Stonegate Pub Company has become the first UK operator to team up with LaLigaTV – offering visitors to selected sites the chance to watch Messi, Modric and more.
JW Lees managing director William Lees-Jones gives his view on issues in the pub trade and confirms there are no plans to sell the brewery, following similar sales in the trade this year.
Mike Reed, operations director at Belle Pubs & Restaurants, explains how the Griffin Belle in Vauxhall, south London, has become a matchday mainstay for fans of Brazil's most supported club, Flamengo.
Both Greene King and Stonegate have invested in Amazon Premier League Pass, which will allow their pubs to broadcast the online giant’s Premier League matches during the Christmas period.
It’s not been the most encouraging entry to the market from Amazon with a dearth of information and a disappointing lack of transparency, says Matchpint co-founder Dom Collingwood.
Thanks to what Screach CEO Robert Rawlinson refers to as ‘the first-ever enterprise-grade streaming service to UK pubs’, can operators expect an alternative to satellite sports packages?
Broadcaster BT Sport and Bury St Edmunds-based pub operator and brewer Greene King have joined forces to revamp the Red Lion in the City of London in celebration of women’s football.
More sport fans wanted to watch England’s Rugby World Cup final against South Africa in a pub than England’s Russia 2018 World Cup football semi-final against Croatia – despite the former kicking off at 9am.
A Gloucestershire licensee has been ordered to pay more than £35,000 after he was found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreement.
Pubs will sell 1m extra pints during the Rugby World Cup final – but only if England win – according to a prediction from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).
