Recent raids on pirate TV services across the UK and Europe

Recent raids on pirate TV services across the UK and Europe
Last week police forces in Spain, UK, and Denmark, carried out what is being described as the “largest ever” operation against a pirate IPTV network. Five people have been arrested, accused of crimes including IP violations,...

IPL UK rights: BT Sport to show every game in 2019

IPL UK rights: BT Sport to show every game in 2019
UK broadcaster BT Sport has secured rights to every match of the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament.
BT confirmed the deal via its official Twitter account just days after pay-TV rival Sky Sports revealed that it had...

FA Cup Semi Final UK TV Details, and BBCs FA Cup Broadcast Contract Extended

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 Watford v Wolverhampton Wanderers will take...

MBC secures broadcast rights for Formula One for MENA region

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 all stages of the tournament, including...

F1 2019. Some interesting details on the Sky and Channel 4 deal

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 qualifying and races.
However, some details have...

BBC Programme Guide Problems

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 in HD (the HD indicator is not...

Some UK and Spanish TV Sports rights news

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 and when there are some overlaps
UK Football...

BT Sport loses IndyCar rights

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 “Unfortunately it looks like IndyCar will not be on BT...

Subscription based BBC-ITV, dubbed "Britflix", Netflix rival due to be announced soon

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 ITV could be announced as soon as Wednesday,...

Loss of UK satellite TV signals in the morning? Its the biannual solar outage time

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 and normal this time of year.
The solar...