Focus switches to Saran as Digiturk fails to take up Süper Lig packages
The Turkish Football Federation has announced that signing rights to various Turkish Süper Lig media rights packages have passed to the Saran agency and Turkish public broadcaster TRT after incumbent …
Blow for Swiss public broadcaster as CH Media nets domestic ice hockey rights
SRF, the German-language arm of Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR, has missed out on a package of sublicensed rights to Switzerland’s top-tier ice hockey league.
PRTV Live launches with eight-camera set-up in ‘first step’ towards aggregated rugby platform
Premiership Rugby’s new global live streaming service will offer matches filmed using an eight-camera high-definition production as the league rolls out its direct-to-consumer strategy that it believes c…
LaLiga ramps up anti-war broadcast messaging, Tebas confident over DAZN financial future
LaLiga has no immediate plans to end its broadcast deal in Russia and will instead try to convey messages to viewers in the country that the Spanish league is firmly opposed to the Russian invasion of…
Digiturk given a week to sign off new Süper Lig deals but bid for main package rebuffed
The Turkish Football Federation has given Digiturk, the Turkish pay-television operator owned by beIN Media Group, until the start of next week to sign agreements for various packages of rights to the…
Coppa Italia coverage secured in Mena by For Media
For Media, the boutique rights agency headed by Emanuele Villari, has brokered a Coppa Italia broadcast rights deal with Abu Dhabi Media in the Middle East and North Africa, SportBusiness understands
Discovery reaches 22m OTT subscribers, international revenues up 22 per cent
Discovery, the US-based media group that owns Eurosport, today (Thursday) reported full-year revenues of $4.54bn (€4.0
IOC to go to market with European broadcast rights next month
The International Olympic Committee is to launch its highly-anticipated European broadcast rights sales process on March 10 and has given prospective bidders a six-and-a-half week turnaround to submit…
DAZN Group reported $1.3bn loss in 2020 despite reduced rights costs
DAZN Group, the global sports subscription service and media company that last week announced $4.3bn (€3.8bn) worth of financial backing from its owner Access Industries, reported a loss of $1.3
Turkish Süper Lig tender prolonged with ’12 revised bids’ for various rights
The Turkish Football Federation has vowed that the broadcast rights to the Turkish Süper Lig will be awarded in a week’s time, after the submission late last week of improved bids for domestic, international an…