BT open to wholesale sports deals with Virgin, Talk Talk
BT Retail CEO Gavin Patterson said the firm was still open to doing wholesale deals for its forthcoming sports channels with Virgin Media and Talk Talk, but stressed its strategy wasn’t dependent on...
View ArticleSky exec to head BT’s TV unit
Delia Bushell Delia Bushell has been appointed managing director of BT TV, the UK telco’s growing pay television division. BT and BSkyB have been battling for sports rights in the UK and Bushell served...
View ArticleNTV+’s Sport Plus on Akado
Russian service provider Akado has added NTV+ channel Sport Plus to its Antenna Akado service and digital cable service in the Moscow region. Sport Plus will also be available in St Petersburg and the...
View ArticleSky to live-stream sport and news on Facebook
Facebook’s new ‘live reactions’ function Sky is planning to broadcast “a great deal of content” on Facebook Live in the coming months across both news and sports, according to digital director Lucien...
View ArticleAmpere: sports viewing on the decline among millennials
Interest in sport among young millennials is “on the decline” with many viewers lured away from sport by the wealth of TV and online video content, according to new research. The Ampere Analysis report...
View ArticleNAB: OTT TV and online sports ‘not disruptive’ to pay TV
Michael Paull The rise of sports-focused online video provider BAMTech and of live online sports is complementary rather than disruptive of traditional pay TV, according to company CEO Michael Paull....
View ArticleNetflix model ‘could up sports teams’ revenues by x56’
Major football clubs could up fan revenues by a multiplier of 56-times by replicating Netflix’s subscription content model, according to the GM of Microsoft’s sports business. Speaking at the KPMG and...
View ArticleSport key to pay TV subscriptions, says survey
Pay TV subscribers are highly likely to churn in the absence of premium sports rights being part of their service, according to a UK survey by Broadband Genie. According to the survey, 57% of pay TV...
View ArticleSportsfix taps Brightcove for Asian sports delivery
Southeast Asian over-the-top service, Sportsfix, has partnered with Brightcove to deliver live and on-demand local sports content across the region. Malaysia-based Sportsfix, which first launched in...
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