The Sport Thread

[bkman1990]

The First Round of bidding for UEFACL UEFAEL and UEFAECL rights in the UK (and France) for the 2024-2027 Cycle closed this morning (29 Jun 2022). All sorts of stories again circulating including a move to streaming only. We should know by the Weekend if the winner is known at the first round stage.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see a move elsewhere, the protracted WBD - BT discussions happening at 'the wrong time' for this award.

The LiveScore app has not proven to be a big success for those streaming UEFACL matches in The Republic of Ireland. A lot of outages have occurred to people when using that app to watch the matches on their phone. I would say that the majority of those people in Ireland are still thankful that BT Sport have provided non exclusive rights to these matches on the Sky platform in that country.

I would presume some of those same people are very happy with Virgin providing the rights for the UEFAEL/UEFAECL matches in their country even though BT Sport still provide same.