Industry Shorts: Sky Sports, Bbc, Wimbledon
Sky Sports says that Sunday night’s Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool, played behind closed doors at Goodison Park, drew a record audience for a Premier League game in the UK.
A peak of 5.5 million viewers tuned in to watch the 0-0 draw between the two clubs, with an average of 5 million throughout. The numbers beat the previous record viewing figures, set in April 2012, when Manchester City beat Manchester United in an end-of-season derby en route to winning their first Premier League title.
Meanwhile, the first live Premier League game to be broadcast on the BBC saw a peak TV viewing figure of 3.9 million, with a further 660,000 requesting views on iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.
The figure represented a 24.5% share of the live audience on Saturday night, and counted 3.6 million viewers on average across the broadcast.
Sky’s broadcast of Manchester City’s victory over Arsenal – on the first night of the Premier League restart – reached a peak audience of 3.4 million.
The AELTC has asked the public to submit their ‘Wimbledon Wishes’ in a bid to make fans’ dreams come true over the course of the next year.
Entries submitted will be collated and pored over by a three-person panel, who will pick the winners. According to organisers, the winning wishes ‘won’t necessarily be the biggest and best,’ but will be those the panel think ‘will make the greatest difference in this time of crisis.’
The club says it will announce winners by 31st August, and over the course of the next year will attempt to make the winners’ wishes come true – either before, during or after the 2021 Championships.
Hashtag United has partnered with PT SportSuite, and will use the latter’s SportMojos platform to facilitate remote working.
The football and esports club will use the platform to allow players to upload content remotely via a mobile app direct to a private, cloud-based team dashboard, allowing media managers to standardise the way they commission, collect and store media from players, coaches, fans and more, from anywhere in the world.
The LTA has appointed Paralympic medallist Lucy Shuker as the ‘National School Sport Champion’ for tennis.
Ahead of National School Sport Week at Home, and in partnership with children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust, Shuker will join a group of international athletes from other sports such as cricket, football and golf, who will use their voice and public profile to reinforce the importance of physical education and school sport to young people and communities.
