Sport Newspapers
Sport Newspapers was the English publishing firm responsible for The Daily Sport, Sunday Sport and a number of mid-shelf and top shelf magazine titles such as Adult Sport, Sport Babes, Sport Reader's Wives and Ladsmag. It was founded in 1986 by David Sullivan to launch the Sunday Sport newspaper. The company offices were in Manchester, England.[1][2]
Administration
On Friday 1 April 2011 the holding company for the firm, Sport Media Group Plc, announced that it had ceased trading, and the company was broken up by administrators.
Successors
Sullivan acquired the rights to some of Sport newspapers and now publishes the Midweek Sport (Wednesdays), Weekend Sport (Fridays) and Sunday Sport, through his new company (also based in Manchester) Sunday Sport (2011) Limited.[3][1]
Entrepreneur Grant Miller acquired the rights to the Daily Sport and relaunched it online through a new company Daily Sport Limited.[4][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sunday Sport, British Newspapers Online. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daily Sport (defunct), British Newspapers Online. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ↑ Mark Sweney (11 June 2013). "David Sullivan paid just £50,000 for Sunday Sport | Media | guardian.co.uk". Guardian (UK). Retrieved 10 June 2011.
- ↑ James Robinson; Mark Sweney (10 August 2011). "David Sullivan could launch Friday edition of Daily Sport | guardian.co.uk". Guardian (UK). Retrieved 11 June 2013.
See also
External links
- Sundaysport.com the official Sunday Sport, Midweek Sport and Weekend Sport website.
- Dailysport.co.uk the official Daily Sport website.
- Dailysport.mobi the official Daily Sport WAP site.
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