Premier League

Confusion over TV sport rules

13-Apr-2006

Licensees are being told not to take at face value claims that it is now legal to show football via foreign satellite systems.Letters have been sent...

Prosecutions for use of foreign satellites to continue

30-Mar-2006

Prosecutions of licensees who use foreign satellites to screen football will continue - despite a pub winning its case against the Premier League....

S&NUK's great pints and punts give-away

23-Mar-2006 By John Harrington

Pubs will get to give away £10,000 of free bets each during the World Cup in a £50m promotion from brewer Scottish & Newcastle UK. Billed as...

Licensee beats FA in closed period battle

09-Mar-2006 By Tony Halstead

FA Premier League suffers rare court defeat over a pub screening of Premiership football

Satellite firms stop ads for illegal soccer games

16-Feb-2006 By John Harrington

Rogue satellite companies that offer live Premiership football are no longer advertising Saturday afternoon 'closed-period' games in their marketing...

Row over 'closed period' football screenings

25-Jan-2006

A Newcastle licensee has attacked football chiefs for allowing one city bar to show live matches on Saturday afternoons. No pubs are permitted to...

Pubcos challenge FA over TV football ban

08-Dec-2005

Hosts go to court as Spirit Group and Greene King question the legality of Saturday 'closed period' by John Harrington Around 100 Spirit Group and...

TV footie infringement earns host a hefty fine

01-Dec-2005

by John Harrington A Bolton host has become the first this season to be fined for showing live Premiership football during the Saturday afternoon...

Sky heading for footy defeat

27-Oct-2005

Sky looks set to lose its monopoly on Premier League football as the European Commission (EC) considers new plans for the division of TV rights. The...

Sky rivals threaten Premier League

25-Oct-2005

Potential rival bidders have threatened to pull out of the next auction for live Premier League football unless Sky's dominance is ended.The threats...

Crackdown on illegal TV football broadcasts

20-Oct-2005

by Tony Halstead Evidence has emerged of the dramatic scale of the crackdown on illegal football broadcasts at pubs this season. Media Protection...

An end to Sky's 'monopoly'?

19-Oct-2005

An end to Sky's stranglehold on live televised sport moved a step closer last week after Premier League chiefs met with the European Competition...

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...

What the Sunday papers said

18-Sep-2005

The government appeared to be watering down its proposals to allow pubs and clubs to open around the clock. Following a major Cabinet revolt the Mail...

EC - Sky must loosen grip on Premier games

15-Sep-2005

by John Harrington The European Commission (EC) is to send the FA Premier League a statement of objections to Sky's dominance of live football. The...

Sky 'alternatives' are not legal

08-Sep-2005

I make no apologies for returning to the subject of pub screenings of Premiership football and the like, because my postbag is still full of...

Open late to watch Khan

08-Sep-2005

After a busy weekend of Premiership football action and an entertaining, intriguing final qualifying round of European rugby in the Heineken Cup, all...

Sky profit up 34% as costs fall

11-Aug-2005

British Sky Broadcasting has boosted operating profits by 34% to £805m as the cost of sports fell by £56m to £747m. Sports costs, which account...

Are top flight professional soccer players overpaid?

11-Aug-2005

Anita Adams The Golden Slipper, York 'Yes, they are overpaid and probably under-worked. If they earn their pay, fair enough, but I think these...

Football preview: Premiership matches

29-Jul-2005

Live Premiership matches on Sky during 2005August Sunday 141.30pm Arsenal v Newcastle Utd4pm Wigan Athletic v ChelseaSunday 211.30pm Bolton Wanderers...

The reality of marketing

21-Jul-2005

With big drinks brands among the leading players tied into sports sponsorship, we look at what those link-ups can actually mean to hard-pressed...

The football factor

21-Jul-2005

With the new football season just around the corner, now is the time for licensees to think about the impact the beautiful game c an have on their...

Pubs warned not to show Saturday afternoon matches

13-Jul-2005

Licensees are being warned to be wary of companies which claim to be able to supply Saturday afternoon games legally.With the new football season...

1,000 pubs join cheap Sky claims TV supplier

07-Jul-2005

by John Harrington One thousand pubs could be receiving illegal screenings of Premiership football from just one equipment supplier for as little as...

Trade message to Sky: 'please show restraint'

23-Jun-2005

by Ewan Turney Licensees and pubcos have urged Sky to show restraint when it unveils new subscription rates later this year. For many licensees,...

