Cooler market, audience slump hit Rugby World Cup rights in Australia
TV Sports Markets acquired as part of wider takeover of SportBusiness Group
TV Sports Markets has new owners following the completion of the acquisition of its parent company SportBusiness Group by Silva International Investments, the investment group owned by sports and media entrepreneur Riccardo Silva.
Watching Brief | Vol.95
Sky and BT send Premier League rights fees soaring again
The UK pay-television market delivered another sensational boost to English Premier League revenues yesterday with new live domestic media rights deals worth £5.136bn ($7.8bn/€6.9bn) over the three seasons from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
French football and media industries react to the Ligue 1 deals
Leading figures from the French football and media industries voiced strong and colourful opinions on last week's Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 domestic media rights deals to local media
Ligue 1’s Ficot: The market has spoken, but our momentum is positive
The LFP believes the outcome of last week’s auction for the media rights to Ligue 1 was a moderate success, and that it could not have done much better given market conditions
Ligue 1 says it is ‘satisfied’ with modest increase as beIN holds its fire
Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market
All change in rugby, cricket and football
If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.
SBS interest is strong but cannot dislodge EBU
SBS shows interest in skating but not enough to shake off EBU
Mexico finally set to open up
Mexico could finally be opened up to competition after regulatory intervention