Sky share price falls on massive Premier League TV rights spend while BT rises February 11, 2015 Shares in Sky fell as much as five per cent in early trading this morning, leading the FTSE lower, after it agreed to fork out £4.2bn on the TV rights for Premier League football games. The broadcaster paid 83 per cent more for the rights to screen 126 football games each season from 2016 to 2019 [...]
Sky high bids top £5bn for Premier League TV football rights February 10, 2015 Sky footed a huge £4.2bn bill last night in order to maintain its grip on Premier League football. The media giant will show 126 Premier League football matches per season from 2016 to 2019. It will pay over £11m for each game. The bill is an eye-watering 83 per cent increase over Sky’s existing three-year [...]
Sky and BT win Premier League rights: The billions keep pouring in, but do fans benefit from football’s boom? February 10, 2015 The flood of cash pouring into the Premier League each year just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Many fans roll their eyes as the numbers in football become increasingly astronomical – but do supporters of top flight teams benefit from the growing billions that TV firms put in? In terms of ticket prices, the answer [...]
Premier League sells TV rights for record £5.14bn to Sky and BT February 10, 2015 Premier League games are worth more money than ever before after the league agreed a new TV rights deal worth an incredible £5.136bn with Sky and BT. The average live Premier League football game will cost £10.2m to screen from the 2016-17 onwards, after Sky and BT shared the 168 games split across [...]
Premier League set for £4bn in TV auction bids and Sky and BT prepare for battle February 5, 2015 Today marks the closing of the deadline for bids in the multi-billion pound auction for the UK TV broadcast rights of the Premier League. The three seasons to 2019 of the most-watched football league in the world will certainly see BT and Sky battle it out for the coveted rights. But with the added possibility [...]
Sky staves off the cold winter once again as profits and customer numbers rise February 4, 2015 The City cheered Sky yesterday as – despite increasing competition in sport, huge amounts of industry consolidation occurring all around it and a mobile offering due to launch behind those of rivals – the firm continues to grow. With the former exclusively UK broadcaster now reporting solid growth across all of its three European markets, [...]
Ofcom refuses Virgin Media’s request to delay Premier League rights broadcast auction February 4, 2015 Ofcom has refused a request made by Virgin Media to delay the auction of Premier League broadcast rights. The high-stakes bidding for the rights to broadcast the UK’s biggest football games will now continue as usual and is expected next week. Virgin Media is not making a bid for the rights, but the auction is [...]
Sky beats expectations with strongest UK growth in nine years February 4, 2015 Sky has beaten expectations in its first set of results as a Europe-wide business, with profits jumping thanks to the best UK performance in nine years and record demand in Germany. The figures In its first results including the Italian and German businesses – following the completion of the merger in November – Sky's adjusted [...]
Sky agrees deal with O2 owner Telefonica to launch mobile service January 29, 2015 Sky has agreed a deal with Telefonica to launch a mobile network in the UK. The broadcaster will launch a mobile service for customers in 2016 using Telefonica’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks. The move follows hot on the heels of rivals moving into the mobile business in order to offer customers so-called "quad play" [...]
A polar bear on the loose in London – or is it? Animatronic animal promotes new Sky Atlantic series Fortitude January 27, 2015 We know it's cold in London, but we didn't think it was Arctic. Why else would a polar bear be wandering the capital's streets? For a major publicity stunt perhaps? Sky Atlantic has gone all out to promote its new big-budget series Fortitude, sending an eight-foot long semi-animatronic polar bear around the city centre. [...]