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BBC Sport gears up for 2010 F1 season
From Digital Spy - Digital TV. Posted February 5 2010, 11.48am
The BBC gears up for another F1 season with coverage on TV, radio, online and Red Button platforms. (more)

ITV4 increases motor sport output
From Digital Spy - Broadcasting. Posted February 3 2010, 6.26pm
ITV4 will reportedly be showing more motor sport, including the British Touring Car Championships. (more)

Daily Sport publisher in profit despite circulation slide
From Media Guardian. Posted January 28 2010, 9.17am
Sport Media Group's profitability recovers in second half of 2009 after bailout by former owner David SullivanSport Media Group, publisher of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport, said today that while the business ended the year in profit, daily circula... (more)

Shares in B Sky B down as cost of watching sport on tv is set to plunge
From Media Guardian. Posted January 18 2010, 12.29pm
Shares in B Sky B were down this afternoon after it was reported yesterday that Ofcom, the media watchdog, will force Sky to drop the price it charges rival broadcasters for its Sky Sports channels. (more)

Cost of TV sport to tumble as Ofcom turns screw on Sky
From Media Guardian. Posted January 17 2010, 7.05pm
Regulator's price cut will bring good cheer for armchair sports viewers, but it will create tension between Murdoch and the ToriesArmchair sports fans will soon have something to cheer, with the cost of watching live football, cricket and rugby on &#... (more)

Question of Sport offers few answers to a sport-starved nation's needs
From Media Guardian. Posted January 11 2010, 12.05am
So what exactly were the highlights of a Question of Sport's 40 years? Still, in these icebound times, we'll always have dartsIf made for TV disaster-dramas have taught us anything, it's that when the snowbound apocalypse finally gets here there are some things we can at least be certain of. (more)

'Let's Dance' returns for Sport Relief
From Digital Spy - TV. Posted November 18 2009, 11.25am
The BBC announces the return of the Let's Dance... in aid of Sport Relief. (more)

Review of TV rights 'will turn golden decade of sport into decade of decay'
From The Independent. Posted November 14 2009, 12.00am
England's cricket authorities have led a sporting stampede to condemn a government report into the future of sport on television. (more)

The Big Question: What are the crown jewels of sport and why is there a row over them?
From The Independent. Posted November 13 2009, 12.00am
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Lossmaking Sport Media hails 10% lift in circulation
From Financial Times. Posted October 28 2009, 2.00am
Sport Media Group, the Aim-quoted publisher that breached its banking covenants this year, has omitted its dividend after reporting a pre-tax loss of £7.7m for the... (more)

SJA: Sport videos part of News Int online subs model
From Press Gazette. Posted October 19 2009, 9.01am
A new division of Sky Sports is to provide exclusive breaking-news sports videos available to News International newspapers� paying subscribers, according to the Sports Journalists� Association. (more)

Sky deal to offer movies sport on Freeview
From Daily Telegraph. Posted October 15 2009, 11.22am
Freeview customers will be able to get Sky's most popular channels from early next year under a deal signed today between the satellite broadcaster and IP Vision's Fetch TV. (more)

BSkyB 'was willing to share sport and films'
From Daily Telegraph. Posted September 17 2009, 7.48pm
BSKYB chief executive Jeremy Darroch has revealed the group told Ofcom two years ago it was willing to share its premium sports and film channels with third parties in an attempt to resolve the longrunning investigation into the payTV market. (more)

BBC Sport extends World Darts TV deal
From Digital Spy - Broadcasting. Posted September 4 2009, 11.16am
BBC Sport extends its Lakeside World Professional Darts exclusive TV rights deal until 2013. (more)

ASA criticises Sky HD sport ads
From Media Guardian. Posted September 2 2009, 5.20am
BSkyB's existing non-HD customers could not upgrade in time to 'experience every ball', as ad promised, rules watchdogBSkyB has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for promoting its high-definition Ashes cricket and Lions rugby union coverage... (more)

T4 puts ex-Hollyoaks stars in sport battle
From Media Guardian. Posted August 17 2009, 5.14am
Matt Littler and Darren Jeffries to go head to head in Red Bull Rivals for Channel 4's youth strandChannel 4's youth strand T4 has commissioned the "ultimate adrenaline-fuelled summer road trip", with a series in which the former Hollyoaks actors Mat... (more)

PA Sport Selling Controlling Stake In Sportal Australia To Perform
From paidContent:UK. Posted August 12 2009, 11.50am
British digital sports rights distributor Perform is buying a 33 percent stake in Sportal Australia, an Aussie sports news and VOD site, from Press Association Sport for an undisclosed amount. (more)

