Serie B’s Amazon league channel approved
Lega Serie B has finally launched its league channel on Amazon Prime Video, after being granted an initial 12-year licence
CWI gets multi-year media rights security via ESPN
Cricket West Indies has struck a domestic media rights agreement with ESPN until 2030, providing the governing body with the long-term broadcast deal it has craved
DHB sticks with Sportfive through 2030
The Sportfive agency has renewed one of its longest-standing commercial deals, reupping its agreement with the German Handball Federation (DHB) until 2030
Pull of Olympics drives Endeavor Q3 revenues
Hospitality sales related to the Paris 2024 Olympics helped boost revenues at Endeavor, where sports were the biggest driver of growth across the group in an otherwise mixed third quarter.
Shapiro KOs White’s boxing plans… for now
Boxing remains a vertical of interest to TKO but there will be no immediate move into the sport described "at its best as confused and fragmented, at its worst as broken" by president Mark Shapiro.
RiksTV, Viaplay strike 11th hour carriage deal
Viaplay Group's new tougher stance on business-to-business negotiations has paid off, after a carriage deal with RiksTV, the Norwegian pay-television operator, was extended after an intense round of talks
Amazon adds Edelston to European rights team
Former Premier League media rights executive Michael Edelston has quit his role at Formula E to join the sports department at Amazon Prime Video
WTT names Genius’ Tavallai as broadcast director
World Table Tennis (WTT), the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), has appointed Ali Tavallai as its new broadcast director, based in Singapore
US broadcasters poised as Fifa launches WWC tender
Women's World Cup media rights are being sold by Fifa on a standalone basis for the first time in the United States.
JTBC chided for bypassing Korea Pool in rights deals
JTBC's exclusive swoop for Fifa World Cup rights in South Korea has disrupted the joint pool strategy and only served to inflate costs, the country's leading free-to-air broadcasters have claimed.