Ireland’s Virgin Media retains wide-ranging Champions League output
Ireland’s Virgin Media Television has been awarded rights to 166 live Uefa Champions League matches each season across the new cycle running from 2024-25 to 2026-27.
Viaplay Denmark hikes subscription cost by 11 per cent
Viaplay Denmark is raising the price of its all-encompassing subscription package by 11 per cent to DK499 (€66.95/$72.04) per month.
TVP finally negotiates Ekstraklasa free-to-air rights sublicensing
Matches from Poland’s Ekstraklasa are returning to free-to-air television in the country after TVP finally settled the details of a sublicensing agreement with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.
Sky locks up Premier League rights to 2028 in DACH region
Premier League broadcast rights have been retained in German-speaking countries by Sky Deutschland until the end of the 2027-28 season
DAZN to distribute Courtside 1891 internationally in six-year Fiba tie-up
DAZN has followed up its 10-year deal to distribute NFL Game Pass with a similar agreement to carry the International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba’s) Courtside 1891 basketball OTT streaming platform globally.
Study: UK viewing time for women’s sports up 16 per cent
The average UK viewing time for women’s sport across free-to-air and pay-television rose by 16 per cent in 2023, driven in large part by the bumper audiences for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup.
MyCujoo co-founder Presa leaves DAZN Group
MyCujoo co-founder Pedro Presa is leaving the DAZN Group nearly a decade on from establishing the long-tail football streaming platform
Schibsted exits ‘risky’ Viaplay investment
Norwegian media group Schibsted has withdrawn its short-lived investment in Viaplay, the embattled pay-television broadcaster refocusing its core business on the Nordic region
Mediapro mired in C$250m Canadian football litigation as CPL future uncertain
Mediapro faces a legal claim from Canadian Soccer Business amounting to C$250m ($186m/€172m) over the premature end to the agency’s 10-year contract for the production, broadcast and distribution of Canadian football.
Team takes Uefa club competition rights to market in raft of Asian territories
Team Marketing has gone to market simultaneously with Uefa club competition broadcast rights in 13 different Asian countries and territories as it begins to wrap up the 2024-27 sales cycle