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Foreign Satellite TV

Despite the conclusion of the long-running Karen Murphy satellite TV case, licensees await a definitive ruling on copyright and its implications for broadcasting live football. Keep up-to-date with proceedings here.

Staffs licensee has foreign satellite conviction quashed

28-Mar-2011 - A licensee has had his conviction for screening Premier League football via a foreign satellite system quashed by the High Court. In March last year,...

Pub boost: World Cup remains free-to-air

18-Feb-2011 - The European Court of Justice rules that the World Cup and European Championships will remain on TV for free.

Record fine over pub Premier League internet screenings

17-Feb-2011 - A father and son have received a record fine for screening Premier League football matches at 11 pubs via the internet.

Sunderland hosts plan to shop foreign sat screenings

15-Feb-2011 - A group of Sunderland licensees has raised the idea of forming a "crime-watch group" to shop pubs that screen foreign satellite football. That's according to...

Quinn 'despises' foreign sat screenings

14-Feb-2011 - Sunderland Football Club chairman Niall Quinn has attacked the use of foreign satellite systems to show football in pubs. In a strongly-worded attack, Quinn said...

Pub's soccer fine despite ECJ deliberations

10-Feb-2011 - Magistrates have refused to adjourn a prosecution for foreign satellite football screenings at a Humberside pub pending the European ruling.

Foreign satellite football: key questions answered

09-Feb-2011 - John Harrington reports on what the opinion of the EU advocate general last week means for pubs.

Football ruling could boost pubco coffers

07-Feb-2011 - The freeing up of football screening rights could increase profits for major pubcos by up to 3.5% and benefit tenanted and freehouse pubs in particular. ...

Murphy case: boost for foreign satellite

04-Feb-2011 - The advocate general of the European Court of Justice has voiced support for the use of foreign satellite football systems, saying that the use of...

Coulson: major blow to FAPL and Sky

03-Feb-2011 - MA legal expert Peter Coulson gives his view on the opinion handed down by the advocate general on the use of foreign satellite systems.

100 pubs face foreign satellite prosecutions

03-Feb-2011 - Licensees at around 100 pubs are to be included in the latest tranche of prosecutions for foreign satellite football screenings, with "significantly more to follow". ...

Punch trials 3D projectors

02-Feb-2011 - Punch Taverns is claiming a first by trialing 3D projectors for screening football at its managed pubs. The projectors, from technology firm LG, will be...

New satellite football warning for pubs

31-Jan-2011 - Albania-based Tring TV is the latest foreign broadcaster to issue a warning to UK licensees who use its decoder cards.

Novasports will pull plug on UK pub TV

29-Nov-2010 - The Greek broadcaster behind Novasports has warned it will pull the plug on screenings of Premier League football via its systems in UK pubs. Forthnet...

Haye v Harrison in pubs on 3D

11-Nov-2010 - The Battle of Britain boxing slug fest between David Haye and Audley Harrison will be shown on Sky 3D this Saturday. The World title fight...

G4S inspects Sky Italia cards in pubs

11-Nov-2010 - Sky Italia is paying international security firm G4S to check if pubs are using its cards to broadcast Premier League football, the Morning Advertiser has...

Murphy case reaches Europe: update

05-Oct-2010 - The eagerly awaited landmark Karen Murphy foreign satellite football case reaches Europe today — and there is some support given to the arguments in favour...

Pubs upbeat on Sky 3D despite domestic roll-out

01-Oct-2010 - Licensees are confident that pubs screening Sky 3D TV won't suffer despite a domestic roll-out of the service. More than 1,500 pubs signed up for...

Foreign satellite solicitor's £38K bill over appeal

22-Sep-2010 - A solicitor has agreed to pay £38,000 in legal costs after an appeal over a licensee's conviction was abandoned.

Sky Sports to show Masters in 3D

22-Sep-2010 - The US Masters at Augusta National Golf Club will now be shown in 3D on Sky Sports next year. Sky will also have coverage of...

Sky Deutschland warns UK pub users

07-Sep-2010 - Sky Deutschland has warned UK lpubs that anyone using its cards to screen Premier League football risks having them turned off without notice.

Host loses licence for soccer screenings

13-Aug-2010 - A licensee has been stripped of his personal licence for screening foreign satellite football. Paul Moule, who had a previous conviction for the offence, was...

Football crackdown nets 212 pubs

06-Aug-2010 - More than 200 licensees have been prosecuted for screening football in their pubs using domestic Sky cards lats season.

Debate rages on Sky fee hikes

04-Aug-2010 - The size of Sky's price rises have been questioned by operators who say their average increases are roughly twice the level stated by the broadcaster. ...

Fuller's boss: Sky rises are incomprehensible

04-Aug-2010 - Fuller's managing director elect Simon Emeny hits out at the recent Sky rises, claiming it is jeopardising its long term relationship with the trade.