In a tribute to The Offside’s Daily Dose, here are several Premier League-related articles EPL Talk came across that we thought you may found interesting. Some of them are a little dated but still relevant. Enjoy.
A day in the life of football commentator Martin Tyler (Sky Sports).
Premier League fans in England paid an average of […]
Tags: Aston Villa · Atlantic City Press · Football Shirts · Fox Soccer Channel · Liverpool · Manchester City · Martin Tyler · New Tork Times · Reading · Setanta Sports · Sky Sports · Soccerlens · TV Rights · Telegraph · The Sun · True Colors
ESPN is interested in bidding for the TV rights to the Premier League according to a senior executive interviewed by The Financial Times.
The rights in question are the much coveted UK TV rights only. The American broadcaster is considering bidding for the rights in 2009, which will likely mean that the TV rights fees will […]
Tags: ESPN · Setanta Sports · Sky Sports · TV Rights
According to SportBusiness.com, Setanta Sports is considering bidding on the rights to the FA Cup and England internationals which will become available next month.
The FA is hoping the TV rights will sell for approximately $800 million. Currently Sky Sports and the BBC share the rights package, but in addition to Setanta Sports, NTL, Channel Five […]
Tags: BBC · England national team · FA Cup · Setanta Sports · Sky Sports · Sportbusiness.com · TV Rights
The Premiership announced yesterday record breaking TV rights deals around the world for the 2007/2008 through 2009/2010 seasons worth 2.7 billion GBP, which is $5.3 billion. This means more money will be spread amongst all of the teams next season with the title winner collecting at least $98 million, while the bottom place team will […]
The next leader of the Labour party in Britain, and therefore the next Prime Minister, is a huge football fan. That’s right, Scottish politician Gordon Brown is a Raith Rovers supporter who sold matchday programmes at the ground when he was younger, and followed Scotland during the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
I finally got a […]
Tags: Arsenal · England national team · FA Cup · Fox Soccer Channel · Liverpool · Setanta Sports · TV Rights
While it’s been common knowledge for a couple of weeks, Fox Soccer Channel officially announced today via press release that it has renewed the U.S. TV rights for the English Premier League through the 2009-2010 season.What’s interesting is that Fox will license the Spanish language rights in the U.S. to its sister channel Fox Sports […]
Tags: Fox Soccer Channel · Fox Sports En Espanol · Jamie Trecker · Setanta Sports · TV Rights
Excellent news for football fans in America. The Associated Press is reporting that ESPN and ABC have won the TV rights to Euro 2008 and will be broadcasting each game live.
Read the article in Forbes Magazine here.
While the thought of having ABC and ESPN crucify the matches through their idiotic commentary and studio analysis, I […]
Tags: ABC · ESPN · TV Rights · euro 2008
Oliver Tse, the creator of SoccerTV.com, wrote a revealing response to the Paul Gardner article I commented on the other day.
In Tse’s article, he mentions many of the same thoughts I had (in that it’s unfair to evaluate the Premiership based on just the matches that Fox Soccer Channel broadcasts). But what Tse does reveal […]
Tags: Fox Soccer Channel · Oliver Tse · SoccerTV.com · TV Rights
