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In 2012, ESPN began losing many of its signature sport properties (including the Premier League) to BT Group and its forthcoming BT Sport service. On 25 February 2013, ESPN announced that it would exit the UK and Ireland market and sell its television operations to BT Group, which integrated the network into BT Sport upon its launch that August. The channel continued to operate under the ESPN ...
The Premier League was created "to prevent the top clubs from losing income to the lower leagues", but also served the purpose of maximising the clubs' bargaining position for when the next television contract was up for renewal. [3] ITV held exclusive rights to live Football League matches, having paid £44 million over a four-year period (1988–1992). [4] The arrangement came after the ...
Lucy Ward (born 15 April 1974 [2]) is a former English footballer who since 2007 has been a co-commentator for broadcasters such as BT Sport, BBC, Talksport, Channel 4 and Sky Sports working on women's and men's football. She has worked on World Cups and Olympic Games, and recently worked for Prime Video and BT Sport on Premier League games. As a footballer she played as a forward.
Premier Sports holds exclusive live rights to La Liga, Scottish League Cup, Elite Ice Hockey League, NHL and NASCAR. Premier Sports has shared rights to the United Rugby Championship in the UK and exclusive live rights to 53 Premier League games on Premier sports in the Republic of Ireland. They also hold shared rights to the Scottish Cup with BBC Scotland .
This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football .
Peter Drury. Peter Donald Drury (born 24 September 1967) is a British sports commentator who currently works for Sky Sports and NBC Sports in the United States as the lead commentator for its Premier League and EFL Cup coverages. Drury was formerly with ITV Sport as its second-choice football commentator, a role he had held from 1998 to 2013.
Setanta Sports Media is a sports television company based in Dublin, Ireland and in Tbilisi, Georgia, broadcasting throughout select Eurasian countries, and the Philippines.
Paul Andrew Francis Dempsey (born 16 March 1960) is a British TV and radio sports presenter and commentator now chiefly employed by TNT Sports where he covers football and boxing coverage, as well as TV host and commentary on Indonesian Djarum 's multiplatform Mola TV. After 18 years working for Sky Sports and 7 with the Dublin-based channels of Setanta Sports, Dempsey was signed by BT Sport ...