Alex Taylor

Football

Pan-African pay-television broadcaster StarTimes paid a cut-price sum to acquire rights to a host of Uefa national-team events following the demise of rival broadcaster Kwesé TV’s pay-television arm, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

Greek Super League football club PAOK will stream its first match of the forthcoming season on the club’s OTT platform, as it enters the 2019-20 campaign without a TV rights deal in place.
Football

Spanish football’s LaLiga has signed an extension to its existing contract in the United States and Canada with Qatar-headquartered pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports through to the end of the 2023-24 season.
Football

Fifa has said that – if Caf hands over centralised rights to World Cup qualifiers – it can double the revenue African football’s governing body currently earns from the property. F
Football

South African free-to-air direct broadcast provider OpenView has signed a deal to broadcast one live English Premier League match per week over the course of the 2019-22 rights cycle
Basketball

Spanish telco Telefónica has renewed its deal with agency Mediapro for the rights to broadcast a range of live sports in public places during the 2019-20 season.
Football

Mediapro chief executive Jaume Roures has warned that LaLiga could lose 30 per cent of its media-rights income if legislation is introduced that limits Spanish football matches to weekends
Basketball

Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova has paid a premium to renew its exclusive rights to EuroLeague and EuroCup basketball in Greece and Cyprus, SportBusiness Media understands, marking a second consecutive fee increase for the European tournament’s rights in the territory.
Football

Egyptian sports broadcaster ON Sports will broadcast the preliminary round matches of two of Egypt’s biggest teams in the Confederation of African Football Champions League.
Rugby

Qatar-based pay-TV broadcaster beIN has signed a deal to broadcast this year’s Rugby World Cup across nine Asian nations exclusively.