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Sport Newspapers was the British publishing firm responsible for the Daily Sport , Sunday Sport newspapers 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 newspaper Sunday Sport. The company offices were in Manchester, England. [1] [2]

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An attempt was made to publish a weekly version in Ireland, called the Irish Weekly Sport, [3] but its softcore pornography and trivial content proved unpopular within the Republic.

Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries to Sport Newspapers include Flip Media which was set up by Michael Bancroft, a former director of SMD Publishing to publish Front magazine and DVD World. [4]

Administration

On 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. [1] [5]

Entrepreneur Grant Miller acquired the rights to the Daily Sport and relaunched it online through a new company, Daily Sport Limited. [2] [6]

Sport Newspapers Limited and majority executive shareholder Duncan Williams is today primarily focused on developing realtime digital media brands, most particularly within the betting and gaming sector.

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References

  1. 1 2 Sunday Sport, British Newspapers Online. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  2. 1 2 Daily Sport (defunct), British Newspapers Online. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
  3. Webb, Nick (14 June 2009). "Porn baron closes Irish 'Sunday Sport' as sales here fail to stiffen". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  4. "Front due to return under Flip Media". Campaign. 20 February 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
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  6. James Robinson; Mark Sweney (10 August 2011). "David Sullivan could launch Friday edition of Daily Sport". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 11 June 2013.