WWE appoints long-serving Fox executive Lilien to SVP, sponsorship sales role
World Wrestling Entertainment has appointed Claudine Lilien, a long-time executive at media group Fox, as senior vice-president and head of global sales and partnerships
LFP to consider mic’d up referees to enhance Ligue 1 product
France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is exploring the possibility of giving Ligue 1 referees microphones in a move to enhance broadcast coverage of the top-tier competition.
SBT adds free-to-air Europa League rights to football portfolio
Brazilian commercial broadcaster SBT has followed up its recent deal for Uefa Champions League rights by reaching an agreement for rights to the Europa League
Sport TV’s losses widen to €5.7m
Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has seen its losses increase by 59 per cent year-on-year.
Sport TV registered a loss of €5.69m ($6.8
Loop acquisition adds to Matchroom’s in-house production capabilities
The Matchroom agency has acquired Loop, the live streaming and production company that it has worked with on various projects
Nascar partners with Grabyo to enhance content capabilities
US stock car racing series Nascar has partnered with cloud video production platform Grabyo to shift its digital video production workflow to a hybrid model.
IOC steps into esports with five international federations, game publishers
The International Olympic Committee has this morning announced that it has partnered with five international sports federations, game publishers and DreamHack Sports Games to launch the first-ever, Olympic-licensed…
Motorsport.tv engages Grabyo for digital news channel services
Motorsport.tv, the OTT streaming platform operated by digital media group Motorsport Network, has recruited cloud video production platform Grabyo to support the launch of its new digital news channel.
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Vivendi ordered to pay €1.7m in damages to Mediaset
French media group Vivendi has been ordered to pay €1.7
Sky Italia chief Ibarra steps down to lead Bain-backed technology firm
Sky Italia chief executive Maximo Ibarra has resigned from his role with the pay-television broadcaster to take up a new role at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, the Italian technology company backed…