There’s no live sport on TV nor a pub currently open to watch it in. But this doesn’t mean operators can’t help fans and customers get their fix during the Covid-19 shutdown
Indoor mini golf concept Puttshack’s expansion has been in full swing since a £30m equity raise in 2019. We teed up CEO Joe Vrankin to discuss the group’s forward drive.
Publicans may be prevented from screening live sport if fans are banned from attending fixtures amid fears of ‘moving crowds from stadiums to pubs’ and continuing the spread of Covid-19, according to reports.
Experts are backing pubs to convert strong Home Nations showings at the 2019 Rugby World Cup into pints and profit during the first Six Nations championship of a new decade.
The broader impact of UEFA’s decision to ban Manchester City from European football tournaments ‘cannot be underestimated’ according to Greater Manchester’s night-time economy adviser Sacha Lord.
Many football fans enjoy the atmosphere at the pub on sporting occasions but new insight shows they are wrong to think it’s cheaper to watch their team’s games at home.
In the fourth episode of The MA Podcast, Ed Bedington talks to Fuller's boss Simon Emeny about the pubco's future, threats to the trade and why we should be celebrating success.
The Institute of Licensing is conducting a survey on white collar boxing, after being contacted by a media company working on a documentary on the subject.
Integrated venue marketing and live sports streaming platform Screach is aiming to make some noise in the pub trade by offering its streaming services for free.
Ahead of a huge year of sport in 2020, The Morning Advertiser spoke to pub operators and industry experts about the events they hope will boost their bottom line in the next 12 months.
Stonegate Pub Company has become the first UK operator to team up with LaLigaTV – offering visitors to selected sites the chance to watch Messi, Modric and more.
JW Lees managing director William Lees-Jones gives his view on issues in the pub trade and confirms there are no plans to sell the brewery, following similar sales in the trade this year.
Mike Reed, operations director at Belle Pubs & Restaurants, explains how the Griffin Belle in Vauxhall, south London, has become a matchday mainstay for fans of Brazil's most supported club, Flamengo.
Both Greene King and Stonegate have invested in Amazon Premier League Pass, which will allow their pubs to broadcast the online giant’s Premier League matches during the Christmas period.
It’s not been the most encouraging entry to the market from Amazon with a dearth of information and a disappointing lack of transparency, says Matchpint co-founder Dom Collingwood.
Thanks to what Screach CEO Robert Rawlinson refers to as ‘the first-ever enterprise-grade streaming service to UK pubs’, can operators expect an alternative to satellite sports packages?
Broadcaster BT Sport and Bury St Edmunds-based pub operator and brewer Greene King have joined forces to revamp the Red Lion in the City of London in celebration of women’s football.
More sport fans wanted to watch England’s Rugby World Cup final against South Africa in a pub than England’s Russia 2018 World Cup football semi-final against Croatia – despite the former kicking off at 9am.
A Gloucestershire licensee has been ordered to pay more than £35,000 after he was found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreement.
Pubs will sell 1m extra pints during the Rugby World Cup final – but only if England win – according to a prediction from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).
Research revealed at the launch of Stonegate’s We Love Sport pub-finding app has found it takes more than just volume to create an electric pub atmosphere.
Will Hawkes, author of Pubs and Sport: The Perfect Match, talks about how his research has discovered the on-trade raise about £40m for grassroots sport every year.
Despite early UK kick-off times, the opening weekend of the 2019 Rugby World Cup (RWC) yielded a 5% increase in rugby fans searching for pubs compared to the start of the 2015 tournament.
According to Ipsos MORI’s Out of Home Viewing Panel, 2.1m fans watch sport on TV in out of home venues such as pubs and bars at least once a week. But how can operators upgrade their venue to cash in?
Some 22% of Brits have said the ultimate place to watch rugby is at the pub with friends because they can soak up the atmosphere, new research has found.
With the Rugby World Cup taking place in Japan this year, the majority of matches will be televised early in the morning. What are the risks and opportunities for licensees?
Former rugby union internationals and Saracens teammates Alistair Hargreaves and Chris Wyles discuss swapping lineouts for lager and founding their own beer brand
A report examining the link between the on-trade and grassroots sport has revealed pubs contribute, on average, more than £1,000 each to nearby clubs each year.
After a photo emerged on social media of a pub charging customers an entrance fee to watch televised sport – which entitled them to two drinks at the bar – The Morning Advertiser asked whether or not it was something that other operators would get on...
With less than a third of pub-going sports fans currently forking out for home subscriptions, the local seems a prime location to watch Premier League games on Amazon. But how viable is it for pubs?