Sunday Sport claims soaring sales
From Press Gazette. Posted July 23 2009, 4.03pm
Sport Newspapers is claiming sales of the Sunday Sport to have soared by 22 per cent in the last three months. Internal figures claim that last week’s sales of the Sunday Sport were almost 87,000 - which they say is an increase of 16,000 sales in 12 weeks. (more)

Sex chat show rapped for plugging Sport newspaper
From Press Gazette. Posted July 20 2009, 12.58pm
Media regulator Ofcom has slapped the wrist of interactive sex chat programme Sport TV after it gave undue prominence and promoted the Daily Sport newspaper. (more)

BBC Sport managers look north
From Radio Today. Posted July 17 2009, 10.24am
Fifty-five per cent of BBC Sport managers have chosen to relocate to Salford when BBC Sport moves in 2011. (more)

Most BBC sport bosses to go to Salford
From Media Guardian. Posted July 17 2009, 8.12am
BBC to confirm that 55% of middle managers from sport department will move from London to new northern baseThe BBC will confirm today that 55% of middle managers from its sport department will move from London to its new northern England headquarters... (more)

Teletext switches off news and sport service to focus on travel
From Daily Mail. Posted July 17 2009, 12.11am
Its news and sport service, which is currently available on ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five and some Sky and Freeview channels, will cease in January 2010. (more)

Game, set and match to televised sport online
From The Times. Posted July 9 2009, 10.42pm
Office slackers have, mostly, enjoyed an excellent decade, as each succeeding technology has created new opportunities for discreet timewasting at the desk. There has been e-mail, the internet, Instant Messenger, Facebook, Twitter and now, best of all, television. (more)

PA Sport undergoes rebrand
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 1 2009, 7.10am
New name and website for sports wire service... (more)

Flintoff guest edits Sport magazine
From Media Guardian. Posted July 1 2009, 5.28am
England cricketer edits Ashes edition of free weekly magazine Sport to coincide with start of first Test against AustraliaEngland cricketer Andrew Flintoff is to guest edit a special Ashes edition of free weekly magazine Sport featuring specially com... (more)

PA Sport undergoes rebrand
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 1 2009, 4.50am
New name and website for sports wire service... (more)

Following Setanta’s Demise - the Sports Fan’s Guide to Sport on TV this Summer
From allmediascotland. Posted June 23 2009, 11.00pm
After a prolonged period of uncertainty, Setanta has entered administration. 200 people are to be made redundant and the business will shortly cease broadcasting in the UK, though it will stay on air in Ireland and overseas.  Charlie Ponsonby, CEO of Simplifydigital... (more)

Relaunched Sport magazine retains editorial team
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2009, 5.01pm
Free weekly magazine, Sport will re-launch on Friday after being saved by the owners of Talksport. (more)

Daily Sport sees 'encouraging' circulation growth
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2009, 8.59am
The Daily Sport has reported an 'encouraging uplift' in newspaper sales in May after a period of losses and circulation decline. (more)

Daily Sport publisher reverses sales decline and says ad revenue 'steady'
From Media Guardian. Posted June 9 2009, 9.01am
Sport Media Group speaks of 'encouraging uplift' in sales, with advertising revenues 'holding steady'Sport Media Group, publisher of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport, has reversed its steep circulation decline for the first time in six months and seen a stabilisation in advertising revenue. (more)

Watch TV on your Xbox: Sky to offer live sport on games console
From Daily Mail. Posted May 29 2009, 8.35am
Watch TV on your Xbox: Sky to offer live sport on games console... (more)

New Statesman editor to write Standard sport column
From Press Gazette. Posted May 27 2009, 12.23pm
New Statesman editor Jason Cowley is to begin writing a weekly sports column for the relaunched London Evening Standard from this Friday. (more)

Evening Standard revamps sport pages
From Media Guardian. Posted May 27 2009, 11.12am
• Columnist David Mellor dumped in favour of Jason Cowley• James Anderson and Glenn McGrath to write cricket columnsThe London Evening Standard has revamped its sport pages, dumping columnist David Mellor after 11 years in favour of New Statesman editor Jason Cowley. (more)

UTV seals deal to buy Sport magazine
From Media Guardian. Posted May 22 2009, 9.34am
TalkSport owner UTV will move Sport magazine's staff into its London offices, but is not rebranding the free weeklyUTV Media, the owner of TalkSport, has concluded a deal to buy the free weekly magazine Sport, and will relaunch it next month. (more)

BBC’s new slideshows on sport website
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 21 2009, 1.42pm
Not much more to add than the headline really - except that the new slideshows spotted on the sport site (by @davelee) have got some great images and load very quickly. (more)

UTV in talks to buy Sport magazine
From Media Guardian. Posted May 19 2009, 10.28am
Free weekly title could be back on the streets next month if TalkSport owner's bid succeedsSport magazine could return to London's streets next month as TalkSport owner UTV Media enters final negotiations to buy the free weekly title. (more)

