SportBusiness Staff

Yes Network, exclusive regional media rights-holder of the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets, has agreed a sublicensing deal with streaming service Willow by Cricbuzz for rights to MI New York’s games in Major League Cricket (MLC).

World Athletics has announced a five-year deal with Indian telco Tata Communications covering host broadcasting services for World Athletics Series events.

UK-based boxing promotion GBM Sports has agreed a multi-fight rights deal with media group and subscription broadcaster DAZN.

Production company Plazamedia has extended its deal with German telco Deutsche Telekom ahead of the start of this summer’s Uefa European Championship, which the latter has rights to through its MagentaTV pay-television platform.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has expanded its coverage of German football by agreeing a rights deal covering the domestic 3. Liga and the men’s U-21 national team.

Cazé TV, the Brazilian streaming platform owned by the LiveMode agency and Brazilian influencer Casimiro, has secured a carriage deal with Amazon.

The United Rugby Championship (URC) has reported its latest audience record as it continues towards a position where it will set a new season benchmark.

Uefa has finalised its broadcast deals in major markets for the European Championships ahead of this Friday's kick-off, with a late deal secured by CAA Eleven with Japanese pay-television broadcaster Wowow and streaming platform Abema.

Premier Sports and BBC Scotland have retained Scottish Cup rights after striking new five-year deals that afford the pay-TV broadcaster a slight increase in match picks.

AI automated sports video production specialist, Spiideo, has completed a $20m (€18.4m) funding round led by German growth equity firm, Cipio Partners.