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SKY SPORTS will show exclusively live coverage of the speedway’s Elite League, the highest level of competition in the UK, for the next five years thanks to a new deal announced today.

The new agreement made with the British Speedway Promoters Association means Sky Sports viewers will be able to watch live coverage of speedway’s Elite League through the summer months, and every season until 2019.

The agreement made with the BSPA comprises of a minimum 25 meetings a year through the summer from March to October featuring the 10 teams from the League starting with the Elite Riders Championship at Coventry on Friday 21 March featuring Great Britain’s very own 2013 World Speedway Champion from Wolverhampton Tai Woffinden competing against some of the top riders in World Speedway. The deal also includes exclusively live coverage of the Premier League plus other selected individual events.

Speaking about the deal Alex Harkess, Chairman of the BSPA, said: “This is great news for speedway. Sky Sports has helped raise the profile of the sport with their high production standards, and being shown on their channels means British Speedway has the best possible home to enable us to reach our passionate fans as well as appeal to new ones.”

Coverage of Speedway is presented by former GB Captain and World long track champion Kelvin Tatum with commentary Nigel Pearson and studio analysts former GP rider Chris Louis and former Speedway World Champion Sam Ermolenko. Charlie Webster returns as pit-lane reporter.

Speedway is one of over 30 different sports to be shown across Sky Sports’ six channels, and coverage will be available to Sky subscribers live via mobile and tablet devices.

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Team boss Swales has broken his winter-long silence to say: “Racing in the National League is something we have considered, but we feel that Peterborough is an Elite League club and that is where we should rightly be.

Feb 2 2011, 2nd birthday on Sunday www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/speedway/speedway-news/panthers-saga-could-have-a-happy-ending-1-2370729

and the one which went AWOL from the BSF:

6 years ago I know but is it that different now at the EoES PANTHERS team boss Trevor Swales has insisted the city club will never contemplate competing at anything other than the highest level of British speedway.

Mahoney told http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk: “There is still no outcome to the situation regarding television coverage and we were not in a position to make any sort of guarantees to sponsors." - as money was not a problem, how about a small flutter on the probable outcome? www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/speedway/speedway-news/financial-concerns-lead-to-the-closure-of-panthers-1-5687960

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Still not happy about our demotion, as you might be able to tell

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AT THE RACES ("ATR") MEDIA RELEASE



For immediate release, Thursday, January 30, 2014



AT THE RACES' STREAMING DIVISION SIGNS RIGHTS DEAL WITH BRITISH SPEEDWAY



At The Races today announced that its new in-house streaming division, Sport Mediastream, has agreed a long term deal with Go Speed International (GSI), the exclusive media rights owner of British Speedway racing.



ATR will have the exclusive, worldwide right to produce and distribute all Elite and Premier League fixtures, excluding a minimum of 25 fixtures covered by Sky Sports which holds exclusive live TV rights to Elite and Premier League Speedway in the domestic market. There are 672 fixtures per season across both Leagues. ATR will deliver an audio/visual service of live and archive races, and data, for betting purposes in both online and retail environments. Under its Sport Mediastream brand, ATR will initially deliver a streaming service for the sport to domestic and international online bookmaker partners across PC, tablet and mobile platforms.



Sport Mediastream will work with GSI to develop and produce dedicated camera coverage infrastructures at various speedway track venues across the country and streamed coverage of major Elite League and Premier League fixtures will be made available to betting shop and online bookmakers in the UK, Ireland and worldwide.



Sport Mediastream, which launched on July 1st 2013, has been developed using the latest technologies to meet the specific demands of the betting industry. 16 bookmaker and media partners have already integrated with the platform which ATR uses to serve over 5 million streams per month with superior latency and picture quality.



Terry Russell, Chief Executive, Go Speed International, said:



"At The Races has demonstrated it has a robust streaming platform able to deliver a high quality service.



"Combined with its existing integrations and specific expertise in the betting industry, we believe they are the ideal partner to help us develop a global streaming and betting proposition for British Speedway."



Matthew Imi, Chief Executive, At The Races, said:



"We are delighted to be able to announce this exciting new partnership with GSI and British Speedway.



"There is a lot of depth to the sport, performance data, tactics and scoring systems that we think all serve to make it an exciting prospect as a betting product.



"Through our Sport Mediastream division we look forward to developing this and other opportunities directly with our many bookmaker partners."



For more information please contact:



Matthew Imi

Chief Executive, At The Races

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At The Races

● At The Races is the UK and Ireland's most watched dedicated horseracing channel. It launched on June 11th 2004.



● It is a joint venture between BSkyB, Arena Racing Company and other racecourses.



● Broadcasting 24 hours a day, At The Races is currently available to over 13 million multi-channel homes across the UK and Ireland through Sky, Virgin Media and UPC.



● The channel is officially measured in the UK and Ireland and regularly reaches 2 million individuals monthly in UK and Ireland households (BARB & Nielsen).



● Attheraces.com attracts over 2 million monthly unique users (Google Analytics) and operates its own odds comparison service.



● At The Races serves over 4.5 million video streams each month via its own streaming division, Sport Mediastream, with instant race replays available free of charge on attheraces.com.



● At The Races is distributed into 5,800 commercial premises by Sky.



● Outside the UK and Ireland, At The Races distributes its content into over 30 countries by means of GBI Racing, its joint venture operation with Racing UK.



British Speedway



Elite League



● Comprised of 10 teams which race at home and away twice during their regular season. There are a total of 360 fixtures. The first fixture is April 22nd 2014 and the last fixture is September 12th 2014.



Premier League



● Comprised of 13 teams which race at home and away once during the regular season. There are a total of 312 fixtures. The first fixture is April 22nd 2014 and the last fixture is September 7th 2014.

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Starman (on the BSF) wrote:

Im glad you and many others agree mate. Every fan sticks up for their club passionately, rightly so, but on the same token, every fan wants the same thing. To see the best riders and Speedway posible. Sky have given British Speedway a second chance, now the BSPA and all the clubs Sponsors and its promotions must take the bull by the horns and make it work. If it means shifting things a bit then so beit. Sky have done their bit, it is now time for the clubs and its promotions to do theirs, starting at next Novembers AGM...