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World Cup pushes global TV shipments to 221m in 2018

March 8, 2019 07.08 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The global TV market grew 2.9% in 2018, reaching 221 million units, due to a sales surge in the first half of the year as many consumers upgraded their TVs […]

Filed Under: Newsline, Research Tagged With: football, IHS Markit, Paul Gray, World Cup Edited: 8 March 2019 07:08

Eleven Sports: “irresponsible to leave the market in the hands of criminals”

October 17, 2018 15.18 Europe/London By Robert Briel

“Out of respect for the wishes of our partners, we will for the time being no longer show matches during the Saturday afternoon blackout period, ” said Eleven Sports in […]

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Regulation, Top Story, TV Tagged With: Eleven Sports, football, La Liga, Piracy Edited: 19 October 2018 10:37

Eleven Sports challenges UK’s Saturday football blackout

October 14, 2018 12.43 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Sports streaming service Eleven Sports is challenging the ban on televising live football games on Saturday afternoons in the UK.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, OTT, Regulation, Top Story Tagged With: Eleven Sports, football, La Liga, Piracy, UK Edited: 16 October 2018 11:54

Samsung and OTT service beIN Connect offer 4k football

August 25, 2018 14.13 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Samsung Electronics Iberia and beIN Connect, the OTT platform of the Mediapro group, have announced the renewal of their partnership agreement to continue offering LaLiga football content in 4K – […]

Filed Under: Connected TV, Newsline, OTT, TV, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, beIN Connect, football, LaLiga, Samsung, Spain Edited: 27 August 2018 14:10

IMG launches Serie A Pass football OTT service

August 17, 2018 14.49 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Sports rights organisation IMG is launching Serie A Pass, a global OTT subscription service delivering live coverage of every game from the top Italian League in selected markets around the […]

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, OTT Tagged With: football, IMG, Italy, Serie A Edited: 21 August 2018 08:15

Facebook to stream free La Liga football in India

August 14, 2018 08.27 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Facebook has acquired the media rights of Spain’s top-division football championship, La Liga, for the Indian subcontinent.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Top Story, TV Tagged With: Facebook, football, India, La Liga, Peter Hutton Edited: 15 August 2018 10:59

Quest launches On Demand player

July 25, 2018 07.43 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Discovery is launching QuestOD, a catch-up and live streaming service for its free-to-air factual entertainment brands Quest and Quest Red in the UK.

Filed Under: Newsline, On Demand/VOD, TV Tagged With: Discovery Communications, EFL, football, Quest, UK Edited: 25 July 2018 07:43

Spanish La Liga to launch OTT sports platform

February 19, 2018 10.06 Europe/London By Robert Briel

The Spanish La Liga will be creating its own multi-sport OTT streaming service that will be offered free of charge to viewers.

Filed Under: Newsline, OTT, TV Tagged With: football, Javier Tebas, La Liga, Spain Edited: 19 February 2018 10:06

Football accounts for 27% of sports programming

December 7, 2017 14.46 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

In 2017 football, winter sports and local competitions have gathered large audiences in front of TV screens around the world.

Filed Under: Newsline, Research, TV Tagged With: EurodataTV, football, Mediametrie, sports programming Edited: 7 December 2017 14:46

ARD and ZDF secure UEFA Nations League

October 27, 2017 09.21 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF will continue to screen the international matches of Germany’s national football team.

Filed Under: Newsline, TV Tagged With: ARD, football, Rights, SportA, UEFA Nations League, ZDF Edited: 27 October 2017 09:22

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