Prime Volleyball gets nine sponsors for Season 1Sports marketing firm Baseline Ventures, which has exclusive marketing rights to the league, has also roped in Byju's, Cred, Dafa News, Eat...
31 Jan, 2022, 11.10 AM IST
Madras high court dismisses Volleyball Federation’s stay application against arbitration award to BaselineThe court had asked the federation to deposit Rs 2 crore before pronouncing any interim stay on its challenge of the arbitration award of N...
29 Oct, 2021, 05.33 PM IST
View: The volleyball is in our courtAny investment in sport only pays in the medium to long term. Even IPL, the big daddy of them all, had teams reaching profitability after t...
25 Sep, 2021, 10.40 PM IST
Prime Volleyball gets backing of 5 original team owners, signs Sony as long-term broadcast partnerFirst season of PVL, scheduled to kick start early next year, will feature six teams -- Calicut Heroes, Kochi Blue Spikers, Ahmedabad Defen...
15 Sep, 2021, 05.50 PM IST
Knockout punch: How Covid has taken a toll on smaller professional sports leaguesIndian sporting leagues offer an unabashed view of hegemony – and what money and influence can do. When Covid cases dipped last year, IPL a...
03 Jul, 2021, 11.07 PM IST
Volleyball league to return in a new avatar sans federation supportThe promoters of Pro Volleyball are set to launch the first private Volleyball league with franchise-owners as stakeholders.
23 Jun, 2021, 10.25 AM IST
Baseline Ventures wins arbitration, Volleyball Federation asked to pay Rs 4 croreJustice (Retd) K Kannan, the Madras high court-appointed arbitrator, has awarded Rs 4 crore plus interest as damages and legal fees to Base...
24 Nov, 2020, 11.04 AM IST
Pro Volleyball sees 2X jump in sponsorships ahead of season 2Pro Volleyball promoters have secured long term sponsorship agreements from RuPay as title sponsor for the next three seasons. “We are plea...
14 Nov, 2019, 08.27 AM IST
Pro Volleyball season 2 to kick off on Feb 7thThe second season of the league will feature a total of 22 matches with the final of the league to be played on March 1st.
08 Nov, 2019, 08.04 PM IST
Kotak Group, Screwvala’s USports buy teams in Ultimate Table TennisThe Kotak Group’s Insurekot Sports, which also runs Pro Kabaddi franchisee Puneri Paltan, will own the team.
26 May, 2019, 12.40 PM IST
Volleyball League owners aim to make event second biggest in IndiaWhile PVL had a short first season (21-days, 6-teams), the league will be adding two more franchises ahead of second year.
10 Apr, 2019, 08.08 PM IST
Pro Volleyball off to flying startDespite sports channels’ intermittent switch-offs Pro Volleyball was sampled by over 14 million viewers on TV and 1 million on digital plat...
15 Feb, 2019, 08.12 AM IST
Pro Volleyball ropes in RuPay as title sponsorWhile National Payments Corporation of India’s RuPay has signed up as the title sponsor of the league, Bank of Baroda, Peter England and Ni...
22 Jan, 2019, 11.16 PM IST
Pro Volleyball signs Nippon Paint as associate sponsor for first two seasonsNippon Paint is also official sponsors of Chennai franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Indian Super League (ISL) - Chennai Sup...
02 Jan, 2019, 07.13 PM IST
Pro Volleyball League to start with 6 teamsAs per BARC data shared by Krishnan, 22.4 million viewers sampled volleyball in the Asian Games, and 54.3 million viewers watched it at the...
27 Nov, 2018, 09.46 AM IST
Sony to broadcast inaugural season of Pro Volleyball LeagueScheduled to kick-start in February 2019, the current league structure will consist of 18 matches.
16 Aug, 2018, 05.56 PM IST
Decks cleared for take-off of Pro VolleyballWhile announcements were made two years back, the internal feuding within the federation delayed the launch
06 May, 2018, 10.41 PM IST