Around The Industry

Pub landlady Karen Murphy wins TV football court case

By SVG Staff | Monday, February 27, 2012 - 07:42

BBC News:A pub landlady has won her court fight with the English Premier League over using a Greek TV decoder to show games. Karen Murphy has paid nearly £8,000 in […]  More

Eurosport returns to the piste with FIS rights deal

By SVG Staff | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 09:31

Sport Business: Eurosport and Infront Sports & Media have agreed terms on a rights extension that will continue to give the majority of the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) World Cup […]  More

Blackout watch: Local retrans fees are skyrocketing

By SVG Staff | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 08:30

Rapid TV News: Hot on the heels of several high-profile retransmission fee spats in the U.S., including one that threatened to black out the Super Bowl for Patriots fans in […]  More

Olympic win for Presteigne Charter

By SVG Staff | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 08:26

TVB Europe: Presteigne Charter is supplying kit and crew to two major overseas broadcast rights holders for Canada and Australia to the Olympic Games this summer.  More

Nostalgic FA Cup can’t fight new money

By SVG Staff | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 07:29

Trenchant opinion piece from Forbes.com  More

c£1M theft from CVP’s UK warehouse

By SVG Staff | Monday, February 20, 2012 - 08:27

CVP: “We’re disappointed to report that on Friday 17th February 2012 CVP became the victim of one of the industry’s largest thefts when a substantial quantity of cameras, camcorders, lenses […]  More

Al Jazeera Sport to launch two channels

By SVG Staff | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 10:32

Broadband TV News: Al Jazeera Sport is set to launch two channels in France in June. The broadcaster is also bidding for the Euro 2012 football rights.  More

Rangers FC signals administration move

By SVG Staff | Monday, February 13, 2012 - 20:57

BBC News: Rangers Football Club has confirmed it has filed legal papers at the Court of Session to appoint administrators.  More

It’s official – CFoot pulls the plug

By SVG Staff | Monday, February 13, 2012 - 20:55

Broadband TV News: The French football league LFP has accepted defeat: despite having acquired 330,000 paying subscribers for its terrestrial football channel CFoot, it will hand back the licence at […]  More

FIA outlines tender process for new WRC promoter

By SVG Staff | Monday, February 13, 2012 - 20:53

The Checkered Flag: After former WRC promoter North One Sport went into administration, and a deal to replace them with Eurosport lead to a dead end, the FIA have publicly announced the […]  More