365.L Regulatory News (365)

2 Mar 2005 07:02

ukbetting PLC02 March 2005 2 March 2005 ukbetting plc Agreement with BBC expands TEAMtalk customer offering BBC Sport's video content now available through TEAMtalk TEAMtalk Media Group announces today that their users will now be able to accesscontent from BBC Sport directly from the TEAMtalk Media Group sites following anagreement between TEAMtalk and bbc.co.uk. The move will see an increasedfootball offering to TEAMtalk's 7m monthly users and wider use of bbc.co.uk'srich content to its licence fee payers. The BBC has agreed to the TEAMtalk Media Group sites carrying links to the videofootage of its interviews from Match of the Day and Football Focus, as well asBBC Sport's popular 'Squad Selector' application. The sites includesportinglife.com, football365.com, rivals.com teamtalk.com and sportal.com. Allof the content is being made available on a free of charge and non-exclusivebasis. The move follows TEAMtalk's recent launch of conferencefootball.tv, which allowsusers to access live Conference League matches, as well as delayed highlightsfrom the 300 matches played in the season, and the BBC's commitment to workingmore closely with the new media industry. Peter Dubens, Chairman of ukbetting plc, owners of TEAMtalk Media Group, said: "We are delighted to be able to offer our customers access to the BBC'scomprehensive resource in this area, direct and for free, which strengthens ouroffering considerably. With the use of broadband growing steadily in the UK, wesee rich media as an increasingly important component of our offering to ourcontent customers." Steve James. Business Development Manager at bbc.co.uk said: "We're delighted to offer a link to our existing content to the TEAMtalk groupof websites, as part of our plans to make our content, free of charge and on anon-exclusive basis, more widely available to our licence fee payers. In makingour content available in this way to TEAMtalk, and to others who wish to do so,we hope not only to show our commitment to working with external players, butalso to extend BBC content to those people for whom bbc.co.uk may not be theirfirst stop." -ends- For more information, contact: ukbetting plc 020 7766 6909Peter Dubens, Chairman Financial Dynamics 020 7831 3113Edward Bridges / Juliet Clarke Notes to Editors ukbetting plc (AIM: UKB.L) is the UK's leading online gaming and sports contentoperator. Listing on the Alternative Investment Market in August 2001,ukbetting has since pursued an active acquisitive strategy and now owns andoperates ten sports content sites (sportinglife.com, sportal.com,bettingzone.co.uk and TEAMtalk.com, www.rivals.net, www.football365.com,www.planetrugby.com, www.planetf1.com, www.golf365.com and www.cricket365.com),an odds comparison site (oddschecker.com) and three wagering sites(ukbetting.com, totalbet.com and goldbet.com). Through these sites it ispossible to find in-depth information, and place fixed-odds bets, on a varietyof sports including horse racing, football, cricket, rugby, tennis, as well aspoker, casino and skills based games. In addition to these websites, ukbettingalso owns Campbell's Bookmakers Ltd, which operates 7 licensed betting officesin London and the South East of England. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange