FA Cup Semi Final UK TV Details, and BBCs FA Cup Broadcast Contract Extended Manchester City’s FA Cup semi-final against Brighton will be played on Saturday 6 April at 17:30 BST and broadcast live on the BBC. The other semi-final tie between Watf…
Continue reading →MBC secures broadcast rights for Formula One for MENA region The MBC Group has acquired five-year exclusive rights to the FIA Formula One race weekends. MBC will offer F1 racing free-to-air in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area. MBC will air …
Continue reading →F1 2019. Some interesting details on the Sky and Channel 4 deal Sky start the first year of their 5 year exclusive live deal for F1 on UK TV. Only the British Grand Prix will be shown live and free, on Channels 4. Channel 4 will show highlights of qual…
Continue reading →BBC Programme Guide Problems For the last few week, the BBC have been having problems with their programme guide data they send to Sky, Freesat and Freeview boxes. Amongst the problems : – BBC One HD and BBC Two HD not showing the programmes are …
Continue reading →Some UK and Spanish TV Sports rights news Indycar UK TV As reported yesterday, Sky Sports have the UK rights for the Indycar series, taking over from BT Sports Most races will be shown on Sky Sports F1, but perhaps on some other Sky Sports channels if …
Continue reading →BT Sport loses IndyCar rights BT Sport will not broadcast coverage of the IndyCar Series this season after losing the rights to the championship. BT Sport have covered Indycar since 2013. BT Sport Indycar commentator Tom Gaynor said “Unfortunatel…
Continue reading →Subscription based BBC-ITV, dubbed “Britflix”, Netflix rival due to be announced soon A BBC and ITV joint venture will see the launch of a subscription based on demand service for archive content, set to rival to Netflix from the BBC and IT…
Continue reading →Loss of UK satellite TV signals in the morning? Its the biannual solar outage time It’s that time of year again when you can lose your UK TV satellite signals for a few minutes mid morning. Don’t panic – it is the bi-annual sun outage…
Continue reading →Intelsat 907 (BBC Satback) at 27.5 West update Intelsat has updated their “Estimated End Of Life” expectancy for I907 to Q1 2020. IIRC the previous was Q4 2019. Looking at the document, it looks like a few other Intelsat satellites are due …
Continue reading →La Liga UK Rights…lost by Eleven Sports ? moves to Premier and ITV4 Premier Sports has confirmed it has acquired the Pay TV rights to show Spain’s La Liga, weeks after it secured the rights to show a number of international leagues previous…
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