BT TV boss confident ahead of Sky battle

Igloo - a joint venture 51 per cent owned by Sky TV and 49 per cent by Television New Zealand - offers 11 linear pay channels and provides a tuner for the free channels on Freeview. It includes available downloads from a library of about 1000 ...

Hard ball Sky Television has played brinksman before. But there was something shocking about the game of chicken it played to secure television rights to the 2013 New Zealand NRL rugby league competition. Sky says it secured a much lower price than ...

tschland has retained the German television rights to England's Premier League in a multi-year deal. The pay-TV broadcaster, which is also one of the domestic rights holders to the Bundesliga, will continue to show three live matches from the top ...

All Sky Television's channels are back on air after Chorus fixed a fault in a fibre-optic cable that knocked out 33 channels for more than three hours today. Sky said a digger in Puhoi broke a cable that carried the channels from its Albany ...

In a move taking it head-to-head with BSkyB, BT today announced the roll-out of its BT Sport service, which will offer a range of sports channels to its broadband customers. The best news comes for existing BT broadband customers, who will be able ...

BT (LSE: BT-A.L - news) made a surprise announcement today that it will make its new sport channels available at no extra cost to customers of BT broadband, seen as a direct threat to BSkyB (LSE: BSY.L - news) 's expensive subscription services to ...

A year ago I was extremely fortunate to commentate on the dramatic and historic moment when Manchester City grabbed the Barclays Premier League crown with virtually the last kick of the season. It was the kind of sporting fairy-tale which all ...

BT is threatening to lodge a formal complaint with Ofcom against rival Sky in the latest twist to a bitter fight over sports rights. At stake is access to the 154 Premier League matches to which Sky bought the TV rights last year. BT, which itself ...

MUMBAI: Sky Sports has been awarded the rights to the UK and Ireland qualification matches for Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup. The new agreement with Uefa provides Sky Sports with coverage of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and ...