BSkyB sport and news head to retire
From Media Guardian. Posted May 6 2009, 12.23pm
BSkyB's managing director of sport and news, Vic Wakeling, retires at the end of next monthVic Wakeling, the BSkyB executive who helped mastermind the revolution in British football prompted by satellite coverage and the money it pumped into the game, is to leave after nearly 20 years. (more)

Setanta in talks on sport rights
From BBC News. Posted May 4 2009, 9.25am
The Irish pay-TV broadcaster Setanta Sports is trying to renegotiate its contracts for sporting rights as it tries to deal with cash-flow problems. (more)

Sullivan agrees loan deal with Sport firm
From Media Guardian. Posted April 30 2009, 11.18am
Former owner David Sullivan and Gold Group International agree to lend beleaguered Sport Media Group £1.68mThe former Daily Sport owner David Sullivan and Gold Group International have come to the rescue of the paper's beleaguered publisher, Sport Media Group, agreeing to loan it £1. (more)

Demise of lads' mag Sport raises questions on free model
From Financial Times. Posted April 21 2009, 2.00am
When Sport magazine became the latest consumer title to cease publication last week, thousands of male commuters bemoaned the loss of London's popular men's lifestyle... (more)

Print Round-Up: Sport Media Group; Mail Online; Haymarket; Bauer; Newsquest; Tindle
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 18 2009, 10.30pm
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Print Round-Up: Sport Media Group; Mail Online; Haymarket; Bauer; Newsquest; Tindle
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 18 2009, 7.00pm
—Sport Media Group: First it breached one of its banking covenants, then it put itself up for sale, and now Sport Media Group is looking to get rid of up to 25 jobs in a bid to save £750,000. (more)

Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror; Metro; Economist Group; Archant; Dagenham Paper; Sport Media Group
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 7 2009, 11.30am
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Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror; Metro; Economist Group; Archant; Dagenham Paper; Sport Media Group
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 6 2009, 7.50pm
—Trinity Mirror: More tough-talking from Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey: in a very rare TV interview, she told Jeff Randall on Sky News about the company's "aggressive" cost-cutting programme: "We are closing titles if we can't find a... (more)

Daily Sport withdrawn from ABC sales audit
From Media Guardian. Posted March 6 2009, 2.28pm
Beleaguered Sport Media Group, publisher of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport, has pulled out of official circulation audits as it tries to sell the struggling titles after massive circulation declines over the past year that could cost it as much as £12m in profitability. (more)

Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror; Metro; Economist Group; Archant; Dagenham Paper; Sport Media Group
From paidContent:UK. Posted March 5 2009, 5.25pm
—Trinity Mirror: More tough-talking from Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO Sly Bailey: in a very rare TV interview, she told Jeff Randall on Sky News about the company's "aggressive" cost-cutting programme: "We are closing titles if we can't find a... (more)

Print Round-Up: New AOP Co-Chair; Sport Media Group; Johnston Press
From paidContent:UK. Posted February 25 2009, 3.19pm
—Association of Online Publishers: The AOP has a new co-chair: Thomson Reuters' general manager for consumer media Tim Faircliff will take up the post until next March alongside Telegraph Media Group digital director Alison Reay. (more)

Zoo founder Barry McIlheney exits Sport Media Group
From Press Gazette. Posted February 25 2009, 1.04pm
Sport Media Group editorial director Barry McIlheney has not had his contract renewed, a year after he joined the company to relaunch the Sport titles as 'newszines'. (more)

Daily Sport Publisher Puts Up For Sale Sign, Flaunts Its Assets
From paidContent:UK. Posted February 24 2009, 2.25pm
If you're looking to buy a couple of less-than-serious newspapers, a series of mobile adult sites and a DVD distribution business, then you're in luck: Sport Media Group is up for sale. (more)

Daily and Sunday Sport publisher up for sale
From Press Gazette. Posted February 24 2009, 12.23pm
The Daily and Sunday Sport newspaper are up for sale again - 18 months after they were bought in a deal worth 50 million pounds. (more)

Daily Sport and Sunday Sport publisher up for sale
From Daily Telegraph. Posted February 24 2009, 12.05pm
Sport Media Group the owner of the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport is in talks about selling all or part of its struggling newspaper business as it faces a race against time to secure financing by the end of next week. (more)

Auditors say Daily Sport owner Sport Media Group may not be a 'going concern'
From Daily Telegraph. Posted January 29 2009, 6.57am
Auditors have questioned the financial strength of Sport Media Group the struggling publisher of the the Daily and Sunday Sport newspapers that breached a banking covenant earlier this month. (more)

Daily Sport plans more cuts after 50% advertising dip
From Press Gazette. Posted January 8 2009, 8.27am
The new owner of the Daily and Sunday Sport has warned it will 'maintain its policy of cost-cutting' after display advertising at the titles fell by more than 50 per cent in a year. (more)

Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group records £18.2m pre-tax loss
From Media Guardian. Posted January 8 2009, 8.01am
Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group has posted a pre-tax loss of £18.2m for the year to the end of July after stripping £18.4m from the value of its newspapers, about a third what they were acquired for in 2007, in light of challenging market conditions. (more)

Daily Sport publisher seeks financing after breaching covenant
From Daily Telegraph. Posted January 7 2009, 10.53pm
Sport Media Group the publisher of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers is looking at a debtforequity swap and other sources of new financing after breaching one its banking covenants. (more)

Roy Greenslade: Daily Sport faces closer as owner breaks bank deal
From Media Guardian. Posted January 7 2009, 2.11pm
In April last year, following the Daily Sport's £1m so-called relaunch by Sport Media Group, I wrote: "My hunch is that the Sport will soon be history. (more)

Daily Sport publisher in financial difficulties
From Media Guardian. Posted January 7 2009, 12.25pm
Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group's share price plummeted 40% in early trading today after the company revealed it had broken one of its banking covenants. (more)

Daily Sport publisher seeks financing after breaching banking covenant
From Daily Telegraph. Posted January 7 2009, 11.03am
Sport Media Group the publisher of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers is looking at a debt for equity swap and other sources of new financing. (more)

Shares fall as Sport Media Group breaches banking deal
From Press Gazette. Posted January 7 2009, 10.37am
The owner of the Daily Sport and Front magazine has been given two months by its bank to reorganise its finances after it breached one of its lending agreements. (more)

ITV news chief Michael Jermey adds sport to portfolio
From Media Guardian. Posted January 6 2009, 12.59pm
The ITV director of news and current affairs, Michael Jermey, is adding sport to his portfolio, taking on responsibility for the broadcaster's coverage of events including the FA Cup and England football internationals. (more)

Digger: Scott MacLeod may sue UK Sport over drugs debacle
From Media Guardian. Posted December 3 2008, 12.00am
While UK Sport considers how to apportion its funding for the Olympics in 2012, there could be a new threat to its budget. (more)

ITV news, sport director resigns
From Digital Spy. Posted November 11 2008, 10.47am
ITV's director of news and sport Mark Sharman stands down from the position. (more)

Third-party content key to BBC Sport plans for Olympics
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 22 2008, 10.00pm
More user-generated content and independently produced online coverage, says BBC Sport's Ben Gallop... (more)

First woman editor of Daily Sport vows to keep "lots of sexy babes"
From Press Gazette. Posted October 1 2008, 11.00pm
Newly appointed editor of the Daily Sport, Pam McVitie, hopes returning to a newspaper-style approach she can turn around the decline in sales, which has partly blamed on the slump in the building industry. (more)

First woman editor of Daily Sport to keep 'lots of sexy babes'
From Press Gazette. Posted October 1 2008, 11.00pm
Newly appointed editor of the Daily Sport, Pam McVitie, hopes returning to a newspaper-style approach she can turn around the decline in sales, which has partly blamed on the slump in the building industry. (more)

Daily Sport appoints first female editor
From Media Guardian. Posted October 1 2008, 11.06am
Pam McVitie has become as the first female editor of the Daily Sport newspaper as part of the title's push to re-establish itself as a tabloid newspaper. (more)

BSkyB may be forced to make it easier for rivals to distribute sport and film channels
From Media Guardian. Posted September 30 2008, 10.11pm
Ofcom propose new mechanism to ensure the channels are available to its rivals at a fair price... (more)

Sky may have to share sport and film channels with rivals
From Daily Telegraph. Posted September 30 2008, 8.55pm
BSkyB faces a major challenge to its business model which has allowed Rupert Murdoch to create Britain's most powerful television group. (more)

Ofcom may force BSkyB to share sport and films
From Daily Telegraph. Posted September 30 2008, 3.47pm
Media watchdog Ofcom may force BSkyB to share its most precious content - topflight sports and Hollywood films - with all rival operators. (more)

PCC censures Daily Sport for glamorising suicide
From Media Guardian. Posted September 16 2008, 9.48am
The press watchdog has censured the Daily Sport for publishing a 'Top yourself tourism' list. (more)

Daily Sport gets PCC adjudication for 'glamorising suicide' in light-hearted guide
From Press Gazette. Posted September 15 2008, 11.00pm
The Daily Sport has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission for its "light-hearted" guide to Britain’s “suicide hotspots” which the PCC ruled glamorised suicide and could encourage readers to take their own lives. (more)

