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Internet and Mobile Premier League Rights

Recently News International won the rights for both mobile and internet highlights pacakges from the next season. These are the packages that are currently owned by ESPN (mobile) and Yahoo (internet), neither of whom will have any rights from...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 28, 2013 12:50 PM

Olympics Day 5 - Wiggo

OK. I didn't get to watch anything live today. It was a busy work day - but more of that later tonight. However I did manage to catch Bradley Wiggins' awesome time trial ride. Coming 10 days after his victory...

Posted by Adam Bowie on August 1, 2012 9:38 PM

Olympics Day 4 - Archery

[Again, I've not had a chance to update my photos yet, so I'll drop them in later] Archery is another wildcard event in that I was able to get a couple of £20 tickets, and thought it'd be fun to...

Posted by Adam Bowie on August 1, 2012 9:19 PM

The Premier League's £3bn Deal

First of all - wow! I mean WOW! £3bn for the new Premier League rights. A 71% increase on the 2010/11 - 2012/3 deal. In the current economic climate, that has to be a spectacular result for the Premier League,...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 13, 2012 7:43 PM

Sport on TV - Racing

Channel 4 has just done a deal with the Racecourse Media Group to become the exclusive free-to0air broadcaster of horse racing of all forms of horse racing in the UK. At first glance, it'd seem to be a good...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 19, 2012 9:32 AM

US Sport on BBC Radio

A few days ago, the BBC press office put out a press release detailing some of their US sport coverage. In particular, coverage of Major League Baseball's World Series, and NFL coverage ahead of the International Series game at...

Posted by Adam Bowie on October 26, 2011 8:30 AM

Following Le Tour

No. Sadly, I don't mean spending large parts of July in a camper van driving between the Pyrenees and the Alps, joining the multi-national throngs clinging to the mountainsides. I mean following the Tour, on-air and online. Assuming that you're...

Posted by Adam Bowie on July 27, 2011 9:26 AM

The Business of Football

I'm still coming down from an excpetional Wednesday night that saw Arsenal overcome a 1-0 defecit to win beat Barcelona, easily the best team in the world, 2-1. As I sit there dreaming about how Arsenal might maintain that lead...

Posted by Adam Bowie on February 18, 2011 2:06 PM

World Cup 2018 Redux

Broadcast magazine has a really interesting story relating to England's failed bid for the 2018 World Cup. The story is here (behind a paywall). In summary, it seems that in its bid proposal, England agreed to remove the 2018...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 13, 2011 1:28 PM

Ashes Not To Be Listed

A Media Guardian report this morning suggests that the new Government is not going to add The Ashes to the sporting Listed Events, ignoring the recommendation that they should be included in David Davies' report from last November. The Guardian...

Posted by Adam Bowie on July 21, 2010 9:56 AM

Grotesque Television

Stage 1 of the Tour de France had finished in a series of crashes, and Rafa had wrapped up another Wimbledon title. What else was there in the way of sport to watch on television? I strayed over to ESPN...

Posted by Adam Bowie on July 5, 2010 12:15 AM

World Cup Coverage in the Middle East

You may be sick of the World Cup now having seen today's debacle. But I'm a bit confused about the coverage of the World Cup in the Middle East. From what I can gather, the rights to the whole Arab...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 28, 2010 12:08 AM

BBC Tennis

You're a news and sport radio station. It's reached the stage in the World Cup where final group games take place simultaneously and you've promised listeners that you'll cover all the matches. It's Wimbledon fortnight and Andy Murray has...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 22, 2010 11:52 AM

To Watch and Listen To Between the Football

A few things that caught my eye this week: By far the best World Cup package surrounding the games must have been the package that aired after the Italy v Paraguay game. It was all about the footballers of Robben...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 18, 2010 10:10 PM

Dropping The Ball

I know that a million and one other people have already talked about ITV's nightmare last night (yes - I'm conveniently overlooking Robert Green's one), but it really is worth saying a little more. ITV1's HD channel managed to miss...

Posted by Adam Bowie on June 13, 2010 8:28 AM

Should The Ashes Be Listed?

On Friday, a Department of Culture, Media & Sport consultation based around their Review of Listed Events closed. This consultation was based around some preliminary suggestions on the updating of the list of sporting (and other cultural) events for which...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 22, 2010 6:51 PM

Vancouver A Sell Out?

According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I'm always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women's Ice Hockey last night, and...

Posted by Adam Bowie on February 15, 2010 9:06 AM

US Sport v European Sport

I stayed up late last night to watch the Superbowl. I like American Football, and once you get over the inordinate number of breaks in play it's a fine sport. I suggest that you either diligently us your PVR in...

Posted by Adam Bowie on February 8, 2010 8:18 AM

ATP World Tour Finals

I was lucky enough to go to the evening sessions at the O2 of the ATP World Tour Finals in London earlier this week - attending on both Monday and Tuesday. Overall I had a great time - not...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 29, 2009 1:27 PM

Radio Times 24 November 2009

As of ten minutes ago, I'm not staying in tonight, but off to the O2 to see Murray v Federer this evening in the ATP World Tour Finals . But before I knew that, I was busy deciding what...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 24, 2009 1:59 PM