Uefa European Championship
Euro 2024 semi-final reels in year’s top audience in France
France's narrow defeat in the semi-finals of Uefa Euro 2024 drew the strongest television audience of the year to date in the country
ServusTV breaks all-time record for Austrian football audience
Austria’s performances at Euro 2024 have broken audience records in the country for ServusTV, seemingly vindicating the commercial broadcaster’s decision to invest heavily in the exclusive rights back in 2021.
Uefa earns uplift for Euro rights in Vietnam
Vietnamese telco Viettel secured rights to the 2024 Uefa European Championship after agreeing to pay a slight increase on the previous fee, SportBusiness Media has learned.
Broad Euro 2024 exposure in Russia on Match TV, Okko
This summer's Uefa European Championship will receive blanket coverage in Russia following deals struck with Match TV, the Gazprom Media-owned broadcaster, and subscription streaming platform Okko
Rai drives Euro 2024 uplift in Italy
Uefa and the CAA Eleven agency earned a combined uplift in Italy from Rai and Sky Italia for European Championship rights, SportBusiness Media has learned.
Uefa nets big increase for national team rights in Africa
Uefa enjoyed a substantial increase in the value of its national team rights in sub-Saharan Africa in the recent round of sales, with revenues up, on an annualised basis, by about 70 per cent.
ITV profits dive amid ad sales slump, sports content costs down
ITV suffered a 61-per-cent drop in pre-tax profits in 2023 amid an advertising slump and significant investment costs in its ITVX streaming service
Ascending Cazé TV won’t rival established broadcasters for rights buyouts
Agency LiveMode has no plans to compete directly against Brazil’s established media companies for all-encompassing exclusive rights deals despite racking up a powerful audience base on streamer Cazé TV.
Infront strikes Euro 2024 broadcast deal in Indonesia with MNC
Infront has negotiated an exclusive Euro 2024 broadcast deal in Indonesia with media conglomerate MNC Group
CazéTV and Globo to split Euro 2024 rights in Brazil
Fast-growing Brazilian streamer CazéTV has made its latest high-profile football acquisition in a deal for exclusive rights to 25 matches at Euro 2024.
No native UHD production at Euro 2024
Uefa will not produce coverage of Euro 2024 in native ultra high-definition (UHD), instead opting for a single ‘multi-purpose’ broadcast format, SportBusiness can disclose.
Deutsche Telekom to show five Euro 2024 matches exclusively as RTL deal rejigged
Deutsche Telekom has reworked its Euro 2024 sublicensing agreement with commercial broadcaster RTL to allow it to regain exclusivity to five matches from the tournament staged across Germany
MTVA takes Uefa national team spending above €30m
Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA will pay more than €30m for Uefa national team rights over the 2022-23 to 2027-28 cycle, it can be revealed.
RTL adds Euro 2024 qualifiers to football line-up
Commercial broadcaster RTL has topped up its live football offering in Germany, adding rights to 10 matches from the remainder of the Uefa Euro 2024 qualifying campaign
Fifa media rights income trebles since 2002, despite ‘web of corruption’
An analysis conducted by SportBusiness Media shows that the Fifa World Cup’s global media rights value has kept pace with other blue-riband sporting events, despite what the US Department of Justice described as a 'web of corruption' curtailing its value during the 2000s and early 2010s.
Uefa ‘to scale’ back Euro 2028 qualifying over broadcasters’ concerns, Čeferin seeks new term
Uefa is reportedly planning to reduce the size of qualifying groups for Euro 2028 due to a downturn in interest from broadcasters
Uefa, CAA Eleven retain agency strategy with Infront to sell national team rights in Indonesia
Uefa and the CAA Eleven agency have appointed Infront as exclusive media rights agent in Indonesia for national team competitions from this year until 2028
RTVE reduces Qualifiers and Nations League spend in Spain
RTVE assessed that Spanish national team matches – particularly those within the Nations League format – were somewhat overvalued in the previous deal, leading to a slightly decreased value.