Summer of Sport boosts High Definition Penetration throughout Europe
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted August 28 2008, 8.00am
-High Definition TV reaches one third of European Households- August 28th, 2008 ? Euro 2008 and The Olympics has generated a surge in the penetration of High Definition technologies throughout Europe , according to DEG Europe, a non-profit, pan-indus... (more)

Editor?s Pick. BBC Sport ?Olympic Games?
From UTalk Marketing. Posted July 28 2008, 9.00am
Produced by Damon Albarn... (more)

Murray Morse named as new Sport editor-in-chief
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 22 2008, 10.20am
Former Cambridge Evening News editor takes top job with national titles... (more)

Daily Sport Appointment for Morse
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted July 22 2008, 7.00am
A former news editor of the Daily Record and Edinburgh Evening News, and newsdesk executive at the Press and Journal, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers. Murray Morse succeeds Barry McIlheney, who has been promoted to group editorial director at... (more)

Daily Sport Barry McIlheney editor-in-chief leaves role
From Media Guardian. Posted July 22 2008, 5.15am
Barry McIlheney has left his post as editor-in-chief of Sport Media Group, publisher of the Daily and Sunday Sport newspapers, after just six months in charge. (more)

Former Cambridge Evening News editor is new Sport editor-in-chief
From Press Gazette. Posted July 20 2008, 11.00pm
Daily Sport and Sunday Sport editor-in-chief Barry McIlheney is to step down from his role seven months after joining the re-launched red-top and is to be replaced by Murray Morse, the former editor of the Cambridge Evening News. (more)

PA to retain PA Sport following review of business
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 12 2008, 8.30am
Plus: SoE in talks on televising court, training centres on alert for inspections - and more news in brief... (more)

PA Group takes PA Sport division off the market
From Press Gazette. Posted June 9 2008, 11.00pm
PA Group, parent company of the Press Association, has announced it will not be selling its PA Sport division following a three month review. (more)

Daily Sport owner remains confident despite 11 per cent circulation drop
From Press Gazette. Posted June 5 2008, 11.00pm
The relaunched Daily Sport is expected to post a 11 per cent plunge in circulation when the latest ABC figures for the month of May are released this afternoon. (more)

BBC Sport and Aardman animate Euro 2008 titles
From Media Guardian. Posted June 4 2008, 12.39pm
See stills from the title sequence for the BBC’s Euro 2008, an animation that was produced in collaboration with Aardman Animations... (more)

ITV Sport targets heartbroken England fans
From Media Guardian. Posted May 20 2008, 11.22am
ITV Sport's Euro 2008 promo features a downcast England fan moping to the sounds of Foreigner's 1980s hit I Want To Know What Love Is. (more)

Guardian News & Media integrates news, business and sport departments
From Media Guardian. Posted May 9 2008, 10.20am
Guardian News & Media has unveiled details of its plans to integrate the newsrooms of the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk. (more)

Single news, business and sport team set to work across Guardian and Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted May 8 2008, 11.00pm
Guardian News and Media has today released plans of how it will merge staff into a single team working across The Guardian, The Observer and guardian.co.uk. (more)

Spleak apps deliver politics and sport news to social networks
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 8 2008, 2.00pm
Spleak Media Network has launched two new applications for delivering short-form sport and political news to social networks. (more)

Journalists warn of Euro Parliament sport rights threat
From Press Gazette. Posted May 7 2008, 11.00pm
Journalists and press freedom campaigners are calling on the European Parliament to scrap legislation that would curb news organisations' rights to report from sporting events. (more)

Sikhs vent anger at Daily Sport headline
From Biz Asia. Posted April 26 2008, 11.50pm
Shock and disgust. That is the overall feeling of the Sikh community after coming across the Daily Sport newspaper last Thursday. (more)

Local UK newspaper to use Twitter for live sport reporting
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 24 2008, 10.00pm
Wrexham-based newspaper The Evening Leader to experiment with the micro-blogging tool for live football match reports... (more)

Sunday Sport relaunch fails to lift shares
From Financial Times. Posted April 21 2008, 3.39pm
A £600,000 relaunch of The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport failed to buoy shares in Sport Media Group... (more)

Keith Perry heads TMG's sport operation
From Media Guardian. Posted April 2 2008, 1.18pm
Keith Perry, the Daily Telegraph's sports editor, has been promoted the new post of group managing editor, sport. (more)

BBC revamps news and sport sites with embedded video service
From Media Guardian. Posted March 26 2008, 5.02pm
The BBC is to roll out the next phase in the relaunch of its internet offering, giving its news and sport websites a new embedded video service. (more)

BBC to relaunch news and sport websites
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 26 2008, 12.00am
Changes will be made public next week as part of plans to revamp the whole BBC.co. (more)

BBC plans push into mobile sport content
From Digital Spy. Posted March 10 2008, 10.48am
The BBC is to make its sport coverage more accessible on mobile devices. (more)

