Bundesliga: Schalke TV is now available to all club members aged six years old and over

Schalke TV, the club-run channel of FC Schalke 04 (Bundesliga), is now available to the nearly 140,000 members of the FC Schalke 04 eV association, provided that they are at least six years old, announced the club on 01/07/2016. Any new member of the club (six years old or older) will also have…

Digital: Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) launches a fan application via Global Joiz

Xherdan Shaqiri, 24 years old, Swiss international midfielder of Stoke City FC (Premier League), has launched a fan application, via the Swiss company Global Joiz, on 21/06/2016. This application allows you to track player news, view live videos, send messages, and read exclusive interviews…

World Football Forum 2016: official programme of the convention held in Paris on 07 - 08/07/2016

The agency Eventica Sports Marketing, which has organised the World Football Forum annually since 2011, published, on 06/07/2016, the official programme of the 2016 edition of the convention, to be held in Paris (FRA), on Thursday, 07/07 (in the premises of the law firm Dentons) and Friday…

France: beIN Sports to broadcast all Domino's Ligue 2 matches from 29/07/2016

"So as to offer subscribers the greatest shows, beIN Sports will, from the beginning of the 2016/17 season, on Friday, 29/07/2016, present a new and unique way of covering the Ligue 2 championship, with all matches available in full on the channels of the beIN Sports Max offer," announced the…

Premier League: Eleven Sports Network acquires six games per matchday in Taiwan via sublicense

The British broadcaster Eleven Sports Network acquired the TV rights, for Taiwan, for six games (on average) per matchday of the Premier League, sublicensed via the agency MP & Silva, on 04/07/2016. These games will be available on the digital platform of the Eleven Sports network, accessible via…

Digital: investment fund Bruin Sports Capital acquires Italian company deltatre

Bruin Sports Capital, a US investment group specialising in sports, acquired deltatre, the Italian company specialised in digital solutions for broadcasters and organisers of sporting events, announced George Pyne, founder and CEO of Bruin Sports Capital, and Giampiero Rinaudo, CEO and co-founder…

France: free-TV channel L'Équipe 21 announces a "new record with 1.1% audience share in June 2016"

L'Équipe 21 improved its audience record with a 1.1% audience share in June 2016, announced this DTT channel on 04/07/2016. The previous record (1%) took place in May 2016. The free-TV channel of the L'Équipe media group also posted its audience share record over one week: 1.4% from 13 to…

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Euro 2016: 19.2 million for Germany - Italy on Rai1 and Sky Italia in Italy (audience share: 78.8%)

The quarter-final of Euro 2016, Germany - Italy (1-1, Germany qualified 6-5 on penalties) at the Stade Matmut-Atlantique (Bordeaux), drew an average of 16.5 million viewers on the Italian public channel Rai1, on Saturday, 02/07/2016 (kick-off at 21:00 CET). This figure represented a 66.34…

Euro 2016: 4.1 million viewers for France - Iceland in Spain on Telecinco (audience share: 29.6%)

The last quarter-final of Euro 2016, France - Iceland (5-2) at the Stade de France (Saint-Denis), drew an average of 4.142 million viewers in Spain on the free-TV channel Telecinco, on Sunday, 03/07/2016 (kick-off at 21:00 CET). This figure represented a 29.6% audience share and allowed the…