Analysis

Motorsport

NC Plus has renewed its rights to the three most important speedway properties in Poland – the Speedway World Cup, Speedway Grand Prix and the Polish Ekstraliga – but will share the Ekstraliga with Eleven Sports Network from 2019.

Football

Uefa has earned an increase of about 40 per cent in the value of its Europa League rights in Israel following a renewal with Charlton.

Tennis

The value of US Open tennis rights in Australia and New Zealand increased slightly last month, despite Australian incumbent Fox Sports choosing not to renew its deal.

Football

Football Federation Australia earned a substantial increase in the value of its international media rights in a deal with the IMG agency last month.

Football

The summer of 2017 will prove a critical period in determining where major football rights in Brazil will end up for the next few years. 

Football

Latin America’s major media groups are competing to take ownership of Chile’s successful football league channel, Canal del Fútbol.

UK viewing audiences for the week between Monday 19th and Sunday 25th June. We also look at leading audiences from this year's ICC Champions Trophy. Watching Brief Vol. 163

UK viewing audiences for the week between Monday 12th and Sunday 18th June. We also look at leading audiences in May on free-to-air television and on Eurosport. Watching Brief Vol. 162
Football

Uefa turned down a strong bid from incumbent free-to-air Champions League rights-holder ZDF for its next cycle in Germany, instead accepting an offer from pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland for exclusive rights.

Football

Pay-television platform Sky Italia is thought to have agreed to pay just over €300m ($336m) per season for exclusive rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League from 2018-19 to 2020-21.

Handball

The Sportradar agency launched its B2B OTT service this month – agreeing its first deal with the European Handball Federation – as it plans to roll it out to multiple rights-holders.
Football

SuperSport and Kwesé Sports will once again share the spoils of a major national-team football property in sub-Saharan Africa, this time via a simulcast deal on an unprecedented scale.
American Football

Canadian telco Bell has completed its set of exclusive linear NFL rights after picking up its one missing set of games, on Thursday nights, from rival telco Rogers.

Football

The attempt by MP & Silva to terminate a deal with Fifa for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Italy is being challenged by football’s global governing body, just months after the two appeared to have reached a settlement.

Golf

Pay-television broadcaster DSport has bought rights in India to golf’s US Open for a far higher price than the annual fee Sony Pictures Networks paid in 2016.
Mixed Martial Arts

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has turned the tide to earn a significant increase from its pan-regional pay-television rights deal with Fox Sports Asia.
Tennis

France Télévisions prised prestigious free-to-air tennis rights from M6 late last month, despite paying no increase for the rights.

The French Open secured greater revenue from China in 2017 compared to last year thanks to a deal with online streaming platform Tencent agreed earlier this month.