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By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2013
Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured the rights to show Premier League ‘near-live’ clips (as they call them) from all its [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged barcelona, bskyb, manchester united, Mike Darcey, mobile rights, near-live clips, news corporation, News International, Premier League, real madrid, Rupert Murdoch
By Staff on November 20, 2012
It looks like it’s giving it a damn good go with news emerging that the former UK state-owned telephone supplier is planning two new pay sports channels for football and rugby plus a third for one-off pay-per-view matches, an offer that could blow a whole in BSkyB’s Sky sports business model (and, indeed, BT’s own). [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged bskyb, BT, espn, Jeremy Darroch, Premier League, sky, sky sports
By Stephen Foster on July 13, 2012
Former England football captain John Terry was acquitted today in a magistrate’s court (not a criminal court) of calling rival footballer Anton Ferdinand a “fucking black cunt.” Terry’s defence was that Ferdinand had used these words to him and Terry had repeated them back to him, with satirical intent. Now if you believe this you’ll [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Anton Ferdinand, BT, court case, football association, John Terry, Premier League, racist language, sky
By Stuart Smith on July 4, 2012
The Premier League just doesn’t get it, does it? The world is crashing around Barclays’ ears, its chief executive Bob Diamond has just been forced to step down by the Governor of the Bank of England, its chairman Marcus Agius will be exiting in the coming months, and Bob’s top team of investment bankers will [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged barclays, Bob Diamond, Premier League, scandal, sponsorship deal, Wayne Rooney
By Angie Dean on April 12, 2011
Say what you like about David Beckham (and we get more Becks these days than we did when he was playing in the Premier League or for Real Madrid) he still has oodles of boyish charm and a great right foot. This is an outtake apparently from a new Pepsi shoot that’s taking YouTube by [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News | Tagged David Beckham, outtake, Pepsi, Premier League, real madrid, viral, Youtube
By Angie Dean on February 4, 2011
According to the accepted wisdom British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB has made its big investments in programme rights (particularly football), technology (HD and 3-D) and marketing (ten million customers) and all that’s left is for it to count the money. Which is why Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is happy (well fairly happy) to spend somewhere north [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged advocate general, bskyb, european court of justice, football rights, Greece, Juliane Kokoff, Karen Murphy, news corporation, portsmouth, Premier League, pub landlady, sky
By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2010
You really couldn’t make it up. A poultry producer from India called Venky’s has just bought Premier League club Blackburn Rovers for £47m (have they received the money yet?) fired the capable manager Sam Allardyce and announced that they intend to be in the top six of the Premiership without spending any more money. Rao [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged Anurandha Desai, blackburn rovers, Kentaro, Kris Boyd, Peter Scudamore, Premier League, Sam Allardyce, venky's
By David O'Reilly on July 6, 2010
Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur are reported to be looking for a different shirt sponsor for every competition they are in next season. Apparently chairman Daniel Levy has come up with the idea because no one brand is willing to pay the £10 million he wants for an exclusive deal with a sole sponsor appearing on [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Champions League, Harry Redknapp, League Cup, Playstation, Premier League, Spurs, tv
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