Talk:365 Media Group

Headland Media

This page: http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/1788 suggests that Team Talks broadcast operations were renamed Headland Media following a management buyout, therefore this article needs updating. If anyone with better knowledge than me could update would be appreciated.

Philedmondsuk (talk) 18:18, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for standalone TEAMtalk article

I would like to propose that TEAMtalk be separated from 365 Media into its own TEAMtalk page. 365 Media Group, as already referenced on this page, was a short-lived business that owned TEAMtalk for a relatively brief period. Whereas TEAMtalk has been a media brand for 30 years under a range of different owners (all of which I worked for, to declare my conflict of interest). ukbetting plc owned TEAMtalk for 4.5 years from 2002 to 2006 and was only known as 365 Media for 18 months of that period. Other owners have included TEAMtalk, Sky UK, Ole Media Ltd and Planet Sport Ltd. Other sites that were briefly owned by 365 Media have their own pages, including Planet Rugby <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Rugby<ref>, SportingLife <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_Life_(British_newspaper)<ref>, Sportal <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportal<ref> and Football365 <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football365<ref>. I would also propose that the page covering TEAMtalk's short-lived foray into radio, <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAMtalk_252<ref> also be integrated into the proposed standalone TEAMtalk page, again because the TEAMtalk brand is 30 years old whereas TEAMtalk252 lasted less than five months, so it's a brief chapter of the wider TEAMtalk story. I don't believe I am proposing a controversial change; everything I've mentioned is already referenced on pages outlined above. I am only proposing a reorganisation of the way information about TEAMtalk is packaged and presented to reflect the weighting of TEAMtalk as a long-standing media narrative over chapters within that story that don't necessarily warrant their own standalone pages. Proposed introduction text for a TEAMtalk page (this proposed text assumes that '365 Media Group' and 'TEAMtalk 252' remain as standalone pages, but I would propose that TEAMtalk 252's page be closed and the information integrated into the proposed TEAMtalk page): TEAMtalk is a Leeds-based football news service that began in the late 1980s as a premium-rate phone line service and became a website, https://www.teamtalk.com, in 1997. The site covers football transfer news and club news with a focus on the English Premier League but also the Championship and the biggest clubs around the world. TEAMtalk is also known for publishing Paper Talk on weekdays, reviewing the British papers in the morning and European newspapers in the afternoon. Its origins lay in the TEAMtalk premium-rate phone line service, <ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/29/premium-rate-phone-lines-lured-fans-call-get-gossip-49p-minute/<ref>, that provided audio club news for English and Scottish league clubs throughout the 1990s. TEAMtalk Media floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2000 <ref>https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/beyond-the-footsie-tuesday-close-6322750.html<ref> and soon after launched a short-lived radio station, TEAMtalk 252 [1]. It was taken private again two years later through its purchase by ukbetting plc <ref>https://citywire.co.uk/funds-insider/news/ukbetting-has-74-of-teamtalk/a239211<ref>. The radio station and premium rate phone lines were closed by ukbetting plc, leaving only the website carrying the TEAMtalk brand. Within ukbetting plc, TEAMtalk was added to a stable of sports websites that included SportingLife [2], Oddschecker [3], Football365 [4], PlanetRugby [5] and PlanetF1. Ukbetting later rebranded itself as 365 Media Group <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365_Media_Group<ref> shortly before its sale to Sky UK in December 2006 <ref>https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/bskyb-in-96m-365-media-takeover/<ref>. Since 2015 it has been part of the Planet Sport network, https://group.planetsport.com/, published by Planet Sport Ltd from its offices in Leeds.

Satchie1 (talk) 13:19, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

@Satchie1: I declined the request. I don't see enough TEAMtalk media coverage for a standalone article to meet Wikipedia's standards of notability WP:GNG. I recommend you instead propose a rewrite to clarify that the group is no longer a part of 365, but there's not enough material for a WP:CFORK. There might be a better chance with a Planet Sport article, but for now, I didn't see very much about them either. You may have to wait until they get more media coverage. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:50, 18 April 2022 (UTC)