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Viewership for initial matches paces far ahead of 2018 tournament

Mountrigi has profited from its Fifa media rights investment across the 2019-22 cycle, but is expected to earn far more from its rights to the 2026 Fifa World Cup held across the US, Mexico and Canada.

Mixed martial arts promotion Bellator will receive its first exposure on US network television with the announcement that CBS will broadcast its opening event of 2023. Bellator 290: Bader vs

Fifa has agreed what it claims is a landmark deal for its Fifa+ streaming service to provide the entire 2022 World Cup for free in Brazil, while content agreements have also been signed with the Disney…

Qatar Airways, the state-backed airline, will sponsor Fox Sports' coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in the United States, it has emerged

Live-streaming audio service TuneIn has secured an agreement with Fox Sports to simulcast the network's English-language commentary in the United States of the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Qatar

The National Women's Soccer League announced its 2023 scheduling framework, including the UKG Challenge Cup running concurrently with the regular season rather than as operating like before as a preseason…

The National Football League's inaugural regular-season game in Germany last weekend proved a huge success locally across a series of key metrics

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports México has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal with the Formula 1 motor-racing championship.

Tech giant Apple has gained the rights to place the Apple TV logo on the sleeves of all 29 Major League Soccer teams as part of the landmark, 10-year global rights deal between the two parties.

Global media platform OneFootball has signed a content sharing deal with Concacaf, marking its first such agreement with a continental governing body

Executive says a league rights renewal has to be a 'deal for the future'

Germany event posts record for international games on league-owned network

Concacaf, the governing body for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, has signed a four-year extension to its agreement with Host Broadcast Services, the Infront-owned sports broadcast…

Parties intend to build 'the premier global multisport production studio'

TelevisaUnivision has announced its dominant share of American soccer viewership on United States television, helping to further some of the goals laid out in the companies' large-scale merger last year

Athletes Unlimited, the startup with multiple professional women’s sports leagues, is expanding the reach of its volleyball vertical by securing a domestic rights agreement with ESPN for that competition a…

Global entertainment platform DAZN has reached an agreement to broadcast all matches from Australia’s National Basketball League across Europe. DAZN has also acquired the NBL rights in Canada.