Exposure key in Sky’s UK rights deal for Usyk-Joshua rematch
Sky’s deal for UK rights will likely be the last time it shows a fight involving Joshua, who in June signed a long-term UK rights deal with DAZN that begins after the upcoming bout with Usyk.
Team Marketing prepares to fight through its existential crisis
Team Marketing's contract for the 2024-27 cycle does not contain an automatic renewal clause as it has done in the past, nor does it contain any option for extension. No matter how well it performs, the agency faces an uphill battle to survive.
Slate of new DFB-Pokal rights agreements but new Match TV deal scrapped
The Deutsche Fussball Bund has agreed a slate of new deals for the DFB-Pokal club competition ahead of the 2022-23 season, but U-turned on a potential deal with Russian pay-television broadcaster Match TV.
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FOOTBALL: Amazon sheds ‘frugal’ tag with UK Champions League play
FOOTBALL: Relevent aiming for $2.5bn
Amazon sheds ‘frugal’ tag with UK Champions League play
Amazon blew away the competition for rights to the Tuesday-night Champions League rights package in the UK, emerging victorious from what sources described as “the most competitive” process for Uefa club competition rights the market has ever produced.
Relevent aiming for $2.5bn mark in US Champions League process
Relevent Sports Group is targeting revenue of over $400m per season from Uefa club competition rights in the US after being permitted to strike a deal for up to six seasons, SportBusiness Media understands.
Six Nations wins uphill battle to keep French fee flat
The value of Six Nations rights will remain flat in France after protracted negotiations between the tournament organiser and the country’s public-service broadcaster, France Télévisions.
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FOOTBALL: Canal Plus sends message to LFP with huge UCL splash
MOTORSPORT: F1 lives the American dream as Disney pays stratospheric increase
Canal Plus sends message to LFP with huge UCL splash
Canal Plus’s decision to pay a huge increase for Uefa club competition rights in France last week was made with one eye on next year’s Ligue 1 domestic rights tender, experts have told SportBusiness Media.
F1 lives the American dream as Disney pays stratospheric increase
Formula One’s meteoric rise in the US has yielded a media rights fee to match via a new deal with Disney, putting the US behind only the UK and Germany in terms of F1 broadcast revenue.