Premier League Football

Old rivalries renewed this weekend as football delivers red hot matches

09-Mar-2018 By Stuart Stone

The latest instalments of the two most heated, trophy laden, rivalries in British football play-out this weekend.

How ‘understanding the sports fan’ can boost pub sales

17-Jul-2017 By Georgina Townshend

What sports fans want from their pub experience is to be offered a mixture of sport, atmosphere, and something different to what they get at home, according to MatchPint’s co-founder Dominic Collingwood.

Sport

Premier League worth £30,000 to pubs every season

19-Dec-2016 By Liam Coleman

A major research project from MatchPint and CGA has investigated the value of a variety of sport to pub licensees.

Premier League

Suppliers of illegal football jailed and fined £1m

04-Oct-2016 By Oli Gross

Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football to pubs have been jailed and ordered to pay close to £1m.

TV Sport

Change to law on showing Premier League football in pubs

16-Jun-2016 By Mike Berry

A change to copyright law has clarified the situation for licensees on showing Premier League football in their pub.

Sky and BT Sport retain Premier League TV rights in £5.1bn deal

10-Feb-2015 By Mike Berry

Sky and BT Sport have retained the rights to Premier League football after details of the latest TV deal were revealed.

Manchester pub hit with £8,000 fine for Premier League football copyright breach

05-Nov-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A Manchester pub has been found guilty of breaching copyright law and ordered to pay the Premier League in excess of £8,000.

Licensee fined £65,000 for illegal Premier League football screening

14-Mar-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A Liverpool bar has been found guilty of infringing copyright law by broadcasting Premier League football using a foreign satellite channel, the High Court has ruled.

The Big Interview: David Rey, Sky Business

07-Feb-2014 By Mike Berry

David Rey tells Mike Berry how Sky supports pub businesses and about its aims to be the trade’s first choice entertainment partner.

Sky Business boss Holden to leave

28-Feb-2012

Iain Holden is to leave his role as managing director of Sky Business, the commercial division of the broadcaster that supplies Premier League football to pubs.

Hosts cleared in satellite footie case

05-Sep-2011 By Adam Pescod

Three Staffordshire licensees have been cleared of dishonestly screening live Premier League football matches via foreign satellite systems after a judge dismissed their cases.

Licensee facing fifth prosecution for showing foreign satellite football

01-Mar-2011 By Matt Eley Matt

A licensee is facing her fifth prosecution for showing Premier League football through a foreign decoder - but her lawyer is confident of another...

Record fine over pub Premier League internet screenings

17-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney

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

'BSkyB faces hit from 'landlady' football ruling'

04-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore

A legal ruling could revolutionise the way Premier League football and other sports rights are sold in Europe and may cost British Sky Broadcasting...

Albanian TV firm warns against footy decoder cards

31-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore

An Albanian satellite TV company has issued a warning against UK pubs over using its cards to show Premier League football. Tring TV, which has the...

Novasports will pull plug on UK pub TV

29-Nov-2010 By John Harrington

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

Satellite TV hosts win court victory

26-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Licensees using foreign satellite systems to screen football have recorded a 12-7 victory in the courts. But the man leading the prosecutions warned...

Pubs could suffer as 10m get access to Sky Sports

30-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney

Around 10m more people could have access to Sky Sports and Premier League football at home under a temporary deal announced yesterday. Sky reached...

ESPN snaps up Premier League football rights

23-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney

US-based broadcaster ESPN snaps up Premier League football rights from Setanta but things unlikely to change for pubs.

Footfall fever

17-Jul-2008

The start of the premiership season is just a few short weeks away, so its time to prepare for those match days to lift your takings into the next...

Illegal TV boss gets suspended sentence

17-Apr-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

Supplier is first to get such penalties The boss of a firm that supplied foreign satellite football systems to pubs has been given a 10-month...

Premier League ramps up pursuit of foreign satellites

04-May-2006

The FAPL has also confirmed it will be continuing to prosecute licensees with 145 cases pending against pubs who have shown Premier League football...

Sky faces challenge to dominance of sport

13-Oct-2005

Sky is facing a trio of challenges to its domination of sport on television.It is widely rumoured that the European Commission could be about to act...

Whyte & Mackay in £1m footy deal

04-Mar-2004

Whyte & Mackay, the Maxxium UK-owned whisky, is involved in a £1m sponsorship of Scottish Premier League football club Hibernian. The five-year...

What the Sunday papers said

14-Jul-2003

The Sunday TelegraphSky has made an audacious bid to secure exclusive rights to all live Premier League football games for the next four seasons....