365 Media Group is a now dormant sports

media company Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information e ...

that once employed over 100 people in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

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and Cape Town, South Africa. Between 2001 and October 2006, the company was known as and grew through the acquisition of a number of businesses including: Ltd, PA Sporting Life Ltd, the UK assets of the Sportal and

Sports.com Sportsbook.com is a privately held online gaming firm, featuring sports betting, online poker, casino games and horse race betting that caters to the U.S. market. Prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, ...

, TEAMtalk Media Group plc and Rivals Digital Media Ltd. In January 2007, 365 Media Group was itself acquired by

British Sky Broadcasting Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of ...

and the company now operates as a division of Sky Sports. Later that year, in June 2007, the company's and gaming brands were absorbed into

Sky Bet Sky Betting & Gaming is a British-based gambling company, owned by Flutter Entertainment, with headquarters in Leeds, West Yorkshire and offices in Sheffield & Solihull. Sky Betting & Gaming consists of five core brands: Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky ...

, Sky's own betting brand. TEAMtalk, PlanetF1, PlanetRugby, Golf365, Cricket365 and

Football365 Football365.com is a website operated by Planet Sport Publishing's Planet Sport Network that also includes TEAMtalk, Planet Football, Planet F1 Planet Rugby, Tennis365 and LoveRugbyLeague from its base in Leeds. The website primarily covers the ...

are now part of Planet Sport Publishing's Planet Sport Network. 365 Media Group ran a network of sports news and content

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s, including TEAMtalk, PlanetF1.com,

, sportinglife.com and

Sportal Sportal was a company of the dotcom boom at the end of the 1990s. Founded by Rob Hersov, and backed by BSkyB and Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest among others, the company, originally called Pangolin, acquired rights to host a many official website ...

. The company was also involved in content syndication to other media owners and mobile network operators.

TEAMtalk

TEAMtalk.com is the name of a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

-related website based in

since 1996 when it was launched by Bill Wilson's IMS PLC. The site grew out of the premium rate football phonelines phenomenon of the early 1990s, developing into a website with a tabloid media style of reporting. The site has sections for all clubs in the

FA Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

, and features ''Your Say'' sections which allow the users of the site to comment on the football stories of the day. TEAMtalk briefly ran an AM radio station,

TEAMtalk 252 TEAMtalk 252 was a short-lived UK national commercial sports radio station, based in Leeds in West Yorkshire with long wave transmission coming from the Clarkstown radio transmitter in Trim, County Meath in Ireland, formerly used by Atlantic ...

, broadcasting from Ireland using the equipment of Atlantic 252, which both opened and closed in 2002. TEAMtalk Broadcast and its sister company TEAMtalk Satellite were taken over and renamed by Headland Media in May 2008. As of 2021, TEAMtalk.com is published by Planet Sport Ltd in Leeds.

References

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External links

Planet Sport Limited site

TEAMtalk official site
Mass media companies of England