Livestream – Yahoo Sports adds PGA Tour in sports portfolio

February 12, 2016 • Tags: #golf

PGA Tour has agreed a partnership with the Yahoo.com to deliver free live video from tournaments along with on-demand highlights and other video content. Golf satellite TV schedule Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but cooperation has started yesterday with the Pebble Beach Pro-Am event. This event is one of the most exciting events on the PGA Tour playing in front of over 150,000 spectators and millions of television viewers on three of the Monterey Peninsula’s premier golf courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course. All tournament proceeds benefit Monterey Bay … Continue Reading

Astra 19.2°E – Servus TV will encrypt Austrian channel in March

February 12, 2016 • Tags: #motorsoprtontv

Servus TV, the commercial broadcaster owned by Red Bull, energy drinks brand, will encrypt its channel for satellite TV users in Austria via Astra 19.2°E satellite position from the start of the March. This move will affect both SD and HD channels. MotoGP satellite TV schedule The reason of this descision is the recent acquisition of the MotoGP TV rights which only cover a territory of Austria. Satellite TV users can receive the channel with the ORF SAT smartcard required for decryption. Servus TV is a great FTA source for ice hockey fans having satellite TV equipment. Servus TV covers German and … Continue Reading

Spox.com becomes a home of NBA in Germany

February 11, 2016 • Tags: #basketballtv #liveonsatbasketball

The NBA has renewed and expanded it’s deal with Germany’s multimedia sports websiite Spox.com. The deal will se Perform-Group owned site continue to provide daily NBA content to fans in Germany. Half of the season is behind us, but spox.com will continue to show 3-4 matches in livestream for free. Adittionally, a expanded agreement gives Spox.com the live streaming rights to a whole All-star wekkend in Toronto, which begins on this Friday 12th February and ends two day later with 65th All-star game. With FREE live stream, Spox.com becomes the home of the most popular basketball league in the world. Other content will include highlights, blog posts, behind scene photos and analysis from Spox … Continue Reading

Nová Digi wins La Liga and Premier League rights in Czech Republic and Slovakia

February 10, 2016 • Tags: #liveonsatfootball

Czech pay-TV operator Nová Digi has secured the multimedia broadcast rights to Spain’s La Liga and becomes the latest operator to secured the media rights to the English Premier League, in a three-year package. The deal for La Liga starts immediately and expires at the end of 2017/2018 season campaign. La Liga matches will be available on Digi Sport 3 and Digi Sport 4. The Premier league deal starts with the 2016/17 season and it will also begin offering its customers digitala access via its internet portal and mobile apps, which is very popular in the region. The Premier League … Continue Reading

Astra 28.2°E – BBC and Eurosport long-term Olympic Games deal

February 10, 2016

Great news for sport fans in UK! The BBC will continue to be the free-to-air broadcaster of the Olympics until 2024. BBC had already secured TV and media rights for the 2016, 2018 and 2020, but the innovative partnership with Discovery Communications, the owner of Eurosport, ensures that the Winter Olympic Games 2022 in Beijing and 2024 remains accesible to an as wide audience as possible. The deal means that BBC will sub-license (from eurosport) exclusive free-to-air TV and non-exclusive radio rights. In turn Eurosport has won some exclusive TV rights in the UK to the 2018 and 2020 Olympics. 2012 Olympics in numbers This deal … Continue Reading

Who will cover Bundesliga in next three seasons?

February 5, 2016 • Tags: #bundesligaliveontv #liveonsatfootball #liveonsatfreetoair

The German Football League (DFL) has launched a tender proccess for the cycle of international media rights for next three years. A range of Bundesliga products, which are covered with this deal, include: 1. and 2. Bundesliga, The Supercup annual match and the relegation play-offs. The rights are being offered market-by-market in  more than 50 territories, but bids can be submitted on a pan–European basis.  The DFL said last week that it is expecting to complete its tender for the next cycle of domestic rights by the start of the Uefa Euro 2016 tournament in France this June.SKY Deutschland has all live Bundesliga rights Sky Deutschland shows all 306 Bundesliga matches … Continue Reading

Astra 19.2° and 28.2°E – Super Bowl 50 live and on Sat.1 and BBC

February 5, 2016 • Tags: #liveonsatfreetoair #liveonsatnfl #nflliveontv

Super Bowl 50 will determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2015 season. The game will be held on February 7, 2016 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Carolina Panthers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos. The Panthers finished the regular season with a 15–1 record, defeating the Arizona Cardinals 49–15 in the NFC Championship Final and advancing to their second Super Bowl appearance since the founding in 1995. The Broncos finished the regular season with a 12–4 record, and denied the New England Patriots a chance to defend their title from … Continue Reading

Astra 28.2°E – BBC covers snooker until 2019

January 28, 2016

According to Telegraph, The BBC has retained the UK rights to snooker’s three biggest and most prestigious events – the World Championship, UK Championship and Masters. The deal is worth 6.5 mil €.  Snooker satellite TV schedule In recent months, the BBC has been forced to offload rights to rugby’s SixNations, golf’s OpenChampionship, tennis’s AustralianOpen, and, most recently, Formula One. Snooker rights was also under threat, but broadcster has decided to retain snooker rights. Snooker has been invented in India by British Army officers and is popular in many of the English-speaking countries, with top professional players attaining multi-million-pound career earnings. The sport is now increasingly … Continue Reading

Astra 19.2°E – Deutsche Telekom has acquired Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) media rights

January 28, 2016 • Tags: #liveonsatfreetoair #liveonsaticehockey

German telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, has won the rights for the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the top division of the ice hockey in the country. Deutsche Telekom will cover every match in next fuor seasons on their Entertain IPTV sevice, PCs, Tablets and smarthphones. Together with transmission rights, Deutsche Telekom has also won all media and advertisement rights. This season, Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) was covered in germany and Austria by free to air broadcaster Servus TV and Laola TV as IPTV. Servus TV covers ussualy Sunday afternoon matches and those have fixed termin in 17:45 (Berlin time) Deutsche Telekom considers also to share some matches with … Continue Reading

Nilesat 7°W and Eutelsat 7.3°W – FTA sport live on sat channels

January 25, 2016 • Tags: #liveonsat #liveonsatfootball #liveonsatfreetoair

According to nilesat.com, in November 2013, Nilesat broadcasted around 700 TV channels, and over 100 digital radio channels uplinked either from Cairo, Dubai, Amman, Doha, Riyadh and Beirut and covering North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf Region. Nearly 76% of the TV channels are free to air, where the rest are pay-TV. Nilesat viewership in the MENA and across the europe region has steady growth and it is very popular amoung satellite TV community. There is no satellite position with such a huge number of free to air channels. Nilesat operates with four satellites: Nilesat 101, Nilesat 102, Nilesat 103 and Nilesat 201. A fact that 76% of … Continue Reading