Soccer Rights Loss Be A Win For British TV Producers?
Shares in 21st Century Fox-controlled BSkyB were up today in London after falling as much as 10% on Monday. That drop came after the UK’s BT Sport scored a big goal by winning the exclusive broadcast rights to 350 UEFA Champions League and Europa League soccer matches per year from the 2015/2016 season. The £897M…
BT & Virgin In Sports Channels Deal Just Ahead Of Premier League Soccer Kick Off
Britain’s BT has pacted with Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media to offer its nascent BT Sport package on Virgin's UK pay-TV service. The move comes just in time for the British Premier League soccer season which kicks off this weekend. The wholesale deal more than triples the number of BT Sport viewers, bringing the…
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