Chelsea and Hull first up on Sky
09-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Details of the first Premier League games to be broadcast by Sky next season have been released. The first fixture on Saturday August 15 will see...
26-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Media watchdog Ofcom is to open talks with the FA Premier League over the distribution of TV rights as part of its investigation into the pay-TV...
Watchdog investigates premium TV sports
26-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Broadcast watchdog OFCOM wants Sky to share its premium sports services with other channels to give consumers more choice. The plans - which...
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.
15-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Pubs could benefit from the sale of some Premier League football rights for next season if Setanta fails to pay up. The embattled broadcaster holds...
08-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
A Northumberland licensee is appealing a conviction for showing Premier League football matches via a non-EU based foreign satellite. The appeal by...
04-Jun-2009 By Peter Coulson
The copyright chasers for users of foreign satellite systems are still very much in business, says Peter Coulson.
'One in four pubs pull out of Sky deals'
14-Jan-2009
According to the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR), a quarter of UK pubs have cancelled their Sky subscription. Sky generates an...
Adam Withrington: Don't break the closed period
01-Dec-2008
Ok put this in your pipe and smoke it. I have a major problem with licensees showing football on foreign satellite systems on a Saturday afternoon....
Watching it unfold
26-Nov-2008 By James Wilmore
In the last few years we've heard a lot about a company called Media Protection Services (MPS) in relation to foreign satellite screenings. This is...
Foreign satellite footy: should it be legal?
26-Nov-2008
'Yes' by Paul DixonAccording to the FA Premier League's (FAPL's) own accounts, its principal activity is to manage the Premier League competition and...
Window of opportunity?
26-Nov-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Depending on your point of view foreign satellite TV suppliers are either cowboy operators out to make a quick buck from desperate licensees or the...
21-Nov-2008 By John Harrington
The Premier League says it would be "pointless" bringing new prosecutions for foreign satellite screenings at pubs until after the landmark legal...
24-Oct-2008 By Tony Halstead
Trade groups have expressed concern about a decision to offer soccer fans free beer at last weekend's Bolton Wanderers v Blackburn match.
30-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Sky should be forced to offer its premium content, including Premier League football, to its rivals at regulated wholesale prices. That is the view...
22-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Multiple operators have to sell around 25,000 extra pints over the course of a season to cover the cost of a Sky subscription. The Association of...
'Pubs must sell 25,000 extra pints to pay for Sky'
22-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
Sky has come under fresh attack over research claiming some pubs have to sell 25,000 extra pints over the football season to cover the cost of a...
Smooth Premier League deal for Marston's
15-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Marston's is set to mark the start of the Premier League season by unveiling a deal with one of its newest arrivals. The brewer has announced a three...
New warning over satellite football
07-Aug-2008
Licensees have been warned on the eve of the new Premiership season to be wary of satellite companies that claim to offer better deals than Sky. John...
BSkyB posts £127m loss
31-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has posted a £127m loss for the year to the end of June 2008.The TV and telecoms giant said turnover had risen nine...
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...
17-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Premier League will have to drop foreign satellite prosecutions if the European Court of Justice rules no geographical restrictions apply to their use but Premier League vows prosecutions will continue.
Football Preview: Sky making it a rich man's game
17-Jul-2008
Like sir Alex Ferguson moaning at the ref and sports journalists bemoaning the scarcity of English talent, licensees' anger at Sky's prices come the...
Football Preview: Fantasy footfall
16-Jul-2008
The inspired Skinner and Baddiel TV show Fantasy Football League may not be on telly any more but that hasn't stopped the game around which the...
Murphy case could carry on after Europe
16-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
A landmark High Court foreign satellite appeal could drag on even after the matter has been heard in Europe. The full ruling from the second part of...
WKD plans footie-related pub kits
10-Jul-2008
Beverage Brands will be offering licensees the chance to receive football-related pub kits, downloads and offers for its WKD brand in the run-up to...
Sky freezes price of sports packages
10-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Sky has announced a price freeze on its sports packages which could provide a boost to licensees struggling to make ends meet. Letters have been sent...
It's squeaky bum time
07-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Much as I'm loathe to quote my least favourite football manager, Sir Alex Ferguson's description of the closing weeks of a Premiership football...
Tread warily as copyright case goes into extra time
03-Jul-2008
The battle over pub football continues! Somewhat surprisingly, given the rather dismissive comments of Lord Justice Pumfrey in the first part of this...
Satellite battle drags on
26-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
European Court move could take two years The legal battle between the Premier League and two foreign satellite suppliers has been referred to the...
26-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Karen Murphy case referred to the European Court of Justice
24-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
High Court judge refers the landmark case against suppliers to Europe
Foreign satellite football case goes to Europe
24-Jun-2008 By James Wilmore
The issue of foreign satellite football will now be heard in the courts of Europe, it was ruled today. In the High Court test case involving two...
20-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Massive week ahead in the great debate as Murphy II gets underway
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29-May-2008
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Two Newcastle pubs raided for foreign satellite equipment
15-May-2008 By James Wilmore
Foreign satellite equipment was seized from two Newcastle pubs yesterday, following raids by police and trading standards officers. The Bluebell in...
12-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Blackpool trading standards seized foreign satellite equipment from six pubs last week
Bolton hoping for great escape
01-May-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
Bolton's chances of starting next season in the Premiership looked slim after recent defeats by Wigan and Aston Villa, but they have managed to...
Foreign TV cards threat to football
24-Apr-2008 By MA Reporter
Quality of English football "will suffer" Use of cards causing conflict between pubs Foreign satellite cards used by pubs "threaten the lifeblood of...
Foreign satellite suppliers give evidence in the High Court
23-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore
Two suppliers of foreign satellite equipment today appeared in the High Court to give evidence in a case being brought against them by the Premier...
First licensee gives evidence in foreign satellite case
22-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore
The first licensee has given evidence in a High Court clash between the Premier League and foreign satellite suppliers. Tom Wallis, licensee of the...
21-Apr-2008
Pubs have not been the only ones using foreign satellite cards, High Court hears
21-Apr-2008
Foreign satellite cards "threaten the lifeblood of English football" according to the Premier League (PL). The claim came at a landmark legal battle...
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...
Decoders are a 'rip-off'
17-Apr-2008
Pubs sold foreign decoders for screening Premier League football are victims of "an old-fashioned rip-off," London's High Court was told. The claim...
15-Apr-2008
High Court hears claims that foreign satellite decoder cards are a rip-off
Scots pub ordered to stop using foreign satellite gear
10-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore
A third Scottish licensee has been ordered by a judge to stop showing live Premier League football using foreign satellite equipment. Lord Drummond...
When Arsène met Alex...
10-Apr-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
There aren't many teams that can argue with Manchester United's current case for the Premiership title — or even for the Champions League. If last...
Ramos aims for English spurs
21-Feb-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
One London manager will secure his first piece of English silverware in Sunday's Carling Cup final. Juande Ramos's Tottenham booked their place in...
Sky wins legal cases
14-Feb-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Five licensees have been prosecuted this month for using domestic contracts to screen Sky football matches. One host had his personal licence...
