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Cycling

Cycling outfit Team Sky may have been handed a funding lifeline, amid uncertain prospects after UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky announced in December that it would be withdrawing its backing at the end of 2…
Football
Media

The Premier League going down in value? The unthinkable has happened. Frank Dunne investigates what happened, and whether the market is at a pivotal point where an old way of doing business can no longer be relied upon to deliver the necessary premiums.

Motorsport
Business

The Formula One motor-racing championship has hired Yath Gangakumaran, an executive with its UK broadcast rights-holder Sky Sports, as its global head of strategy.
Cycling
Sponsorship & Marketing

National governing body British Cycling tells Kevin Roberts about the attributes it is looking for in a new commercial partner.

Cycling
Business

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has increased its shareholding in Tour Racing Limited, the company that operates the Team Sky International Cycling Union (UCI) ProTour outfit, by an additional 25 per cent.

Golf
Events

The British Masters golf tournament will return to the European Tour’s international schedule for the first time in seven years in October.

Football
Media

The UK pay-television market delivered another sensational boost to English Premier League revenues yesterday with new live domestic media rights deals worth £5.136bn ($7.8bn/€6.9bn) over the three seasons from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
Media

The leading lights from UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky Sports’ channels are used to tackling the difficult questions around a weekend’s football action.

Rugby Union

European Rugby Cup (ERC), the organiser of the Heineken Cup, has deferred paying the latest instalment of participation money to the tournament’s clubs amid ongoing doubts about the future direction of the European rugby union competition.
Business

European sport publisher GiveMeSport has set its sights on overtaking Sky Sports’ online platform in the next six months.
Business

Barney Francis, Managing Director of the Sky Sports channels at UK pay- broadcaster BSkyB, talks to Kevin Roberts about partnerships, competition and the secret formula of Sky Sports’ success.