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BBC News
2 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
A year to go but no UK broadcaster for Glasgow Commonwealth Games
With a year to go until the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow organisers have yet to secure a UK broadcaster to televise the between the hosts and a number of broadcasters have been ongoing for some time but no agreement has been reached for live BBC has been the principal broadcaster of the Games since TV coverage began in it is understood an agreement is still some way off, with some sources within the corporation suggesting a waning appetite for continuing its association with the event. An agreement to broadcast Glasgow 2014, was in place a full three years before it the deal for the BBC to broadcast the last Games in Birmingham in 2022, was signed two years before the agreement represented the 18th consecutive Games to be broadcast by the BBC said it does not comment on sports rights Batty, chief executive of Glasgow 2026, said: "This week we have just announced Sky New Zealand as one of our broadcast partners. "We also have Channel 7 in Australia, and there will be news on a UK broadcaster later this year."Glasgow stepped in to host next year's event after a number of cities pulled out for financial majority of the £114m budget is coming from the £100m in compensation paid by the state of Victoria after they pulled out of hosting in Scottish government gave its backing after receiving assurances that no public money would be used for the event, which is being scaled back to 10 core sports and four includes a revamped Scotstoun stadium which will host the athletics. The one-year countdown to a large-scale sporting event provides the perfect opportunity for organisers to remind people what's coming and why they should be for the team behind Glasgow 2026, it's also stark reminder of just how little time they have left to deliver an event that, at times, has seemed unloved and even was confirmed as the host city in October last year but only after a number of other cities pulled out for financial reasons and a sceptical Scottish government was eventually convinced to back seemed like Glasgow or bust for an organisation that continues to fight for sporting and cultural relevance in a big event world where money talks only marginally louder than that as the backdrop, those in charge of the Games were forced to admit, perhaps sooner than they would have liked, that a "reset" was difficult to escape the euphemistic use of the simply, for the Commonwealth Games to survive they knew it had to be scaled back to make it financially more step forward Glasgow as the guinea pig saviour or canary in the coal mine. Glasgow 2026 won't just be a sporting those desperate to see the Games have a long-term future, want it to be a blueprint for others to copy. A year out, we know roughly what the Games will look we can't predict is what the Games will feel like. This is a first and getting it right is a must for those who champion the Commonwealth in those organisers can't really control is the inevitable comparisons to Glasgow the Games were last in the city, the overall cost was £543m. This time the budget is between £114-£ this time, no public money is being used. The state of Victoria, which had to pay compensation for pulling out of hosting, have delivered a £100m cash remaining cash will be provided by sponsorship and ticket sales revenue. In fairness, those in charge of the event this time around haven't hidden from the obvious fact they highlight that these games have been made possible by the building and infrastructure legacy left by Glasgow may be true but, with limited infrastructure changes and no promise of a city wide face-lift, what will the legacy be this time around? Like any large-scale sporting event, public support is mascots and catchy slogans will do some of the heavy the organisers of this event know getting the message across that these Games won't be funded from the public purse is the key that could unlock the support they need. Most Glaswegians have fond memories of Glasgow 2014 but whether or not they will get as excited for a hugely scaled back version remains to be putting on the show insist it's free money for the city and its residents - a Glasgow party paid for by as important as public backing is the buy-in from athletes. Don't underestimate what it means for some within the key Commonwealth countries to compete against each other. There's little doubt that the Games still have significance for many but with an ever-expanding sporting calendar, there is plenty of athletics, the Diamond League has expanded to include more meetings across different continents. The World Athletics Championships have also grown in terms of participants and countries swimming schedule is also expanding with discussions aimed at professionalising the sport and increasing its could see these Games as a good midway point in their preparations for the LA Olympics in 2028 but others may want to prioritise different the Games look to reset in scale, there's also an understanding within the organisation that questions over how culturally relevant they are, won't go away. For many of the smaller nations and territories, the event provides a platform to compete, win medals and boost national pride through Commonwealth Games is often framed as a celebration of shared history and cultural ties, but it cannot shake the fact that, for many, the Games are viewed as an outdated nod to a colonial the Games at a crossroads in so many ways, Glasgow 2026 has been tasked with, not only keeping the event alive, but proving that it can have a future.
