Europe

Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has confirmed its chairman, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, and other officials have been the subject of “malicious hacks and threats”.
Football

The two domestic rights-holders to the Coupe de France knockout clubs competition, France Télévisions and Eurosport, have yet to pay last season’s final fee instalment, with the broadcasters maintaining the…
Football

Cypriot telco Cyta has retained exclusive broadcast rights to English football’s Premier League for another three seasons.
Multi-sport

Setanta Sports Eurasia and Georgian pay-television broadcaster Adjarasport are to launch a new OTT platform across 13 Eastern European and Asian countries
Volleyball

Volleyball World has announced that it has signed major long-term deals with the top-tier professional men’s and women’s volleyball leagues in Italy. 
Football

German football’s DFB-Pokal is set to continue to be showcased on public-service television with ARD and ZDF said to have secured two packages of live rights from 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Football

Germany pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland and OneFootball have extended an agreement that will allow the football-focused digital platform to continue to offer Sky’s live coverage of the second-tier 2…
Motorsport

WRC Promoter, the commercial rights-holder of the FIA World Rally Championship, has extended its agreement for exclusive live media rights in the UK with pay-television broadcaster BT Sport for three years,…
Football

Arena Sport, the pay-television broadcaster owned by Serbian telecoms operator Telekom Srbija, has landed rights in the Balkan region to the English Premier League in a six-season deal
Football

Boutique media rights agency Sports Media Venture will be the global distributor of media rights to Uefa club competition home qualifiers for PSV Eindhoven and Vitesse Arnhem as well as summer home friendly…
Tennis

IMG Tennis has unveiled plans to host the inaugural IMG Future Stars tennis event next year at the Tatoï Club in Athens, Greece.
Football

The Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of domestic football, has opted to activate a four-year contract extension that will see pay-television broadcaster Sky remain its main rights-holder
Basketball

Subscription streaming broadcaster DAZN has extended and expanded its broadcast rights agreement for North American basketball’s NBA in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Multi-sport

LaLigaSportsTV, the OTT streaming platform of LaLiga, organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has agreed a carriage deal with telco Vodafone’s pay-television arm.
Football

The IMG agency has been awarded damages to compensate for lost rights fees in its lawsuit against the German arm of TUI Cruises following its live broadcasts of 2018 Fifa World Cup and 2019 Women’s World C…
Skiing

ORF, the Austrian public-service broadcaster, has secured rights to FIS World Cup events organised by Swiss-Ski, the Alpine country’s national ski federation.
Football
Media

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has ordered the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to amend the terms of an invitation to tender it has launched fo…
Multi-sport

The Discovery media group has further widened coverage of the forthcoming Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games across digital media platforms in Europe by agreeing a new content and advertising deal with video-streaming…