Up to 30 live Football Conference games could be screened by BT Sport next season, after the Non-League Paper reported that the new sports channel has agreed a six-figure deal to showcase the top flight of non-league football. read more
Sky Sports has added Ashes-winning England captain Andrew Strauss to its commentary team for the Investec Ashes series, beginning in July, as well as the winter tour to Australia from November. read more
talkSPORT has announced today that the world’s biggest sports radio station has achieved 2.9 million listeners for the first quarter of 2013 year, according to industry figures released by RAJAR. read more
Following the official launch of its new sports channels last week, BT has been announced as the founding partner of a major, new commercial programme for women's football in England. As part of the package BT's new BT Sport network will become the exclusive UK broadcaster of FA Women's Super League matches. read more
Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand has signed a three-year deal with BT Sport to become an interviewer, programme-maker and football expert for the new sport’s channel, which also launched its first advertising push on Wednesday featuring Ferdinand’s United team-mate Robin van Persie, as well as Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale and Manch… read more
BT Sport has announced full details of its new sport channels – set to launch this summer – with the channels available for free to existing BT broadband customers. read more
BT Sport has confirmed a three-year deal to broadcast the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the UK from August, adding to a portfolio of sports rights that already includes Barclays Premier League, Premiership Rugby and WTA. read more
Sky Sports will show the world's top tennis players for another five years after announcing two new deals, including Andy Murray's US Open grand slam defence at Flushing Meadows in August. read more
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IMG Sport Video Archive, a division of IMG Worldwide, is set to launch a new online platform allowing access to the world’s largest dedicated sports library, via the internet, for the first time. read more
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has announced a new partnership with digital marketing agency Purple to develop digital output in the run-up to the 2014 Sochi and 2016 Rio Olympic Games. read more
World Snooker has launched an official YouTube page designed to offer fans around the world a range of quality content in one location, in time for the Betfair World Championship, which started this weekend. read more
After 12 months of remarkable success for British Sport on and off the field, the BT Sport Industry Awards makes its long awaited return on Thursday night and this year everyone can follow the night through our first-ever live blog at www.BTSIAlive.biz. read more
Former England captain and current PSG midfielder David Beckham has agreed a new partnership with Sky, with the aim to inspire more people to become involved in sport. read more
There are just two weeks to go until the best work from across the sport industry is rewarded at the sector’s flagship event, the BT Sport Industry Awards 2013. read more
Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt is among 29 Olympic medallists, including 12 champions and four world record holders, who have so far been confirmed for the IAAF Diamond League at the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on the 26th to 28th July - one year on from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Games. read more
Rugby World Cup winners and former British and Irish Lions Richard Hill and Will Greenwood have spoken of the importance of strong leadership ahead of the Lions tour to Australia. Speaking at a Benchmark Talent Showcase Breakfast, the pair insisted that forming bonds between players who traditionally meet each other as rivals will be vital to th… read more
Rugby League World Cup 2013 organisers have announced that the BBC has secured rights to broadcast the tournament, showing live coverage of all England games on television and radio, starting with the Opening Ceremony featuring England v Australia. read more
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Reebok and Eurosport have joined forces for a second year running to produce a series of documentaries and live broadcasts centered around CrossFit, a fast growing strength and conditioning programme, and the CrossFit Games, the global competition to find the fittest man and woman on earth. read more
talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, has secured two Barclays Premier League packages for the next three football seasons, starting with 2013/14. read more
A peak audience of almost nine million viewers watched The John Smith’s Grand National yesterday on Channel 4 – the first time the broadcaster has covered the annual event. read more
Fishing, ping pong and pool are amongst the sports set for a huge boost in exposure, after Matchroom Sport - run by British sports promoter Barry Hearn – agreed new broadcast rights deal with Sky Sports for a number of events. read more
Tennis could become the latest sport to attempt its own version of cricket’s Twenty20 format, according to media reports. read more
YouTube and the RaboDirect PRO12 have unveiled the result of its new partnership, bringing highlights of games to rugby fans all over the world for the first time last weekend. read more
talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, has announced Liam Fisher as the company’s new programme director. Fisher has been with the company since 2000 most recently as head of production. read more
BoxNation, the subscription boxing channel, is set to broadcast this year’s upcoming fights involving Floyd Mayweather Jr and Amir Khan. read more
This week marked the 50 day countdown to the BT Sport Industry Awards ceremony and the moment when, on May 2nd, the UK sport industry will discover who has been crowned the best of the best of the past 12 months in front of 1,750 industry peers in a star-studded audience. read more
BT is continuing to build on the momentum of London 2012, after it was announced as the new title sponsor of the BT Great CityGames Manchester, which will see major Olympic and Paralympic champions competing in the city centre. read more
Sky Sports will take its partnership with the Professional Darts Corporation into a 25th year after signing a new five-year broadcast deal. The agreement gives Sky Sports viewers over 50 days of exclusive darts throughout the year including the Ladbrokes World Darts Championship each Christmas until 2018. read more
The Press Association has announced an agreement with Opta to become the only licensed UK re-seller of official football data for the four professional football leagues in the UK including the Premier League from next season. read more
The BBC has confirmed that it will broadcast Formula 1 practice sessions from the Grand Prix races it is covering this season, as part of its overall F1 package this year. read more
Bloomberg Sports has announced its BSports “Match Analysis” service, which currently provides data-driven projections of European football matches, will now give updated projections every minute during all matches in the five major European football leagues. read more
Eurosport Group and RCS Sport have announced the extension and enhancement of their long term partnership for an additional four years, which will see, for the first time, extended live production and broadcasting in High Definition on races including the Giro d’Italia. read more
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