Sport

FACT convictions

Licensees hit with huge fine for illegal Sky Sports coverage

13-Apr-2015 By Mike Berry

Two licensees have been convicted and ordered to pay in excess of £17,000 in fines and costs for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises.

Interview

Q&A: Sky Sports' Jeff Stelling on football, pubs and punditry

08-Apr-2015 By Mike Berry

The PMA caught up with Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling, who has teamed up with Carlsberg UK in a quest to find ‘The People’s Pundit’, for a quick chat about all things football.

More pubs fined for Premier League copyright breaches

02-Apr-2015 By Mike Berry

Seven more pubs have been fined for showing unauthorised foreign broadcasts of Premier League football.

Sky bolsters support for pubs showing live sport

24-Mar-2015 By Mike Berry

Sky is beefing up the support it provides to its pub customers with the aim of helping licensees make the most of live sport in their venue.

Business Booster

Be in pole position for F1

10-Mar-2015 By James Evison

The 2015 season of the Formula One World Championship, starting this weekend, will make Grand Prix racing a compelling entertainment offer for licensees. James Evison explains.

Foreign Satellite

Premier League takes action against Scottish pubs over illegal broadcasts

05-Mar-2015 By Mike Berry

The Premier League has commenced legal action against a number of Scottish pubs which have made unauthorised foreign broadcasts of its matches.

Money Makers

Making the most of the Cheltenham Festival

03-Mar-2015 By Phil Mellows

If your pub can establish itself as a destination for horse racing fans, there are thousands of chances to cash in every year.

Six Nations Rugby: Making the most of it

20-Jan-2015 By Phil Mellows

As England prepares to host the Rugby World Cup next September, the Six Nations tournament, which kicks off in February, is set to be even bigger than usual, and pubs could find themselves entertaining a whole new demographic.

Thierry Henry joins Sky Sports

16-Dec-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Thierry Henry has announced his retirement from football and will join Sky Sports as a football expert and ambassador from the start of 2015.

East London licensee hit with £5k fine for illegal Sky Sports coverage

11-Dec-2014 By James Evison

The licensee of the Acorn pub in east London has been convicted for showing Sky Sports illegally - and has been ordered to pay £5615 in fines and costs.

Premier League football: Illegal pub satellite box supplier jailed

08-Dec-2014 By Mike Berry

A man who sold illegal satellite boxes to pubs that facilitated unauthorised broadcasting of Premier League football has been jailed for nine months.

Licensee hit with £4,000 fine for showing Sky Sports illegally

17-Nov-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A licensee has been ordered to pay £4,000 after being found guilty of illegally screening Sky Sports in his pub.

Sky Sports launches darts channel for Christmas

13-Nov-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Sky Sports will for the first time dedicate an entire channel to darts this Christmas.

RFU and Sky Sports agree new partnership

30-Oct-2014 By James Evison

Sky Sports has extended its partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) for a further five years, including coverage of England’s autumn internationals.

Sky Sports secures international cricket rights

15-Oct-2014 By Mike Berry

Sky Sports has secured the rights to show international cricket’s biggest events including the World Cup, World Twenty20 and Champions Trophy.

Sky and BT reveal festive football fixtures

06-Oct-2014 By Mike Berry

Sky Sports and BT Sport have revealed their festive Premier League football schedule.

Sky Sports awarded rights to Monday Night Football

25-Sep-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Sky Sports has won the rights to ‘Monday Night Football’, as part of a new five-year agreement for more live American Football from the NFL (National Football League).

VIDEO: Sky Great British Pub of the Year 2014 - The Grafton, Kentish Town

23-Sep-2014 By James Evison

The Publican's Morning Advertiser caught up with the winners of the Great British Pub of the Year to find out what they thought of winning, and how they developed the Grafton in Kentish Town into an award-winning pub.

Sky to film pub quizzes across the country for new series

04-Sep-2014 By James Wallin

A new series about the Great British pub quiz will be filmed at venues across the UK.

Stuart Barnes says pubs can benefit from boost of Rugby World Cup

03-Sep-2014 By James Wallin

Rugby commentator Stuart Barnes has said the World Cup presents a great opportunity for the country’s pubs.

Licensees of North London pub hit with £12k fine for illegally showing Sky Sports

20-Aug-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Licensees of a North London pub have been ordered to pay more than £12,000 after being found guilty of illegally showing a Sky Sports football match.

Sky Sports' Natalie Pinkham to host Great British Pub Awards

18-Aug-2014 By Mike Berry

Sky Sports’ Formula 1 broadcaster Natalie Pinkham will host this year’s Great British Pub Awards, organised by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser.

Sky Sports and BT Sport reveal their live rugby coverage

15-Aug-2014 By James Wallin

Sky Sports and BT Sport have released their line-up of live European rugby matches.

Pub company hit with £3,000 fine for illegally showing Sky Sports

14-Aug-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A pub company has been ordered to pay more than £3,000 after being found guilty of illegally showing a Sky Sports football match.

