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IMG loses Premier League Productions business
IMG will lose its long-held and lucrative Premier League broadcast production business from 2026-27 after the English top flight decided to take the operations in-house in a major blow to the agency
Morel steps down as LFP Media boss
Ben Morel, the former Six Nations Rugby and NBA executive, is to step down next year as chief executive of LFP Media, the commercial rights entity of France’s Professional Football League.
‘Made for TV’ Ultimate Championship joins Infront athletics portfolio
Infront has tied down more media rights business in athletics in a two-edition deal to sell international broadcast rights to the new World Athletics Ultimate Championship
Dyn secures exclusive March Madness rights
Dyn Media has bought a package of matches from the 2024-25 NCAA college basketball season on an exclusive basis in Germany, taking over from DAZN.
Sports content on the move in Comcast spinoff
US telco Comcast has announced plans to spin off most its cable networks, which include USA Network, which frequently shows live sports as part of NBC’s media rights deals, and the Golf Channel.
Grand Slam duo stay on ServusTV in WBD deal
ServusTV will continue to sublicense media rights for tennis's Australian Open and French Open in Austria from WBD for the next two years.
White’s Snow League secures first TV deal
The Snow League, a new competition founded by action sports superstar Shaun White, has landed its first media rights deal, a multi-year agreement with NBC Sports in the US.
Pac-12 signs Octagon to lead media rights talks
The new-look Pac-12 Conference has appointed Octagon to lead its media rights negotiations, two years on from a failed broadcast deal and the fallout of the conference
SailGP eyes broadcast growth with raft of deals
SailGP has announced new, or extended, broadcast rights deals across Australia, Brazil, Germany and New Zealand ahead of a 2025 season which it expects to provide “significant further growth” in terms of its audience reach.
McCann follows Harold as LET commercial director
The Ladies European Tour (LET) has a new commercial director after former NBC Sports executive Theresa McCann was hired to replace Fiona Harold, who has joined World Netball.
EuroLeague Women creates DAZN exclusivity
Basketball’s EuroLeague Women has secured a step up in exposure with DAZN coming on board to stream matches globally and add to the existing output on YouTube.
Fifa’s Asian sales process continues with Philippines
Fifa has launched a tender in the Philippines for media rights to the 2026 World Cup, as it enters the last stages of its Asian sales process for the tournament
Autumn Nations Series outstrips Nations League on TF1
France’s narrow win over New Zealand delivered commercial broadcaster TF1 a record audience for an autumn test match and also eclipsed its ratings for the Italy-France Uefa Nations League clash by 2.2 million viewers.
Latency improving for live streaming, report claims
New research carried out in the UK market has found that improvements have been made in lowering the latency for live sports streaming of major events this year
WBD armed with digital content in NBA settlement
Warner Bros. Discovery has settled its lawsuit against the National Basketball Association, bringing an end to the legal saga spurred by the league’s new domestic broadcast deals.
Tech issues hit Netflix amid 65m concurrent Paul-Tyson streams
Viewership on Netflix of the heavyweight bout between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson peaked at 65 million concurrent streams as the streamer endured technical issues on the night, with fans complaining of buffering and freezing.
Disney streaming profits partly offset linear decline
Walt Disney’s streaming business continues to be profitable, partially offsetting a sharp fall in its linear networks' operating income in its fourth-quarter results.
AFA ‘calls time’ on Primera División free-to-air coverage
TV Pública has reportedly been told it will not be able to broadcast matches from the Primera División next season, ending a period of domestic free-to-air coverage of the Argentinian top-flight.