Daily Sport editor quits ahead of relaunch
From Press Gazette. Posted February 27 2008, 12.00am
The editor of the Daily Sport has quit the paper after 16 years with the paper ahead of a relaunch on Monday. (more)

Daily Sport targets 'the boys' with revamp
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 9.48am
The Daily Sport will relaunch from Monday as a cross between 'Nuts, Zoo, Bravo and Sky Sports'. (more)

Daily Sport revamp targets 'the boys'
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 9.48am
The Daily Sport will relaunch from Monday as a cross between 'Nuts, Zoo, Bravo and Sky Sports'. (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor quits
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor departs
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. (more)

PA Group considers sale of sport division
From Media Guardian. Posted February 13 2008, 12.47pm
PA Group, the owner of the Press Association newswire, is considering selling its PA Sport division. (more)

PA Group considers PA Sport sell-off
From Press Gazette. Posted February 13 2008, 12.00am
PA Group, parent company of the Press Association, has said it would consider selling its PA Sports division as part of a review announced today. (more)

Super Bowl scores US TV sport record
From Media Guardian. Posted February 5 2008, 11.11am
Nearly 100 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US, making it the second most watched TV programme in American broadcasting history. (more)

Alton to pen sport column for Spectator
From Media Guardian. Posted January 30 2008, 7.20am
Former Observer editor Roger Alton has accepted his first journalism job since leaving the paper - he will become the Spectator sport columnist. (more)

Zoo founder to make Sport 'modern tabloid for blokes'
From Press Gazette. Posted January 22 2008, 12.00am
?The publisher of the Sunday and Daily Sport has signalled its intention to take the titles into lads’ mag territory by appointing former Emap man Barry McIlheney as editor-in-chief of the two publications. (more)

Sunday Times' Skipworth poached for Telegraph sport role
From Press Gazette. Posted January 15 2008, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has poached Sunday Times managing editor (news) Mark Skipworth to be executive editor (sport). (more)

Daily Sport heads towards men's mag territory with Emap MD
From Press Gazette. Posted January 14 2008, 12.00am
Sunday and Daily Sport publisher, Sport Media Group, has appointed a former Emap lads’ mag publisher as editor-in-chief in a bid to make the titles' more like general interest men's magazines. (more)

Daily Sport heads towards men's mags with Emap MD
From Press Gazette. Posted January 14 2008, 12.00am
Sunday and Daily Sport publisher, Sport Media Group, has appointed a former Emap lads’ mag publisher as editor-in-chief in a bid to make the titles' more like general interest men's magazines. (more)

Nation Confesses To Sport On The Brain, Even During Sex!
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted November 26 2007, 10.42am
- 17 per cent of men think about sport whilst having sex - - 1 in 5 blokes ditch dates in favour of sport - - 4 per cent of men admit to missing the birth of their child to watch sport - November 26, 2007:  New 24-hour sports news channel, Setanta S... (more)

Sunday Sport pays damages over photo error
From Media Guardian. Posted November 15 2007, 12.12pm
The Sunday Sport has agreed to pay libel damages to a sex consultant after mistakenly using her picture to illustrate a story. (more)

Cambridge paper launches grassroots sport pull-out
From Press Gazette. Posted October 18 2007, 11.00pm
The Cambridge Evening News is getting its hands dirty with a new eight-page pullout on grassroots youth sport in the city. (more)

Evening News launches dedicated grassroots sport coverage
From Hold the Front Page. Posted October 18 2007, 11.00pm
Business sponsorship paves way for weekly pull-out... (more)

Will Sport AM follow The Sportsman? Don't bet on it...
From The Independent. Posted October 7 2007, 12.10am
A year ago, the notion that Britain might soon have two new sporting newspapers would have looked more than improbable. The Sportsman, brainchild of former Daily Telegraph diary editor Charlie Methven, had just ceased trading after incinerating £12m of investors' cash in less than seven months. (more)

Daily Sport apologises over naked Eastenders pic
From Press Gazette. Posted October 4 2007, 11.00pm
The Daily Sport has apologised "unreservedly" for publishing a faked naked photograph of an Eastenders actress it claimed to have found on the internet. (more)

Sunday Sport editor resigns after 11 years at the paper
From Media Guardian. Posted September 26 2007, 12.00am
1.15pm: Paul Carter, the editor of the Sunday Sport, has resigned after 11 years at the paper. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Sunday Sport names Appleyard editor
From Media Guardian. Posted September 26 2007, 12.00am
The Sunday Sport has appointed deputy editor Nick Appleyard as its new editor after the resignation of Paul Carter. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Sunday Sport appoints new editor as Paul Carter quits
From Press Gazette. Posted September 25 2007, 11.00pm
The Sunday Sport has appointed Nick Appleyard as its new editor after the resignation of Paul Carter. (more)

