Martin Ross

Archery

World Archery has unveiled details of its new “Lockdown Knockout” tournament involving eight archers taking part from remote locations and sending video streams from their smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Football

Proximus has joined fellow Belgian telecoms operator Telenet in calling for a repayment of a tranche of its broadcast rights fee if the country’s Pro League season is not completed.
Football

The German Football League (DFL) has reached an agreement with “almost all” of its domestic rights-holding broadcasters over instalment payments for this season’s Bundesliga media rights. T
Ice Hockey

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) said today (Thursday) that it has been refunded 100 per cent of its broadcast rights fee for ice hockey’s recently-cancelled 2020 IIHF World Championship.
Multi-sport

Lagardère, the France-based conglomerate, has fully finalised the sale of its sports division to H.I.G. Europe, an arm of the international private equity and asset management firm.
Football

Telenet, the Belgian telecoms operator, has asked for a refund on its advance broadcast rights payment for the country’s Pro League or the provision of broadcast rights next season to the value of the o…
Snooker

The World Snooker Championship has been rescheduled to run from July 31 to August 16 after discussions with stakeholders, including broadcast rights-holders the BBC and Eurosport
Football

Roxana Mărăcineanu, the Minister of Sports of France, has proposed that the country’s mediator for economic and financial affairs attempts to resolve the dispute over rights fee payments between the Pro…
Multi-sport

French media group Vivendi has acquired a 10.6-per-cent stake in Lagardère, the France-based conglomerate that recently sold its sports division to H.I.G.
Multi-sport

First-quarter revenues at pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus rose by 9.6 per cent to €1.37bn ($1.4