Jul 27 2017
The Premier League has been awarded a new High Court order for the 2017-18 season to allow it to block pirated streams of matches via Kodi set-top boxes. In March, the High Court had approved a Premier League application to block the computer servers that power the illegal streams, rather than just individual streams, and […]
Jul 4 2017
BT Sport has won the right to exclusively show live coverage of the European Rugby Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup from next year. The new deal, starting from the 2018/19 season, will see BT Sport showing all of the best European Club Rugby matches until at least 2021/22. With some of the […]
Jul 4 2017
More than a third of Premier League football fans say they regularly watch matches live online via unofficial streams, according to a survey carried out by ComRes and BBC 5 Live, the Corporation’s sport and news radio service. The poll suggests that younger adults are those most likely to say they stream matches via unauthorised […]
Jul 3 2017
UK TV coverage of the world’s most prestigious cycle race has been secured by ITV. The Tour de France will be shown by ITV until 2023 in a new rights deal announced to coincide with coverage of this year’s event on ITV4. The new deal covers live coverage and highlights. ITV took over highlights of […]
Jun 30 2017
The BBC and the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have agreed a new five-year, strategic partnership that brings live cricket back to BBC TV for the first time in 21 years. The deal, which runs from 2020 to 2024, sees the BBC become the exclusive, free-to-air home for cricket. Cricket will take centre stage […]
Jun 26 2017
Free-to-air sports channel Front Runner TV has ceased broadcasting on Freeview. The service, operated by London-based Information TV, was broadcast on Freeview and YouView channel 91 with coverage extending to around 3/4 of UK households. It was taken off air during the course of Friday 23rd June. The first sign of an irregularity came when […]
Jun 15 2017
Sky Italia has secured exclusive live rights to all UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches from the 2018/19 season through to 2020/21, significantly strengthening Sky’s position as the leading sports content provider in Italy. The rights had previously been held by Mediaset. Sky has acquired exclusive TV rights to over 340 matches on all […]
Jun 14 2017
The rackets are out, the strawberries and cream are being prepared and the words ‘quiet please’ will soon become a familiar phrase. BBC celebrates 90 years of Wimbledon coverage, 1927-2017 New for 2017: Wimbledon qualifying matches broadcast live from Roehampton for the first time Sue Barker leads the TV coverage across BBC One and BBC […]
May 27 2017
Free to air Sports channel Front Runner has expanded its service on satellite, with Greyhound Racing moving to its own channel. The change has put an end to the situation which led to the satellite (Sky/Freesat) and terrestrial (Freeview) version of Front Runner carrying different programmes at prime-time, with Greyhound Racing on satellite, and other […]
May 16 2017
The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League finals will be available for absolutely anyone to watch on TV and online, with the former also set to be shown in 360° virtual reality, 4K UHD on YouTube and 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos in a series of broadcast firsts for the biggest game in world […]
Mar 9 2017
Fans will be able to watch this season’s UK rounds, LIVE and for FREE on Front Runner. The 2017 season will be the first in British GT’s 25-year history to feature live coverage from every UK round. The British GT Championship features more than 30 supercars which have been specifically prepared for racing. Viewers will […]
BBC Radio 4 begins information campaign to transition listeners from Long Wave
Sky News launches international audio service
ITVX Kids launching in Summer 2023
CNN launches new FAST channel in Europe
More organisations join crusade to protect terrestrial television and radio
Channel launches and updates on Freeview
ITV announces closure of CITV
BBC switch from SD to HD on satellite
Joint UK/international BBC News service from March
Loss of channels on Freesat 4K TV Boxes after a reset
Aug 18 2017
FreeSports coming to Freesat
FreeSports, the new free-to-air sports channel launching on August 31, has confirmed that it will be available on Freesat. Premier Sports and the former Setanta UK service, has confirmed that the channel will be on Freesat channel 252. The channel will also be available on Sky 424 and Freeview / YouView (BT/TalkTalk) channel 95. The […]
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By Expat • Freesat, Sport • Tags: free-to-air, FreeSports, Satellite