Licensee hit with £7,600 fine for showing Sky Sports illegally

11-Aug-2014 By James Wallin

A licensee has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after being found guilty of illegally showing a Sky Sports football match.

Sizzling Pubs offers football-themed loyalty card

04-Aug-2014 By James Wallin

Sizzling Pubs is offering football fans discounts for matches with its new Green Card promotion.

BT Sport announces Portuguese football coverage and signs up Paul Scholes

29-Jul-2014 By Mike Berry

BT Sport has signed a deal for up to four exclusively live matches a week from the Portuguese Primeira Liga, taking the channels’ total to six European leagues.

World Cup blamed for dip in leisure spend during June

24-Jul-2014 By John Harrington

Household spending on leisure fell by 6% in June, a decrease of £12 from the previous month thanks to a “stay at home World Cup”, according to the Greene King Leisure Tracker.

Sky Sports to show Top 4 on Premier League opening weekend

14-Jul-2014 By Mike Berry

Sky Sports has announced a TV schedule that includes all of last season’s top four at least six times and every club at least three times by the end of November.

BT Sport reveals first of televised Premier League matches

14-Jul-2014 By Mike Berry

BT Sport will kick-off the new 2014-15 Premier League season on 16 August by showing the Manchester Utd v Swansea match.

Jose Mourinho signs up as BT Sport reveals new Premier League campaign

11-Jul-2014 By Mike Berry

Jose Mourinho has signed a three-year deal with BT Sport.

World Cup boosts spend in pubs during June

11-Jul-2014 By Ruth Williams

Pubs saw a 10% boost in trade for England's first World Cup match with the on-trade expected to have received £116m in extra revenue throughout the tournament.

Win tickets to watch Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora

26-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

It has been billed as the biggest British heavyweight clash of the last half-century and the PMA has five pairs of tickets up for grabs.

Landlord packs pub thanks to World Cup wager

25-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

An unusual World Cup bet has left customers at a Northamptonshire pub with a good reason to keep watching even after England’s early exit.

University launches research project into England’s ‘vanishing pubs’

23-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

The disappearance of pubs in England is the subject of a new research project by the University of Leicester.

Sky Sports extends US Open golf rights

12-Jun-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Sky Sports will show the US Open Golf Championship for a further five years as part of a new agreement that includes women’s, senior and amateur golf events from the USA.

Admiral Taverns to offer free Coral World Cup football bets

12-Jun-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

Admiral Taverns has teamed up with bookmaker Coral to offer both licensees and pubgoers free World Cup bets.

Boris Johnson: 'The pub is one of the best places to watch the World Cup'

12-Jun-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

London Mayor Boris Johnson has championed the pub as one of the best places to watch the World Cup.

Sky Business announces 5% price increase

12-Jun-2014 By Rob Willock

Sky Business is following three consecutive annual price freezes with a 5% increase for TV subscriptions – effective 1 August.

Pub game lets World Cup fans practice ‘penalties’ at urinal

11-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

Captain Morgan has developed a toilet-based game that can help footy fans relieve themselves of England’s penalty hoo-doo.

Sky Sports launches new European football channel

10-Jun-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Sky Sports has launched a new channel dedicated to European football.

Planning restrictions could scupper late openings for World Cup

29-May-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

Pubs may be blocked from staying open late for England’s World Cup matches if it means they contravene restrictions on their planning licences, it has emerged.

Is England football star Paul Gascoigne planning to open ‘Gazza Bar’ chain?

20-May-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

Paul Gascoigne is reported to be planning his own chain of pubs, to be called Gazza Bars.

BT Sport nets 19,000 commercial customers in first year

15-May-2014 By Mike Berry

BT Sport has signed up 19,000 commercial premises in the year since its launch, the “majority” of which are pubs, the broadcaster has revealed.

Sky launches free online training course for pubs

01-May-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Sky has launched a new online training course to help operators “reap the full benefits” from showing live sport in their pub.

Scottish bar hit with £7,000 fine after Sky Sports copyright breach

30-Apr-2014 By Mike Berry

A Scottish bar has been fined a total of £7,000 for showing Premier League football without the correct commercial viewing agreement.

West Midlands licensees admit illegal screenings of Sky Sports

25-Apr-2014 By James Wallin

Two West Midlands licensees have been fined for illegally showing Sky Sports football matches.

Not preparing for the World Cup could be an own goal for publicans

24-Apr-2014 By James Wallin

With just seven weeks to go until the World Cup, publicans are being urged to kick off their plans for the big event or face missing out.

Sky, Premier League and FACT explain the full story behind football screening prosecutions

16-Apr-2014

Recent cases have seen pubs fined as much as £65,000 for illegally screening football games. But many publicans say they are still confused about why these actions are being taken and exactly what the legal situation is. Mike Berry and James Wallin spoke...