Reuters
4 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Mexican broadcaster Televisa flips to profit in second quarter
MEXICO CITY, July 22 (Reuters) - Mexican broadcaster Televisa ( opens new tab on Tuesday reported a net profit of 474.5 million pesos ($25.3 million) for the second quarter, landing in the black after logging a 25.6 million peso loss in the year-ago period. Revenues slid 6%, meanwhile, to 14.73 billion pesos, in line with the estimate from analysts polled by LSEG. ($1 = 18.7654 pesos at end-June)
Reuters
15 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Indian broadcaster Zee's revenue falls on advertising woes
July 22 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises ( opens new tab reported a 14% drop in first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as the broadcaster was hurt by weak demand for advertisements. Zee, which runs channels like ZeeTV and ZeeCinema, reported a consolidated total income of 18.5 billion rupees ($214.24 million) for the three months ended June 30, from 21.5 billion rupees a year ago. ($1 = 86.3520 Indian rupees)
The Guardian
2 days ago
- The Guardian
Mary Russell obituary
My mother, Mary Russell, who has died aged 88, was a teacher, travel writer, broadcaster and storyteller. She journeyed to more than 50 countries and shared her experiences of them in print, radio and in person. After teaching in primary and secondary schools in London and Oxford during the 1960s and 70s, Mary started writing about travel for the Guardian on a freelance basis in 1980, while she was studying for an MA in peace studies at the University of Bradford. The following year she went to Lesotho in southern Africa and wrote a series on solo female travellers for the Guardian women's page. She was then invited to edit a nonfiction book, Survival, South Atlantic (1983), by two wildlife photographers, Cindy Buxton and Annie Price, who had become caught up in the Falklands war. The publishers, HarperCollins, subsequently asked what else she would like to do, and so she set about writing The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World (1986), which looked at the experiences of intrepid female travellers throughout the ages. Three other books followed: Please Don't Call it Soviet Georgia (1991), an account of her travels across Georgia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Journeys of a Lifetime (2002), a travelogue bringing together many of her trips, and My Home Is Your Home: A Journey Round Syria (2011). Born in Dublin, Mary was the last of the four children of Evelyn (nee Smyth), and Michael Russell, a civil servant. She was educated at Our Lady's Bower secondary school in Athlone and then University College Dublin, where she studied in the mid-50s. Travelling back from an au pair job in Italy in 1960, she stopped off in London, where she met a writer called Ian Rodger. They married in 1960, after which they moved to Brill in Buckinghamshire and had three children, Deirdre, Russell and me. It was after a period of child-rearing and teaching that she began writing features for the Irish Times and for Irish radio, before hooking up with the Guardian. After Ian died of motor neurone disease in 1984, she took herself away to France the following summer, travelling with a tent on the back of her bike, and then caught a ferry to Algeria, continuing down into the Sahara to spend time with the Saharawi, a desert people displaced by warfare in the region. This, and other subsequent journeys, fed into the book Journeys of a Lifetime, and she continued to write well into old age. In addition, she was an election observer in Bosnia (1990), South Africa (1994) and Kyrgyzstan (2005). A keen musician, Mary sang, played the guitar, piano and electronic keyboards, taught herself the penny whistle and the accordion in her 40s, and learned the saxophone in her 60s, performing with the Blow the Dust orchestra in Dublin. She is survived by her three children, grandchildren Eta, Isabella, Charlie and Elizabeth, and a great-granddaughter, Lila.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yankees Announcer Fires Back at Former NFL MVP Over Early Criticism
Yankees Announcer Fires Back at Former NFL MVP Over Early Criticism originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When the New York Yankees traveled to California for a May series against the Athletics, they had a notable name missing from their traveling party—and, luckily for their sake, it wasn't Aaron Judge or Max Fried. Advertisement First-year Yankees radio announcer Dave Sims took that series off and instead flew to Seattle, the Yankees' next stop on their West Coast road trip, to spend time with his son. Sims rejoined the Yankees several days later for their three-game set against the Mariners. At the time, longtime NFL quarterback and New York radio host Boomer Esiason slammed Sims for taking a series off '40 games into his career' as the Yankee announcer. Although Esiason clarified that he enjoys Sims' work, the 1988 NFL MVP also wondered how and why a first-year play-by-play would skip a series so early in the season. 'You just took the Yankee job!' Esiason said then. 'It's supposed to be the job of your life.' Sims fired back on the 'Awful Announcing Podcast,' explaining that the Yankees and WFAN approved his decision beforehand. Advertisement Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason in 2023Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK 'If you look at the schedules of just about every broadcaster in the major leagues, they take time off,' Sims said. 'It's not like I took time off Labor Day in the middle of a pennant race. 'It was May — almost middle May — and I wanted to see my son,' Sims continued. 'And it was the only time we were going to be going out west, and we had some things we had to take to him ... I wasn't going to make my wife do that.' Neither Esiason nor WFAN had commented at publication. WFAN airs Esiason's morning show and also holds the Yankees' local radio rights. Related: Jazz Chisholm Jr. Has Unexpected 2025 Home Run Derby Odds This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
