This article titled "BSkyB and ESPN lead field for Premier League auction of live UK TV rights"
was written by Mark Sweney, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 7th June 2012 12.53 UTC
The Premier League's £2bn-plus auction of live UK television rights draws to a close on Friday,
with a field of potential bidders including al-Jazeera, Google and Channel 4 understood to have
dramatically thinned.
Google and Apple may not exactly be the first names that spring to mind when looking for
alternatives to challenge Sky's dominance of sports broadcasting in Britain, but it should be no
surprise that two of the giants of the tech and online world are eyeing up sport as a way to lure
consumers into their new offerings.
New SPL TV deal Good or bad for Scottish football? is a post from: Just Football
by William Heaney
Not surprisingly, the news that Sky and ESPN have extended their deal to provide coverage of the
SPL has been well received within the Scottish football community.
The two companies have been the league's main broadcasting partners since 2009, when they came
to the rescue after Setanta's collapse.
Not be sniffed at. Five years of stability at a time of economic uncertainty.
So well done to the SPL on the signing of their new TV deal?
Not exactly.
£16 million a season (that's the figure being widely reported) for 60 live games. 30 games a
season on ESPN and 30 more, Old Firm jamborees included, on Sky.
Hat tip to Dave Laidig for sending a couple of interesting business stories this way. We'll
start with an extremely comprehensive look at Premier League viewing by SportingIntelligence.com.Â
This site typically focuses on American soccer stories, but this analysis is so detailed, that as
fans of the business side of the game, we think this breakdown is definitely worth the read.
Football's television money will forever turn heads.
The Guardian reports that:
"The deal that shares television's billions equally between Premier League clubs is facing its
biggest threat to date after Liverpool announced they would lead a challenge for overseas TV rights
to be sold on a club-by-club basis.
Being as I barely update this site anymore, here are some more active/useful ones for you to
visit. You all know the newspaper sites, Football365, ESPN, etc for news and match reports and
stuff, but these you may not have heard of.
Goals/Highlights and Games
101GreatGoals - Updated incessantly with goals from all around the world.
The year 2011 is set up to be a big one in women's football. The UEFA Women's Champions League
Final will be held at Craven Cottage on May 26. The FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in Germany
and begins on June 26. Last, but not least, the new FA Women's Super League is being launched today
and our very own Arsenal Ladies team will be involved in the opening game.
Altitude announced Tuesday that it will broadcast a total of 27 Colorado Rapids regular season
games during the 2011 season.
Game coverage on Altitude will begin on Saturday, March 26, as the Rapids take on their
conference rivals, Chivas USA live on Altitude 2. Altitude will be broadcasting 25 live games
including 13 roads matches, as well as an additional two telecasts on instant replay via an
agreement with ESPN, all in high definition.
Australia's FA has volunteered the A-League to be goal line technology guinea pigs, if FIFA finally
decides to begin testing a system in live games at any point in the future. Reports on initial
testing on the setups FIFA is exploring are due to the International Football Association Board
(IFAB, the rules committee) next month.
Dear Friends at Match Day Live (Text Version Below),
Dear Friends at Match Day Live,
Hello? How are you? Enjoying my $40 dollars? I sure as hell hope you are because I'm not!
For the last couple years as a poor college student, and now as a semi poor married man I've
happily paid the ever expanding cost of your live service to watch my favorite team, the Kansas
City Wizards play.
To many die-hard soccer fans the increase of sponsorship is a sign of growth and acceptance of
the sport. They also know that it is this additional revenue that is necessary for clubs to have
the funds to bring in better talent and improve the teams success on the field. So it's with that
we look at a few of the key sponsorship deals the Silverbacks have made this off season.
We at 11Gunners are thrilled to announce not one but two new full-time writer's! After months of
look-out, we can proudly boast to have made the right choices.
Whilst Akhil is based in London & makes it to all the games; Sri does the same from Coimbatore,
here in India! Whilst the former is second-to-none when it comes to exclusive insights from the
Emirates; our guy from down-south, is as astute an analyst as they come.
Less than two weeks until First Kick and the pace of preseason is starting to pick up. The
various tournaments started up over the weekend with MLSSoccer.com offering high quality streaming
of matches. Various team Twitter accounts used the matches as an opportunity to reach out to fans
by providing updates and play-by-play of the games.
Hot off the presses (so to speak), the Dynamo have announced a 16-game local Spanish language
television broadcast deal with MultiMedios. MultiMedios had local Dynamo coverage from 2006-2009
and returns for the 2012 season to broadcast 16 games, all available in high definition.
Here's the press release on the deal:
HOUSTON, TX (Wednesday, February 8, 2012) -- The Houston Dynamo and Spanish-language television
partner MultiMedios Houston have reached a broadcast agreement for the 2012 season, it was
announced today.
Bob Bradley announced his 23-man roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup starting next month.
Ridge Mahoney writes of the return of Freddy Adu to the US team.
The recall of Freddy Adu and fresh starts for Robbie Rogers and
Sacha Kljestan provided the major surprises of Coach Bob
Bradley's 23-man Gold Cup roster.
Live first-team football AND the chance to win four fantastic prizes are on offer to subscribers
to the club's premium content service, LFC TV Online, during July as the countdown to the start of
the new Barclays Premier League season draws closer.
FoxSoccer.tv is offering a free 7-day trial of their service this week, just in time for the
Round of 16 games in the Champions League as well as several important Premier League and FA Cup
matches.
FoxSoccer.tv is Fox's broadband subscription site that allows you to watch live games on your
computer.
Fox Soccer Channel has released a new version of its Fox Soccer iPhone App. Version 1.1 of its
Fox Soccer iPhone App now allows those who have access to the FoxSoccer.tv broadband subscription
to view live games and watch video highlights on the mobile phone. Previously, FoxSoccer.tv
subscribers had to pay $7.
The first team might have no football because of the international break but this week we turn
our attentions to the stars of the future with two live games on LFC TV and LFC TV Online.
View the full story here: Liverpool FC
A news article on 2011-08-30 12:17:17 from: Liverpool FC
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
Richmond Kickers fans unable to make it to Richmond City Stadium for some of the upcoming 2012 USL
Pro season can still watch some Kickers games live.
United Soccer Leagues announce today that more than 80 live games from the 2012 USL PRO season will
be available online through USL Live, the popular online video destination launched in 2007 to make
USL matches more accessible to its fans.
Borussia Monchengladbach - Hamburg 2:30pm - GolTV On a usual slow Friday for live games, GolTV
brings us an interesting option from the Bundesliga. With all teams level on 22 games played,
'Gladbach trail Dortmund by three points at the top of the table. Hamburg are 7th, just out of the
European places and tied with 6th-place Bayer Leverkusen on points.
I would like to introduce to you an amazing website called Chelsea 2D.
"Inspired by the Nintendo World Cup game, I'm going to be creating an old school interpretation of
the modern day events at Chelsea Football Club. I won't be offering our highlights in 3D, I won't
be screening live games, but Chelsea2D.
Though their time on the field has come to an end, the Austin Aztex accomplished a lot this
year, and had tremendous success. And though they couldn't put together the scoreline they needed
last night, they went out in fine form, reminiscent of their peak this summer.
It was yet another beautiful evening for pro soccer at House Park.
