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(12-12-2022, 07:58 PM)Rdd Wrote: Not sure it’s been mentioned here but BoxNation closes on Wednesday, it’s been a zombie channel for months with its last live boxing having been back in April (and to be honest what little live boxing it had in the couple of years before was simulcast on Premier Sports), though it did get a bit of use for UEFA Nations League overspill.
Viaplay seems to have picked up their programming.
BoxNation used to come with a BT Sport subscription, not sure if it's still the case. Some events were simulcast with BT Sport.
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(13-12-2022, 07:53 PM)dvboy Wrote: (12-12-2022, 07:58 PM)Rdd Wrote: Not sure it’s been mentioned here but BoxNation closes on Wednesday, it’s been a zombie channel for months with its last live boxing having been back in April (and to be honest what little live boxing it had in the couple of years before was simulcast on Premier Sports), though it did get a bit of use for UEFA Nations League overspill.
Viaplay seems to have picked up their programming.
BoxNation used to come with a BT Sport subscription, not sure if it's still the case. Some events were simulcast with BT Sport.
Premier/Viaplay have operated the channel since 2019 when the original operators were liquidated - however, it stayed in BT packages until last month when the Viaplay rebrand happened.
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Further to previous reports, it was confirmed today that tennis' US Open will move from Amazon Prime Video back to Sky Sports from next year in a five year deal. Sky say they will show all courts like Prime have done. For tennis viewers this is likely to be bad news for most with Sky Sports being far more costly than Prime, though it is reported both tours will be on Sky as well from 2024.
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The E.W. Scripps Company is entering the regional sports TV race, bringing back local teams placed into the paywall due to the regional sports networks deals into broadcast television, leveraging its Local Media stations and the Ion network.
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(15-12-2022, 08:54 PM)RhysJR Wrote: Further to previous reports, it was confirmed today that tennis' US Open will move from Amazon Prime Video back to Sky Sports from next year in a five year deal. Sky say they will show all courts like Prime have done. For tennis viewers this is likely to be bad news for most with Sky Sports being far more costly than Prime, though it is reported both tours will be on Sky as well from 2024.
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This is a bummer announcement. Prime successfully made tennis coverage more accessible to UK viewers, mainly because its inclusion on the core Prime pack, but additionally helped Amazon learn of the initial experiences it had when streaming coverage (e.g. the faulty streams, lacking live coverage of supplementary rounds and courts...), and also helped them to build further response by viewers and Prime subscribers when they got additional sport rights.
The other things is that Sky is investing a lot on trying to get the most of sport rights after the Comcast acquisition, given they can flex the most of key rights acquisitions by sharing some of them with NBC (its sister partner) and ESPN. Given Sky already provides an F1 feed to ESPN, we could see them collaborating in some way for this, whilst retaining, in some degree, its own local coverage (given most of Amazon's presenters came from the former Sky deal, they could return to do the same this time).
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I wonder who will buy the rights. Could be one or more Pl teams involved.
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(12-12-2022, 06:20 PM)Medianext.MX Wrote: Andrew Marchand's subscription-based sports media newsletter for the New York Post (yep, it might not be the most reputed source, but its sports section is quite decent) has got a scoop on two of the reasons of the delay on the Apple TV-NFL deal for Sunday Ticket: they wanted it to merge it into Apple TV+ to attract a bigger audience and more subscriptions to the streamer, but the NFL wants to be sold separately at a premium price to avoid the broadcast networks to lose revenue and ratings.
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Update... Puck News' media analyst Dylan Byers and The Athletic's sports business analyst Daniel Kaplan are reporting Apple is out of negotiations over the global streaming rights limitations imposed by the NFL. Google (YouTube TV) is now the frontrunner to get the rights, but Prime Video is also trying to grab them:
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Just to note, the Sunday Ticket rights on offer (currently held by DirecTV) were only for the US. There are some other countries in the Americas where Sunday Ticket is available.
In Europe and some other regions a separate streaming only service called NFL GamePass International effectively does the same job as Sunday Ticket, it’s much cheaper and with less restrictions. In the U.K. and Ireland the only restriction is that the 6:00pm and 9:05/9:25pm games selected for broadcast on Sky are blacked out. It’s also the only (legal) way to see the famous US Super Bowl adverts here, as it shows the full US network presentation.
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(07-12-2022, 10:42 PM)Rdd Wrote: Yeah, that’ll be the next thing and it’ll be interesting to see if there’s any studio coverage that day
Just to update on this, St Stephen’s Day schedules are now up on the Sky EPG and while Premier is showing 5 of the 7 FAPL ties on their front channels (the other two likely to be on red button) all coverage is “whistle to whistle” if the schedules are anything to go by (coverage starting at 5 minutes to kick off). The selected games are (on Premier 1) Brentford v Tottenham, Leicester v Newcastle, Villa v Liverpool, Arsenal v West Ham and (on Premier 2) Everton v Wolves.
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(20-12-2022, 12:55 PM)Rdd Wrote: (07-12-2022, 10:42 PM)Rdd Wrote: Yeah, that’ll be the next thing and it’ll be interesting to see if there’s any studio coverage that day
Just to update on this, St Stephen’s Day schedules are now up on the Sky EPG and while Premier is showing 5 of the 7 FAPL ties on their front channels (the other two likely to be on red button) all coverage is “whistle to whistle” if the schedules are anything to go by (coverage starting at 5 minutes to kick off). The selected games are (on Premier 1) Brentford v Tottenham, Leicester v Newcastle, Villa v Liverpool, Arsenal v West Ham and (on Premier 2) Everton v Wolves.
St Stephen’s Day? A while since I’ve heard Boxing Day referred to as that.
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Sorry, the 26th is St Stephen’s Day over here, officially at least (Boxing Day is used to an extent informally, particularly in counties bordering Northern Ireland, and to an extent in Dublin).
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