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FOOTBALL: FA’s WSL carve-out pays dividends in exclusive Sky deal
FOOTBALL: Infront questions private equity as agency’s primacy in football threatened
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FA’s WSL carve-out pays dividends in exclusive Sky deal
The English FA is thought to have achieved a robust fee for rights to the top-tier Women’s Super League in the first domestic rights tender for the property.
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FOOTBALL: Amazon entry cushions Champions League fee decline in Italy
SKIING: Infront draws closer to skiing monopoly as it enters exclusive Swiss Ski talks
Summer Paralympics value holds steady in UK in Channel 4 renewal
UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 kept its outlay flat on summer Paralympics media rights in its renewal for the Paris 2024 edition, SportBusiness Media understands.
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL: NFL rights fee falls in France in beIN renewal
FOOTBALL: Uefa makes huge national team gains in Finland amid fierce competition
NFL rights fee falls in France in beIN renewal
The National Football League has seen a fall in its media-rights income from France in the 2020-23 cycle driven by a decline in the value of its deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN, SportBusiness Media understands.
French basketball seeks ‘reboot’ in one-season free-to-air domestic deals
The French Basketball Federation (FFBB) sacrificed domestic media-rights income from its club competitions in order to reboot the sport in free-to-air deals with digital terrestrial broadcasters L’Équipe TV and ‘Sport in France’, SportBusiness Media understands.
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RUGBY UNION: Amazon’s Autumn Nations Cup swoop triggers speculation over rugby intentions
FOOTBALL: Premier League sees steep discount in short-term China deal
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Amazon’s Autumn Nations Cup swoop triggers speculation over rugby intentions
Tech giant Amazon’s acquisition of UK rights to the Autumn Nations Cup competition has triggered a debate over whether the company will now embark upon a concerted push into rugby.
NFL avoids rights fee fall in Sky’s UK, Ireland renewal
Pay-television broadcaster Sky renewed its NFL media-rights deal in the UK and Ireland at an unchanged fee, SportBusiness Media understands.
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MULTI-SPORT: Covid-19 bursts China bubble amid changing political, economic winds
FOOTBALL: AFC and FMA to renegotiate global rights contract
Ziggo gets discount for LaLiga renewal in Netherlands
Dutch telco Ziggo has secured another fee reduction in its latest renewal of Spanish LaLiga rights amid a lack of competition in the market.