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extends Global Rights Partnership with to 2019

UTV Media plc (UTV) is pleased to announce that talkSPORT has extended its international partnership with the Premier League for an additional three years until 2019. The - based station has been re-appointed as the Premier League’s global audio partner to the end of the 2018/19 season, continuing the existing four year agreement which was due to expire at the end of the 2015/16 season.

Scott Taunton, Chief Operating Officer, UTV Media plc said: “In the two years since its appointment as the Premier League’s global audio partner, talkSPORT has established itself as a truly international sports media brand.

“Today’s announcement means we can extend talkSPORT into even more markets, as well as creating new opportunities for advertisers and sponsors. ’m pleased that talkSPORT’s ever growing international audience will be able to look forward to listening to our world class live coverage of the Barclays Premier League for a further three seasons.”

Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive, Premier League said: “talkSPORT has for many years produced high quality radio commentary of Barclays Premier League matches in the UK, and successfully extended this to an international audience when they became our first global audio licensee two seasons ago.

“We are extremely pleased that we will continue this partnership and look forward to working with them as they make Barclays Premier League radio commentary available in more languages and to more countries around the world.”

As with its existing agreement, the extension gives talkSPORT an exclusive package of international audio rights to provide official live commentary of all 380 Barclays Premier League matches in any language to listeners around the world outside of the UK and .

The new agreement follows talkSPORT’s highest ever listening figures in the UK, according to the latest RAJAR figures, with 3.4 million sports fans tuning in every week. talkSPORT is the world’s biggest station and is global audio partner of the Premier League. The station is an official broadcaster of the Barclays Premier League, the FA Cup, England football internationals and the One Cup. talkSPORT is available on 1089/1053AM, on , on mobile and online at talkSPORT.com.

For further information contact:

UTV Media plc:

Orla McKibbin, Director of Communications on T: +44 (0) 28 90 262188