Analysis

Tennis

Sports broadcaster Eurosport will continue to be the home of all four Grand Slams across much of Europe after media group Warner Bros. Discovery renewed its Wimbledon rights across 11 territories at a slight uplift. 
Football

The 2.1 million first-season subscriber target for Ligue 1’s mooted D2C channel has been questioned by one of France’s most experienced sports rights executives, while the league’s own clubs have cast doubts on the viability of the proposal.
Football

Lega Serie B’s “final offer to the market” will likely end in reduced domestic rights fees for the second division of Italian club football, though the league is hoping a key change in its approach will result in belated deals ahead of the new season.
Football

The US’s top-tier National Women’s Soccer League has achieved a substantial increase in its media rights fees, though the cash value of its agreements is understood to be short of the ‘40x’ total uplift that has been reported.
Football

Experts polled by SportBusiness Media say there is a growing disparity between how buyers and sellers value women's football media rights, resulting in stalemates at negotiating tables and leaving the sector at significant risk of plateau.
Basketball

Nearly 70 per cent of the NBA's social media engagement across central, team and player accounts comes from outside the United States, with its roster of international stars making the league a truly global attraction.
Motorsport

DAZN secured Formula 1 rights in Portugal three years after Eleven Sports, which it now owns, had relinquished the rights in the face of fee escalation.
Motorsport

SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving the commercial success of Formula 1.
Motorsport

F1 won big as the national popularity of Max Verstappen and the subscriber numbers he helps bring to the pay-television market in the Netherlands sent Viaplay and VodafoneZiggo into a fierce nose-to-nose battle for the rights.
Football

DAZN staved off competition from Sky Italia to renew its exclusive LaLiga rights in Italy for five further years at a slight uplift.
Football

Vietnamese telco Viettel secured rights to the 2024 Uefa European Championship after agreeing to pay a slight increase on the previous fee, SportBusiness Media has learned.
Football

DAZN renewed its exclusive LaLiga rights in Portugal for five years, following two previous three-year deals, in the face of competition from rival Sport TV. 
Football

In the second of a three-part series looking at challenges for rights-holders in the current market, we look at the German Bundesliga’s strategies to ‘tame the bear’.
Multiple Sports

In the first of a three-part series looking at the challenges for rights-holders in a bear market, we ask if sport should do the unthinkable in search of value: take content off social media platforms.
Football

Uefa secured an excellent uplift for rights to Euro 2024 and Euro 2028 in the UK, capitalising on record audiences and the promise of a UK-hosted tournament in 2028. 
Tennis

BeIN Sports renewed its exclusive Wimbledon rights in France for a further five years after agreeing to pay a slight uplift.
Football

The future viability of the European Leagues centralised international media rights project is up for debate, after SportBusiness Media revealed two of the biggest participants were jumping out of the pool after just one cycle.
Football

Uefa and the CAA Eleven agency earned a combined uplift in Italy from Rai and Sky Italia for European Championship rights, SportBusiness Media has learned.