12th Jul 2006 14:28
British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC12 July 2006 12 July 2006 Press release BSkyb Wins Mobile Rights To FA Premier League Partnership with news group will bring new mobile content to widest audience BSkyB has been awarded the mobile audio-visual rights to Barclays Premiershipfootball in a three-year deal starting August 2007. The bid was made inpartnership with News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun and News of theWorld, who will jointly market and promote the new services. BSkyB will now be able to offer mobile phone users action from all 380 BarclaysPremiership matches played in each of the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-2010seasons. As well as highlights of every game, this service will include thechance to see clips of goals and key moments while certain games are inprogress. Full details of the new service will be announced at a later date. Stephen Nuttall, Director of Business Development at BSkyB said: "Sky has nowsecured TV, online and mobile rights to the Premiership and can promise thewidest range of services and the most flexible ways of viewing across multipleplatforms. With these new rights, Sky can offer Premiership football on themove. Fans can look forward to using their mobile to keep up to date with allthe Premiership action." Sky Sports already supplies text and video content to all mobile networks in theUK & Ireland. Services include updates from Sky Sports News and post-matchinterviews with Premiership football managers. Sky Sports News is available liveas part of the Sky Mobile TV package and Sky Sports streamed live coverage ofthe 2006 Coca-Cola League Play-Offs. In May BSkyB was awarded the live broadcast rights to four packages of livePremiership rights; a total of 92 live matches per season from the start of the2007-08 campaign. Later that month BSkyB was awarded further Premiership rights;to four packages of live matches in the Republic of Ireland and near-live rightsto 242 matches per season in the UK. For further information: Press: Robert Fraser Tel: 0207 705 3036 [email protected] Chris Haynes Tel: 0207 705 3905 [email protected] Analysts / investors: Andrew Griffith Tel: 0207 705 3118 [email protected] Robert Kingston Tel: 0207 705 3726 [email protected] This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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