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Mediapro is to launch and manage a €1bn ($1.1bn) fund to be used for the acquisition of sports intellectual property, including media rights, worldwide, the Spanish media and broadcast production group has revealed.

Viaplay is to share coverage in Norway of the upcoming European Women's Handball Championship with TV2, part of the media group's wider strategy of sublicensing rights where possible to recoup fees

The International Olympic Committee hopes that cricket’s inclusion can help it land the stability of a two-cycle rights deal in the Indian subcontinent after a succession of one-cycle contracts with different broadcasters.

Serie A's blackout in France is finally over after L'Équipe, the digital terrestrial and streaming broadcaster, struck a two-season deal with the Italian league.

Caribbean pay-television broadcaster Verticast and regional telcos Flow and Digicel are heading to the courts in the first quarter of 2025 in an anti-competitive lawsuit

Cosm, the immersive technology and entertainment company, has reached an enhanced agreement with the National Football League to show live matches for the rest of the 2024 season.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has agreed a four-year deal with the Football Association to continue to show matches of the Lionesses, the England women’s team.

The European Broadcasting Union today (Monday) announced a new agreement with Fifa covering media rights in five countries for the next two men's World Cups

Kick, which holds an existing relationship with American fighter Max Holloway, has signed a wide-ranging media and sponsorship deal with the UFC

Two Circles has finalised an agreement to acquire the Spring Media agency as it moves into broadcast rights sales for the first time, also adding production and direct-to-consumer streaming capabilities…

Volleyball World maintains that it is prepared to turn to its OTT platform VBTV in a major broadcast market as it continues rights negotiations in three Asian markets plus Italy.

Emilio Azcárraga has stepped down as executive chairman of Televisa amid a US Department of Justice probe into the Mexican media giant’s historic Fifa World Cup broadcast rights deal.

The European Broadcasting Union's new Tour de France deal will continue to ensure free-to-air coverage in 13 countries, but Warner Bros. Discovery is set to enjoy UK exclusivity as long-running coverage by EBU member ITV comes to an end.

Nelonen has acquired exclusive media rights in Finland to the 4 Nations Face-Off, the first broadcast deal done in Europe for the new ice hockey tournament.

A Norwegian blackout of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup season-opener in Sölden, Austria has been averted after the VG TV platform of newspaper VG bought the rights.

Australian commercial free-to-air broadcaster Nine is to introduce advertising content across all of its platforms, including subscription streaming service Stan Sport. 

Iris Sport Media has announced its expansion into Asia with the senior appointment of Spring Media’s Tricia Chuah, while the agency has detailed a raft of other hires.

Endeavor Group is to sell three of its major businesses, including the IMG agency, to TKO, the entity it spun off last year to house WWE and UFC and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.