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November 25 – The Premier League is taking its media operations enterprise in-house, ousting long-term broadcast companions IMG.
A joint assertion from the Premier League and IMG revealed the plans for a brand new enterprise set to launch within the 2026/27 season, marking the primary time in 20 years that English soccer’s high flight will handle all worldwide media content material manufacturing and distribution in-house.
For the previous twenty years, this service has been delivered in partnership with IMG underneath the banner of Premier League Productions (PLP), which can proceed to supervise protection for the following two seasons.
The choice was unanimously accepted by all 20 golf equipment on the latest Premier League shareholders’ assembly.
Premier League chief media officer Paul Molnar stated: “IMG has been a unbelievable accomplice for the Premier League over the previous 20 years. They’ve labored tirelessly on our behalf to offer world-class content material and providers to our worldwide companions. Throughout this time, our partnership has been on the forefront of broadcast innovation to ship top-class programming week in, week out all through the season. This has all come collectively to play a significant position in rising our world audiences and recognition.
“As we transfer the media manufacturing operations in-house, we stay steadfast in our dedication to offering a best-in-class content material service to our companions and thousands and thousands of passionate followers world wide.”
Barney Francis, EVP, Studios, IMG stated: “Our work with the Premier League has been game-changing, each for a way followers get pleasure from soccer, and for the expansion of the Premier League’s worldwide viewers and enterprise. Working on the slicing fringe of sports activities manufacturing for 20 years, we’re proud to have launched many inventions collectively – from PLTV in 2010, which opened up the worldwide TV rights market, to the transition from SD to HD, after which to 4K.
“Now we have constructed a state-of-the artwork digital studio, produced award-winning digital content material and launched new cameras and feeds which have made the Premier League’s programming a gold commonplace for world sports activities broadcasting. With IMG’s wider manufacturing work for rightsholders such because the EFL, MLS and Apple, the Saudi Professional League, EuroLeague and ETP, we’re persevering with to energy reside sports activities broadcasting, leveraging new applied sciences and reaching wider audiences as our enterprise continues to develop internationally.”
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