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Paramount keeps hold of Uefa club competitions in landmark $1.5bn, six-year US rights deal
Paramount Global, owner of the CBS Sports Network and Paramount+ streaming service, has retained English-language rights to Uefa club competitions in a landmark six-year deal worth around $250m (€248.6
Team Marketing prepares to fight through its existential crisis
Team Marketing's contract for the 2024-27 cycle does not contain an automatic renewal clause as it has done in the past, nor does it contain any option for extension. No matter how well it performs, the agency faces an uphill battle to survive.
Amazon sheds ‘frugal’ tag with UK Champions League play
Amazon blew away the competition for rights to the Tuesday-night Champions League rights package in the UK, emerging victorious from what sources described as “the most competitive” process for Uefa club competition rights the market has ever produced.
Relevent aiming for $2.5bn mark in US Champions League process
Relevent Sports Group is targeting revenue of over $400m per season from Uefa club competition rights in the US after being permitted to strike a deal for up to six seasons, SportBusiness Media understands.
Relevent goes to market with US rights to Uefa club competitions
The US media rights sales invitation to tender for Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 onwards, a process being managed by the Relevent Sports agency, has launched today (Monday)
Canal Plus sends message to LFP with huge UCL splash
Canal Plus’s decision to pay a huge increase for Uefa club competition rights in France last week was made with one eye on next year’s Ligue 1 domestic rights tender, experts have told SportBusiness Media.
BBC lands Champions League highlights as BT pays £305m per year for bulk of Uefa rights
UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired highlights rights to the Uefa Champions League for the first time, while pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has announced an extended deal for the bulk…
Double-digit uplift delivered in Canal Plus’ Uefa club rights clean sweep
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has secured exclusive media rights to all Uefa club competitions in the first deal struck by the Team Marketing agency across the new 2024-27 cycle
EXCLUSIVE: 2024-27 Uefa competitions media rights sales to kick off with UK and France
The Team Marketing agency is to go to market in the UK and France with broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions during the 2024-27 cycle just three weeks after the revamped Champions League format was…
RTL nets strong free-to-air audience for Eintracht Frankfurt’s Europa League win
Eintracht Frankfurt’s victory over Rangers in the Uefa Europa League final registered strong ratings in Germany as 8.99 million viewers tuned in to commercial broadcaster RTL.
Sports Channel paying reduced Uefa Champions League fee in Israel
Israel’s Sports Channel is paying a reduced fee for Uefa Champions League rights during the current cycle, bringing the competition’s value back to a more rational level.
Uefa nets gains in Czech Republic, Slovakia; takes hit in Romania
Uefa Champions League fees are up in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kosovo, while a big increase for rights to second and third-tier competitions in Romania mitigated a lower Champions League fee.
Uefa ExCo ratifies award of club competition rights to Team and Relevent
The Uefa Executive Committee has today (Monday) approved the retention of Team Marketing as the commercial rights agency for Uefa club competitions during the 2024-27 cycle, albeit with Relevent Sports…
Uefa club rights retained by Team Marketing, Relevent to be awarded US media rights
The Team Marketing agency is understood to have retained its remit to sell commercial rights to Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27, but with US-based firm Relevent Sports Group to be awarded…
Uefa earning 900-per-cent increase for club competition rights in Armenia
Uefa has secured one of its largest cycle-on-cycle increases in recent years after securing a deal with Armenian newcomer OTT player Vivaro Media, which has made an aggressive entry into the market.
EXCLUSIVE: Uefa club competitions tender enters third round of bidding
The ongoing request for proposals process for the commercial rights to Uefa club competitions from the 2024-25 season onwards is to enter a third round of bidding, SportBusiness understands
EXCLUSIVE: Quartet of heavyweight agency bidders in Uefa club competitions RFP
Four sports marketing agencies are among the leading bidders in the ongoing Uefa club competitions request for proposals following presentations given recently, SportBusiness understands
No guaranteed fees for Uefa as sales agent process sprints to a finish
Uefa and the European Clubs Association’s hopes of receiving a minimum guarantee for rights to Uefa club competitions look to have been dashed after bidders failed to find a cost-effective method of delivering one.