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Amazon Prime confirms 2020/21 Premier League fixtures

21-Aug-2020 By Stuart Stone

Amazon has confirmed which fixtures from the forthcoming Premier League season will be exclusively broadcast via its Prime Video service after the 2020/21 schedule was revealed on 20 August.

MatchPint scores exclusive bookings partnership with Access Collins

03-Aug-2020 By Stuart Stone

Sport pub finding app MatchPint has teamed up with DesignMyNight's sister company Access Collins to offer its more than 5m annual users a new and improved pub pre-booking journey post-lockdown.

Budweiser and BT partner to offer discount

30-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Budweiser Brewing Group has partnered with BT Sport to offer reduced prices on pubs’ sport subscriptions.

Premier League season kick off date announced

27-Jul-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

The new Premier League season will begin on Saturday 12 September, it has been confirmed.

Amazon makes Premier League games available to reopened pubs for free

09-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone

Amazon Prime Video’s three remaining Premier League fixtures for the 2019/20 season will be made available to pubs via broadcaster BT Sport, it has been confirmed.

Indoor sport at pubs not in the spirit of Covid-secure guidance

03-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs should discourage customers from playing games such as pool or darts when they reopen from 4 July in accordance with the Government’s guidelines on how to limit the potential spread of Covid-19.

BT Sport to remain free for pubs throughout July

29-Jun-2020 By Stuart Stone

BT Sport has announced that it will remain free for pubs and clubs until August – meaning partners will have free access to what remains of the broadcaster’s Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup coverage this season.

Post-lockdown sport pubs to tackle noise during live screenings

25-Jun-2020 By Stuart Stone

Socially distanced pubs have been advised to tackle fan volume during post-lockdown sport screenings in a bid to kick aerosol transmission of Covid-19 into touch.

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Get ready for Premier League kick-off (part 2)

29-May-2020 By Stuart Stone

With a Premier League kick-off scheduled for 17 June and pubs slated to start opening less than a month later, what challenges could the return of live sport pose operators?

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Premier League season to resume on 17 June

29-May-2020 By Stuart Stone

The Premier League has revealed that the 2019-20 season will return from lockdown on 17 June – just 18 days before some pubs are slated to reopen.

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Award-winning publicans use £2,000 prize pot to support NHS

30-Apr-2020 By Stuart Stone

The operators of the Garden House have pledged to use £2,000 worth of tech vouchers to treat staff at local NHS services.

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BT Sport suspends billing ‘until further notice’

28-Apr-2020 By Stuart Stone

Broadcaster BT Sport has revealed it will not be charging its pub partners for subscriptions until further notice amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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How can pubs help fans get their sporting fix during Covid-19 lockdown?

22-Apr-2020 By Stuart Stone

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

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Coronavirus and sport: what's the latest on the break in play?

31-Mar-2020 By Stuart Stone

With fixtures kicked into touch by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we round up the latest news on the sporting world’s time out

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English football suspension extended to 30 April

19-Mar-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

English football has been further postponed until no earlier than 30 April, football bodies have announced.

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Euro 2020 football tournament postponed until 2021

17-Mar-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The Euro 2020 football tournament has been postponed until next year because of the coronavirus outbreak.

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BT and Sky Sports suspend billings

17-Mar-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Broadcasters Sky and BT Sport have announced they will suspend billing on their services for pubs.

BT Sport’s women’s football pledge backed by more than 1,000 pubs

13-Mar-2020 By Stuart Stone

BT Sport’s Red Lioness Pledge now has more than 1,000 signatories after 150 Stonegate Pubs committed to showing more women’s football.

'We plan to continue creating innovative concepts in different spaces' says Puttshack boss

11-Mar-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

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Pubs could be barred from showing live sport

11-Mar-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

Oxfordshire pub to star in Sky advert after competition win

27-Feb-2020 By MA Editorial

The licensees of the Grapes pub are poised for their TV debut after winning Sky’s Pints. Camera. Action! draw.

Pubs to sell an extra 7m pints during Six Nations 2020

21-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

Euro ban on Man City ‘could cost the night-time economy millions’

18-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

Licensee fined close to £30,000 for Sky Sports copyright infringement

17-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

A pub operator has been ordered to pay almost £30,000 after being found to have infringed Sky’s copyright.

Pubs are cheaper place to watch football than at home

14-Feb-2020 By Alice Leader

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.

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Fuller's boss Simon Emeny on the future of the pubco

13-Feb-2020 By MA Podcast

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.

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Pubs and white collar boxing: avoid a knockout blow

11-Feb-2020 By Poppleston Allen

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.

Free LaLiga and Premier Sports for pubs from Screach

06-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

Top tips: innovation on the social bingo scene

28-Jan-2020 By Poppleston Allen

Social bingo is enjoying a revival with many operators providing innovative approaches.

Pubs preparing for 'another a bumper year of sport'

24-Jan-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

Licensee billed £18,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports

23-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

A licensee has been found guilty of illegally screening Sky Sports to customers with the intent of dodging the applicable costs.

Stonegate kicks off ‘UK first’ LaLigaTV partnership

20-Jan-2020 By Stuart Stone

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.

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Tanner brothers open to new pubs / JW Lees boss on the trade

03-Jan-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

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.

Belle of the ball: how the Griffin Belle became a home away from home for Brazilian football fans

20-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

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.

900 pubs sign up to trial live sport streaming

12-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

Six pub groups boasting a total of 900 sites have committed to trial live sport streaming in partnership with Screach and Premier Sports.

More demand for pubs showing KSI v Logan Paul II than Fury-Wallin bout

04-Dec-2019 By Stuart Stone

Dubbed ‘the biggest event in internet history’, did the second instalment of Logan Paul v KSI have a positive effect on the pub trade?

Greene King and Stonegate to screen Amazon’s football fixtures

02-Dec-2019 By Alice Leader

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.

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Amazon needs to be transparent for pubs to use services

25-Nov-2019 By Dom Collingwood

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.

BT Sport retains exclusive UEFA Champions League rights

15-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

Broadcaster BT Sport has retained the exclusive UK rights to European club football competitions until 2024, it has been confirmed.

BT Sport reveals price of Amazon Premier League Pass

14-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

Broadcaster BT Sport has revealed how much pub and bar operators will have to pay to screen Amazon’s Premier League fixtures in December.

'Fundamental revolution' in sports rights will see streaming overtake satellite in pubs

13-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

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?

750 Greene King pubs sign BT Sport pledge to screen women’s football

12-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

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 fans sought pubs for Rugby World Cup final than Three Lions' semi

08-Nov-2019 By Stuart Stone

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.

Licensee hit with £35k bill for illegal Sky Sports screening

01-Nov-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

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.

1m extra pints to be sold during Rugby World Cup final

30-Oct-2019 By Emily Hawkins

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).