MUMBAI: There is good news for football lovers. The American commercial broadcast television network, CBS, will be streaming at least four games of this season’s NFL...
MUMBAI: Qatar based network Al Jazeera has rebranded its sport channel from Al Jazeera Sport to beIN Sports. The move will see Al Jazeera Media...
MUMBAI: That Star India is betting big on sports is well-known. How big the bet it is placing is now becoming clear. The News Corp-owned media...
MUMBAI: Newcastle University academics have called for the government to consider restricting alcohol marketing during televised football matches after studying a selection of games and finding...
MUMBAI: Television networks and publishers are really getting on board with Twitter Amplify. In the second development of its kind during the last few days, ESPN...
NEW DELHI: As NFL fans gear up for football season, they will find an off-the-field distraction in “Football on Your Phone,” a new DirecTV spoof starring...
MUMBAI: The 65th Primetime Emmys telecast is still more than a month away but plans already are afoot for next year’s show. According to media...
MUMBAI: Times Mobile Limited has partnered, with Techfront, for their App – FollowOn which will provide a unique home experience to instadia fans at the Kotla...
MUMBAI: Reputed goalkeeper Brahmanand Shankhwalkar is all set to bring his real time soccer experiences on silver screen through a Marathi film titled Penalty. Produced by...
MUMBAI: The 12th edition of New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), scheduled to be held from 23 to 27 May, will pay a tribute to Dev...
MUMBAI: The cricket fan base in India is very homogeneous, making it easier for advertisers to address a mass nationwide reach. There is another deeper benefit...
MUMBAI: Harried by the CBFC last year when it banned his film Inshallah, Football, director Ashvin Kumar bypassed the Censors this time and released his latest...
MUMBAI: Bengali news channel Star Ananda will show football content to widen its audience base. The ABP-Star run channel has inked a deal with sports marketing...
MUMBAI: ESPN STAR Sports took to the streets in Singapore this week with an outdoor campaign featuring their English sports news presenters on wholly painted buses....
MUMBAI: European soccer body Uefa has announced the appointment of Gianni Infantino as its CEO ad interim following the resignation of Lars-Christer Olsson. The 36-year old...
MUMBAI: Football’s governing body Fifa has announced that its site is providing a host of features for the Fifa Club World Cup Japan 2006, which kicks...
Usually my Sunday afternoon siestas are broken by Barking Boxer. He lives in the building behind ours and his weekly treat is playing cricket with his...
Soccer mania is in the air! With the Fifa World Cup scheduled to kick off 9 June in Germany, news channels in India, both domestic and...
The heat is on! As 9 June inches closer, the decibel levels around the Fifa World Cup are definitely on the rise. In India, it is...
It was around January that the team at ESPN Software India, led by managing director RC Venkateish, decided to evolve a game plan encompassing marketing, promotion...
MUMBAI: Sports rights distributor Globo TV Sports, whose catalogue is 70 per cent football, debuts on the web. The site www.globotvsports.com includes updated information about football...
MUMBAI: The 2006 football World Cup in Germany represents an opportunity to promote 3G. However it will be established content, such as text-based services that will...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest sporting spectacles of this year the 2006 football World Cup takes place in Germany later this year. Discovery India, which airs...
MUMBAI: In a new trial project making use of 3G mobile telephone technology, UK pubcaster BBC has announced that its show Points West which airs on...
NEW DELHI: Glitz, glamour and hi-tech are set to invade Indian football as sponsorship money rolls in for national tournaments. Zee Sports and Indian football federation...
MUMBAI: Disney is adding content from ESPN and ABC sports to the shows it already sells on Apple’s iTunes online music and video store. Sports highlights,...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced that it has sold the upcoming football series The Greatest Show On Earth to three broadcasters. The series which has been...
MUMBAI: While it is trying its very best to get the rights for India cricket the latest sports channel on the block Zee Sports has been...
MUMBAI: Despite having a sizable following in India, football does not excite broadcasters and marketers as much as cricket does. Still, the All India Football Federation...
MUMBAI: Monday Night Football, the most successful series in American sports television history, will move to ESPN US, ending a marathon 36-year run on ABC. An...
MUMBAI: Sports marketing firm Total Sports Asia (TSA), which launched in India last year, is planning to organise a diverse slew of events this year. These...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has teamed up with QA Konsortium, a mobile content aggregator in Bangladesh, to launch a SMS news service in Dhaka. The service...
MUMBAI: Lights! Camera! Music! The countdown to find the Indian Idol gets down to brass tacks as it were! After months of combing through singing hopefuls...
MUMBAI: Uefa has invited tenders for the TV rights for the European Football Championship (Euro) 2008. In India ESPN Star Sports had aired Euro 2004 a...
MUMBAI: Football’s governing body Fifa has announced a public tender for the broadcast and media rights to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Fifa will...
MUMBAI: This is a piece of news that should make the media planning community sit up and take note. When the biggest sporting spectacle the Athens...
MUMBAI: A move is afoot seeking to increase the popularity of viewing sports through the net in Europe. Uefa has announced that its 2004-05 uefa.com action...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its recently launched game show Junior Mastermind in the UK has a winner – 10-year-old Daniel Parker. He answered questions on...
MUMBAI: While the media focus in the past few weeks has been on who will get the rights for India cricket and on DD’s Olympic coverage,...
MUMBAI: FirstNet, which airs on the Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) platform in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe will exclusively telecast the matches of the...
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that underscores the importance of online streaming. Fans of European football will be able to watch video highlights from every match...
MUMBAI: One of the sports where ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has a clear lead over the competition is football. The broadcaster has announced that it has...
MUMBAI: British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has hit a viewer milestone. On Friday, the UK/ Ireland satellite TV platform controlled by News Corp claimed that it had...
LOS ANGELES: Comedian Dennis Miller will become a TV talking head again in January, this time hosting an hour long show five nights a week on...
MUMBAI: Thanks to Bend it like Beckham, Football has managed to squirm in the space hitherto occupied by Cricket. With East Bengal winning the LG ASEAN...
LONDON: The recent tender by the FA Premier League for a greater number of live TV rights to Premiership games from the 2004-05 season has brought...
NEW YORK : Former ESPN and ABC-TV president Steve Bornstein has been hired by the National Football League (NFL) to serve as president and CEO of...
MUMBAI: ESPN International has acquired the exclusive telecast rights in Latin America and the Pacific Rim for the Dutch First Division Football. According to the new...
The World Cup is heating up and how. Soccer may be getting more eyeballs as the race to the World Cup gets hotter, but cricket continues...
In a move timed to capitalise on the football fever on the eve of the World Cup, Discovery Channel has announced a series of documentaries about...