Al Jazeera Sport wins one millionth customer
From Brand Republic. Posted September 5 2007, 2.10pm
LONDON - Al Jazeera Sport Channel now has over one million subscribers, the Qatari broadcaster announced earlier today. (more)

Magazine ABCs: Freesheet Sport takes the lead in men's sector
From Press Gazette. Posted August 15 2007, 11.00pm
As lads’ mag readership continues too fall, London weekly freesheet Sport took the top spot with the widest circulation in the men’s lifestyle sector. (more)

£50m deal for Sport Newspapers
From The Scotsman. Posted August 8 2007, 10.46pm
SPORT Newspapers, which produces the Daily and Sunday Sport and is 50 per cent owned by co-founder David Sullivan, has agreed to a takeover deal worth around £50 million with Interactive World. (more)

David Sullivan sells stake in Sport titles for £40m
From Media Guardian. Posted August 8 2007, 12.00am
David Sullivan is cutting ties with his red-top Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers in a deal that is expected to net him about £40m. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Tim Lewis appointed Observer Sport Monthly editor
From Media Guardian. Posted July 30 2007, 12.00am
Tim Lewis, a former section editor at the Independent on Sunday, is the new editor of the Observer's Sport Monthly magazine. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Indy man bags Observer Sport Monthly job
From Press Gazette. Posted July 29 2007, 11.00pm
Tim Lewis - formerly editor of the Independent’s Sunday Review has been named as the new editor of Observer Sport Monthly and will join the paper in September. (more)

New Culture, Media & Sport Secretary is James Purnell
From Merry Media. Posted June 28 2007, 1.59pm
The new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is James Purnell, replacing Tessa Jowell who becomes the new Olympics Minister.. (more)

Mobile firm in Daily Sport takeover bid
From Press Gazette. Posted June 25 2007, 11.00pm
The Daily and Sunday Sport could soon be listed on the UK stock market as part of the group's proposed £60 million sale to a firm specialising in delivering adult content to mobile phones. (more)

BBC Sport hooks up with social net site iSporty
From Media Guardian. Posted June 5 2007, 12.00am
4pm: The BBC is partnering with London start-up iSporty to introduce social networking to BBC Sport's cycling website. By Jemima Kiss. (more)

'Know your sport and have super concentration to capture the moment'
From Press Gazette. Posted May 31 2007, 11.00pm
Times sports photographer Mark Aspland, winner of the Carlsberg FA Cup Road to Wembley photographic competition, tells Rachael Gallager what it takes to capture the moment... (more)

BBC Sport Coverage of Vodafone Derby
From Merry Media. Posted May 14 2007, 11.13am
BBC Sport will provide viewers with live and comprehensive coverage of The 2007 Vodafone Derby which will take place at Epsom racecourse on 1-2 June.. (more)

Northcliffe kicks off series of regional sport websites
From Press Gazette. Posted May 3 2007, 7.00am
Northcliffe is to roll out a series of sport websites in Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincoln with audio, video and user-generated content. (more)

Sky News poaches BBC Sport head
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 23 2007, 2.43pm
Simon Buglione to oversee creativity on news channel's multimedia platformsemail this article   digg this   del.icio. (more)

Inside Sport - New BBC Sport's Show
From Merry Media. Posted April 18 2007, 2.09pm
BBC Sport's new programme, Inside Sport, will be aired for the first time on Monday 30 April, 11.05pm on BBC One, presented by Gabby Logan.. (more)

BBC Sport Will Cover Flora London Marathon
From Merry Media. Posted April 12 2007, 3.26pm
On Sunday 22 April 2007, BBC Sport will provide comprehensive live coverage of the 27th Flora London Marathon (BBC One, 8.30am-2pm and BBCi 8am-4pm), plus an evening highlights programme (BBC Two, 6.10pm-7pm).. (more)

BBC Sport to Feature Hawk-Eye Technology for First Time
From Merry Media. Posted April 4 2007, 10.09am
BBC Sport will feature Hawk-eye technology for the first time ever in its coverage of The World Snooker Championship starting Saturday, 21 April on BBC One.. (more)

BBC Sport NI Feast for Rugby Fans
From Merry Media. Posted April 1 2007, 5.47pm
BBC Sport Northern Ireland has announced a feast of rugby for fans this April. BBC Northern Ireland will be the host broadcaster of the IRB U19 Rugby World Championship being staged in Belfast.. (more)

BSkyB may put more sport and films on Sky One
From Media Guardian. Posted March 5 2007, 12.00am
4.15pm: BSkyB is considering repositioning Sky One by introducing more sport and films. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Virgin Media competes with sport offering
From Digital Spy. Posted February 16 2007, 9.50am
Virgin Media offers customers Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 and Xtra and 39 other digital TV channels for £26 per month. (more)

