SportBusiness Media staff

Multi-sport

European pay-television broadcaster Sky recorded both revenue and subscriber increases for the fourth quarter of 2019, but a fall in total revenue for the full year, according to results presented today…
Basketball

Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai has expressed his desire for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV to resume its coverage of the NBA basketball league amid the continued fallout caused by a tweet sent last year…
Padel

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired rights for the World Padel Tour, a global organiser of events featuring the racquet sport, which is popular in Spanish-speaking countries
Skiing

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has agreed a rights deal with the Ski Classics series of long-distance skiing events. The agreement begins with this weekend’s Marcialonga event in Italy.
Golf

The PGA Tour has announced an expansive agreement with Facebook to distribute daily highlight packages globally on Facebook Watch in 2020, starting at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open.
Multi-sport

Sports media services company Fanview has appointed European Championships Management co-founder and director Paul Bristow as its new non-executive chairman
Rugby Union

Rugby Australia has engaged the Media Rights Value organisation to help with negotiations for its next domestic rights contract amid reports that pay-television broadcaster Foxtel may end its long-running…
Motorsport

The Formula One motor-racing series experienced a drop-off of 19.2 million unique television viewers during the 2019 season
Equestrian

International equestrian sports network Horse & Country TV (H&C) has acquired US equestrian streaming provider EQ Sports Net (EQSN), a deal it says will offer fans of the sport an experience unmatched…
Volleyball

Sports content, technology and integrity services company Genius Sports will launch its first live sports streaming platform in Asia under an expanded agreement with the Philippine SuperLiga (PSL) club…