Crystal Palace name relegated

09-Jun-2005

The Eldridge Pope-owned Crystal Palace pub in Bath is to be renamed the Albion following a suggestion from area manager Derrick Smith. The West Brom...

Exploding the myths on TV soccer

05-May-2005

I need to set the record straight once again on the question of screening football matches in the bar. This is because two separate issues are being...

Licensees join fight to tackle pirate TV footy

28-Apr-2005

by Tony Halstead Licensees are helping soccer bosses win their battle against pirate TV screenings of Premier-ship football. More than 50 calls are...

Crackdown on pubs showing illegal TV

24-Mar-2005

The Premier League has launched a crackdown on pubs screening illegal Saturday afternoon matches in the north east. The news comes after Craig Shaw,...

Sky to offer half-price Premiership Plus

24-Nov-2004

Sky is slashing the price of its Premiership Plus pay-per-view service for pubs by 50 per cent from December 3. The announcement follows complaints...

50% discount on Prem Plus infuriates hosts

18-Nov-2004

by The PMA Team and John Harrington Satellite broadcaster Sky has been offering some licensees a massive 50% discount on a Prem Plus subscription....

BBC's new goal

17-Nov-2004

Sky's domination of sport in pubs faces some new competition - from the oldest kid on the block. Tom Sandham reports.Witnessing Garth Crooks barking...

Prem Plus fixtures are just getting worse'

11-Nov-2004

Further to the debate on Sky's pricing ("Reaching for the Sky", Morning Advertiser, 4 November) I have seen my Sky subscription bill rise from...

Sky kicks back

21-Oct-2004

Every year hoards of outraged licensees contact The Publican declaring they are cancelling their Sky contract because of price hikes. This year they...

Pub auction raises thousands for charity

15-Oct-2004

A licensee has raised an amazing £8,457 for a local hospice during a one-night charity auction.Bill Dobson, licensee at the Queens Head in...

ScotCo in £4m San Miguel identity boost

16-Sep-2004

by Dizziana Rossi Scottish Courage is pumping £4m into a new marketing push for San Miguel. A multi-media campaign running across cinema screens,...

Licensee fined for illegal football screening

15-Sep-2004

A licensee has been punished for illegally showing Premier League football with a satellite decoder.Stephen Seager of the Anchor Inn in Chelmsford,...

Budweiser kicks off mag campaign

12-Aug-2004

Budweiser is running a bumper package of advertising in this month's anniversary edition of football magazine Four Four Two. The deal includes the...

Premiership Preview: On the ball

30-Jul-2004

You know what it costs - but here's exactly what Sky's football coverage offers.Barclays PremiershipLive football will enter a new league in the...

Foul play from Sky

23-Jun-2004

Due to hiked up prices, some licensees are unable to keep their Sky subscriptions and lack of football is causing custom to drop. Tom Sandham takes a...

Outrage over Sky fee rise

21-Jun-2004

Sky is set to cause outrage among licensees by hiking its annual subscription charge for Premiership football by 18 per cent. The move by the...

Football legal loophole closed

03-Jun-2004

A licensee cleared of illegally broadcasting football could be the last to escape punishment.Janet Kenny, licensee of the Dog and Partridge pub in...

OFT closes case on Sky

02-Apr-2004

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has closed its investigation into Sky's pricing policy in a move which has outraged licensees and pub operators.The...

Play by the rules

25-Feb-2004

In an effort to clear up confusion over football screening, Adam Withrington puts your questions to Raymond Hoskin of copyright watchdog FACT.Last...

Trade cautious over Sky decision

18-Dec-2003

The trade has given a cautious welcome to the news that Sky TV's monopoly on live Premiership football has been broken.Earlier this week the European...

Sky loses football rights

17-Dec-2003

Sky TV has lost its monopoly of live Premiership football matches, after intervention by the European Commission (EC).From next season Sky will...

EC looking for shorter live football deals

10-Dec-2003

European commissioner Mario Monti has hinted he wants to see Sky's three-year live television football deal reduced to one year.It is well known that...

EC Sky decision expected 'shortly'

04-Dec-2003

Speculation is rising that the European Commission (EC) is about to break up the monopoly of football between the Premier League and Sky.Last week a...

League gets tough on TV footy cheats

13-Nov-2003

The Premier League is to step up its campaign against pubs illegally screening live Saturday afternoon soccer with a tranche of new prosecutions...

ALMR given second chance to attack Sky

13-Nov-2003

The Office of Fair Trading is nearing the end of its investigation into the Association of Licensed Mul-tiple Retailers' complaint about BSkyB's...