Gabby Logan defects from ITV Sport to the BBC
From Brand Republic. Posted December 20 2006, 9.12am
LONDON - ITV Sport presenter Gabby Logan is joining the BBC in the New Year to present its 'Sports News' programme, set to launch on BBC One by the summer of 2007. (more)

Chris Maume sport on TV: Monty's gambolling celebration as pleasing as Ramps' wonderful waltz
From The Independent. Posted December 16 2006, 12.00am
It was like the first Test all over again on Thursday. There I was in the middle of the night, hoping against hope. Then Flintoff went, and so did I - to bed, that is. (more)

BSkyB snaps up sport websites
From Media Guardian. Posted December 15 2006, 12.00am
4.45pm update: BSkyB is to buy the online sports information and gaming firm 365 Media Group. Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Xfm and Sport Magazine in £50,000 partnership
From Brand Republic. Posted November 24 2006, 11.11am
LONDON - Xfm will broadcast a 60-second sports update every Friday morning in a £50,000 deal between GCap Media and Sport, the recently launched free weekly magazine. (more)

BBC Sport Announces New Deal for the Masters
From Merry Media. Posted October 27 2006, 9.47pm
BBC Sport has renewed its contract to broadcast exclusive, live television coverage of the world's most prestigious overseas golf tournament – the Masters – from Augusta, Georgia.. (more)

Barney Ronay on snooker, the most boring sport on TV
From Media Guardian. Posted October 27 2006, 12.00am
Trying to make snooker exciting is like asking a glacier to move faster. Slow, silent and unashamedly tedious, it is the most boring sport on TV. And that's just the way it should stay, says Barney Ronay. (more)

Sky to launch monthly titles dedicated to sport and film
From Brand Republic. Posted October 10 2006, 7.10am
LONDON - The customer publishing divisions of Haymarket and Future are to produce new monthly magazines for Sky, dedicated to sports and movies, in a shake-up of the broadcaster's communications to its 8.2m customers. (more)

Sponsorship row: Evening Post ‘hit Your Sport below the belt’
From Press Gazette. Posted October 4 2006, 11.00pm
The owners of the new Bristol sports paper Your Sport have accused the Bristol Evening Post of hitting them “below the belt” by undermining their sponsorship of a local football match. (more)

Channel 4 ups international sport coverage
From Digital Spy. Posted October 4 2006, 7.08pm
Broadcaster adds to international sport coverage with a deal to show KOTV series... (more)

Sunday Sport pays damages to ex-Big Brother contestant
From Media Guardian. Posted October 3 2006, 12.00am
1pm: The Sunday Sport has paid damages to a former Big Brother contestant after falsely reporting she had a sex romp with two brothers. By Stephen Brook. (more)

UK launch for first free men's sport weekly
From Press Gazette. Posted September 5 2006, 10.14am
Sport Media and Strategy are claiming to be the first publisher in the UK to launch a free weekly stand-alone magazine for men with the publication of Sport. (more)

Radio Forth secure sport sponsor
From Radio Today. Posted July 25 2006, 9.30am
Midlothian based windows and conservatory company Lochinvar have signed up to sponsor sports coverage on 97.3 Forth One and 1548 Forth 2. The 12 month deal is valued at £50,000 and both sides are said to be delighted with the partnership. (more)

Daily Sport prints harrowing images of Middle East carnage
From Press Gazette. Posted July 21 2006, 10.24am
The Daily Sport published harrowing pictures of burning corpses in coverage of the Beirut-Israel conflict which went far further than any other paper today. (more)

BBC Sport online attracts 200m hits in World Cup fever
From Brand Republic. Posted June 30 2006, 7.06am
LONDON - The BBC Sport homepage has recorded its highest audience figures to date with more than 200m page impressions during the first two weeks of the World Cup, attracting a total of 3m unique users every day. (more)

PA Sport buy UK tech firm
From Press Gazette. Posted June 2 2006, 11.42am
The sports arm of the Press Association is to buy UK-based sports media technology company iKnowledge. (more)

Sky to put live sport on mobile TV
From Media Guardian. Posted May 4 2006, 4.33pm
BSkyB plans to show live football and cricket matches in their entirety simultaneously on mobile phone and TV. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Unilever teams up with Tequila\London for Sport Relief fundraiser
From Brand Republic. Posted April 27 2006, 1.04pm
LONDON - Unilever has appointed Tequila\London to develop its promotional campaign to raise £1m for the BBC's Sport Relief scheme in Sainsbury's stores. (more)

Birmingham sport paper to close
From Press Gazette. Posted April 12 2006, 4.14pm
The Birmingham Mail’s Saturday football paper the Sports Argus will close after 109 years at the end of the season, Trinity Mirror has announced. (more)

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