BBC secures Match of the Day and iPlayer rights
The BBC has won a £180m deal to continue to show Premier League highlights for a another three years. This means that Match of the Day passes 50 years on TV. The BBC was successfull with a £179.7m bid to secure the UK free-to-air highlights rights for three seasons from 2013/14 to 2015/16. This represents a 4.5% increase on the £172m paid for the current deal deal.
Sky reveals NOW TV brand for new internet TV service
Sky today announced that its new internet TV service, offering access to Sky content on a wide range of broadband-connected devices, will be called NOW TV. The new brand was revealed this morning by Sky’s Chief Executive, Jeremy Darroch, as he delivered the opening keynote at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit in London.
Apple bid for Premier League TV Deal
Apple is lining up a bid to bring Premier League football streaming to its Apple TV service, according to reports in the press this morning. The Premier League existing TV contract expires at the end of this season and the Premier League will be listening to offers with clubs keen to secure an increase in the price of the contract.
Streaming Football using Sopcast and Wiziwig.tv
Streaming football using sopcast and wiziwig is the easiest way to follow Premier League football. Sopcast is the peer to peer software used to get the TV pictures/streams onto your computer and Wiziwig.tv is the site used to find the links to the streams for the match.
There are a number of different ways of watching live football streaming online but we are going to concentrate on one of the best and easiest ways to do it. There are a number of sites offering flash based streams but often they are full of obtrusive adverts.
First thing to do if you haven’t already got sopcast installed is to follow our guide here and get it installed on your PC. This is peer to peer software and it is used to ensure the stream is shared between a large amount of viewers without any problems.
If you already have sopcast installed you then need to find a stream. There is a list of channels already in sopcast but it is difficult to know what is on them and often it is better to track down the channel link elsewhere.
First suitable myp2p.eu streaming replacement, Wiziwig, up and running
Following the early season outage of Myp2p.eu and Wiziwig.eu, the Wiziwig site is now back up and running on a different domain. Just when we are about to drown under a sea of web based streams used software like YCast and Cast Amp the new Wiziwig site arrives. The Wizig site had be stumbling on using their forum to post links to live sports and by all accounts, still the place to go for streaming links despite only having their forum up and running.
For the official statement and the link to the new site click on the Read More link:
Myp2p.eu and Wiziwig.eu gone but still running....of sorts
Update: The new Wiziwig site is now back up and running. Check out our story on the new site here. The site looks like the first decent Myp2p.eu replacement.
It has now been over a month since the Myp2p.eu website disappearred off the face of the planet due to legal issues and promised to move to the wiziwig.eu domain. There has been a lot of panic over what has happened to the largest collection of streaming sports links. The Myp2p team have been busy updating their twitter account promising to keep us informed with what is happening. For whatever reason not a lot of information has come to light on the cause of the outage.
Where to now for streaming sports after myp2p.eu
With no sign of the myp2p.eu site coming back online following the current outage we are profiling a number of myp2p.eu alternatives. Here’s our pick of the free streaming sites available:
How to find streaming football online
How to find streaming football online is now getting easier and easier. Over the past 5 years internet TV has become more and more popular thanks for ever increasing broadband speeds and better software. This site hopes to go about showing you how to track down your favourite English Premier League online and watch the match online.
Back when video first started on the internet, back in the days of Real Player and Windows Media Player, streaming any kind of video, not just sports was really troublesome. We are now moving away from the days of dodgy links only allowing limited amount of people to connect to live streams. The number of times a link would go up on a forum for football and within a few minutes it would no longer be working as too many people were watching it.
The introduction of eer to peer (p2p) applications have allowed huge numbers of people to connect to live streaming tv. With the ever increasing broadband speeds it is now possible to view HD channels over the internet.