June 30, 2017• Sport, TV
Sky Sports is reportedly getting a bit of a makeover, losing the numbered channels currently known as Sky Sports 1-5, and instead gaining...
March 6, 2017• Sport, TV
Last week, BT Chief Executive Gavin Patterson was reported as saying that “rampant inflation in sports rights” had to end....
January 26, 2017• Sport, TV
Channel carriage disputes are relatively rare in the UK, but we’re in for a sizeable one right now, with Discovery publicly stepping...
October 7, 2016• Sport, TV
The chart above is screen-grabbed from an otherwise excellent ITV4 documentary called When Football Changed the World. It looked at the...
September 19, 2016• Sport
There is much wrong in the world of sport, including doping. Intrinsically most sports bodies are placed in tough positions, often at odds...
May 31, 2016• Sport, TV
Since I had a look at the Europa League viewership the other day, I thought it was only fair to consider the Champions’ League Final...
May 20, 2016• Sport, TV
Well the first results are in. BT is very pleased that BT Sport got a record audience on Wednesday night for the Europa League Final...
May 16, 2016• Radio, Sport
No, I’m not writing about the new Premier League contracts for UK radio. They do seem a bit overdue though, and I’m slightly...
March 24, 2016• Media, Sport, TV
Here’s how F1 and Bernie Ecclestone do business: 21 December 2015 – Channel 4 wins terrestrial rights to Formula 1, after the...
December 16, 2015• Sport, TV
Judging from recent interviews across the media, Virgin Media CEO Tom Mockridge is out and about shouting loudly about his company’s...