Uefa Champions League

Football
Global

The multi-billion dollar global media-rights landscape around Uefa’s Champions League and Europa League is analysed in forensic detail in an essential new report from SportBusiness Consulting, which w…
Football
Italy

Italian state broadcaster Rai has reportedly launched a fresh appeal against pay-television broadcaster Sky’s sublicensing agreement with commercial and pay-television group Mediaset for rights to the U…
Football
Spain

Italian pay-TV broadcaster Mediaset has secured a licencing deal for non-exclusive coverage of Spanish LaLiga, and Uefa Champions League and Europa League matches for its new Spanish OTT platform, Mitele…
Football
Italy

Sky Italia is taking a calculated gamble in agreeing a two-year sublicensing deal with Mediaset for Uefa Champions League rights. Sky’s legal dispute with Italian public-service broadcaster Rai over the latter's option to renew the rights has not yet been resolved. If Rai eventually wins, it could sue Sky for damages.
Football
Portugal

Portuguese commercial broadcaster TVI has extended an agreement with international sports broadcaster Eleven Sports for free-to-air carriage of football’s Uefa Champions League.
Football
Italy

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is reportedly nearing a deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia to sublicense selected rights to football’s Uefa Champions League.
Football
Spain

Spanish competition regulator the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC) has threatened Spanish telco Telefónica with sanctions over alleged overcharging for access to rights for the 2…
Multi-sport
Global

Social media giant Facebook’s challenges around its Copa Libertadores coverage in Latin America have convinced it that non-exclusive rights models form “one of the best ways” of breaking into markets where entrenched viewing habits restrict the potential for exclusive rights to grow engagement with the platform.
Football
Europe

European Club Association (ECA) chairman Andrea Agnelli has accused Europe’s top 5 leagues of ‘protectionism’ in opposing plans to reform Uefa club competitions (UCC) post-2024 and disputed suggestions that …
Football
Latin America

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape in Latin America.
Football
Latin America

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape in Latin America.
Football
Italy

Mediaset ‘at the window’ for Champions League as Rai-Sky renewal talks stall Broadcaster is thought to have offered uplift on Rai’s €40m per season Refi
Motorsport
Greece

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT will recoup almost a quarter of its investment on the first two years of its deal for Formula One motor racing championship rights in a ‘cash plus content’ sublicensing agreement with pay-television broadcaster Cosmote.
Football
Greece

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT and pay-television broadcaster Cosmote have agreed sublicensing deals involving rights to the Champions League, Europa League and Formula One
Football
Asia

Perform-owned online football platform Goal has struck a partnership with Twitter for streaming of Uefa Champions League games in Asian markets on the social media service
Football
Portugal

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports may have fallen on hard times in the UK and Ireland, but its opportunistic acquisition strategy has cleared a pathway to success in Portugal's broadcast market
Football
Australia

Telco Optus will trial the live streaming of Uefa Champions League and Europa League via social media platform Twitter and video-sharing website YouTube in what it claims is a first for football coverage…
Football
Asia

The beIN Media Group has so far been the main beneficiary of the DAZN Group’s decision to delay the launch of its OTT service in Southeast Asia.