Martin Ross

Football

The Asian Football Confederation has moved to defend itself against piracy and ambush marketing with the creation of a working group that will include Tom Liston, former managing director of marketing…
Baseball

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has retained rights to Major League Baseball in France and across 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa
Football

Proximus Media House, an arm of the Belgian telecoms operator, is to be responsible for the production of the new Belgian football channels launched by international broadcaster Eleven Sports as part of…
Football

The final of this season’s Uefa Champions League in Lisbon will receive significant free-to-air coverage in France after the commercial broadcaster TF1 finalised a sublicensing deal with the Altice-owned p…
Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has acquired rights to the second edition of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, SportBusiness understands
Football

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has said that it is not expecting any more substantial rights fee compensation following the disruption to the sporting calendar caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
Table Tennis

World Table Tennis, the new commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation, is continuing conversations with a view to selling further shares to private equity investors
Multi-sport

WAVE.tv, the California-based sports media company, has closed a Series A funding round worth $32m (€27.6m) to help build its roster of media brands and acquire companies.
Football

Twitch, the Amazon-owned online streaming platform primarily associated with esports, has made its most significant move yet in ‘traditional’ sports with the creation of a standalone sports vertical on …
Multi-sport

Alex Peebles, who recently left his position as senior vice-president, Southeast Asia at sports streaming operator DAZN, has been appointed as chief revenue officer at ECAL, the calendar communications…