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The International Association of Athletics Federations has teamed up with online telephone service Skype to launch a dedicated Skype bot called Spikes.

Football’s English Premier League has obtained a High Court order that will require UK internet service providers (ISPs) to block servers that are hosting illegal streams of matches.

The upcoming World Para Athletics Championships are set to be broadcast by more rights-holders than ever before, the International Paralympic Committee has revealed.

The Wimbledon Channel, the All England Club’s digital news channel dedicated to the Wimbledon Championships, will be available to view live on the Twitter social media website for the duration of the 2017 edition of the tennis grand slam

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has struck a three-season extension to its rights deal with the Premier League, the top division of English club football.

The England and Wales Cricket Board’s media-rights sales process for international and domestic cricket for the five-year period spanning 2020 to 2024 is set to close tomorrow (Wednesday), with competition between pay-television broadcasters Sky and BT Sport reportedly set to push the contract past the £1bn (€1.13bn/$1.26bn) mark.

Online streaming platform Sina Sports has struck a strategic partnership with the All England Club, which operates the Wimbledon Championships.

Organisers of the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, will stream live coverage of the multi-sport event through the WorldParaAthletics.org website.

Chelsea secured a payment of more than £150.8m (€177.4m/$194.8m) for winning the English Premier League in 2016-17 as the first season of the football competition’s new rights cycle took hold.

Ascot Racecourse has agreed an exclusive broadcast rights deal with the Sina Sports division of Chinese internet operator Sina covering the forthcoming edition of British horseracing showpiece Royal Ascot.

Football’s English Premier League has stepped up its efforts to prevent piracy of its content by partnering with digital platform security specialist Irdeto.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has held talks with all major terrestrial and subscription broadcasters, along with new media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as it seeks to draw up a rights strategy for its new Twenty20 tournament.

Football’s English Premier League has won the latest round of its battle to clamp down on piracy of its audiovisual content after London’s High Court approved its request to shutdown unlicensed streams online.

Manchester United has hired senior Yahoo executive Phil Lynch as its new chief executive of media as the English Premier League football club seeks to roll out a subscription-based application that will allow its in-house television channel, MUTV, to be available worldwide.

Football’s English Premier League has claimed the latest win in its ongoing battle against piracy of its broadcasts with three suppliers of pre-loaded Internet Protocol TV boxes ordered to pay a total of £267,000 (€310,000/$332,000) by the courts for infringing copyright.

The English Football League, which operates the three divisions below the top-tier Premier League, has appointed London-based Oliver & Ohlbaum as its domestic broadcast adviser.