BT is to offer its new sports channels, offering live Premier League football, free to customers who take its broadband service as the telecoms operator ramps up its challenge to BSkyB’s dominance of UK pay-TV.

The Scottish Premier League have joined forces with YouTube in a deal which will see match highlights and exclusive content made available to fans in the UK and around the world for the next three seasons.

Sky Sports has signed a five year deal with the Scottish Premier League which will include five Rangers games from the Football League.

The Scottish Football League has approached broadcasters with a package to show up to 25 live Rangers matches in Division Three next season.

BT has secured the rights to broadcast live Premier League games for the first time, securing the rights to 38 matches a season from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

FIFA has launched a channel on the video-sharing platform YouTube to make the world football federation’s rich audiovisual content more accessible to fans.

Kick TV launched with a separate MLS Digital crew responsible for all of the content while YouTube handles ad sales and contributes Google’s promotional power. MLS and Google will share ad revenue.

Premier League football will be available to view on free-to-air TV for the first time in its 20 year history. ESPN are set to show Manchester City v Fulham on February 4th as part of their free weekend pass.

ITV has agreed a new £90m, two-year deal with the Football Association to continue broadcasting The FA Cup and England internationals, including home qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.

Apple is interested in bidding for the UK TV rights to the Premier League, says a report in The Daily Mail.

The Premier League’s live UK rights for 2010-13 raised £1.782bn when they were sold to Sky Sports and ESPN UK during the summer of 2009.