Europe

Russian OTT streaming platform Okko has named Oleg Manzha as head of its subscription sports arm Okko Sport

Nicklas Norrby, Discovery’s chief executive in the Nordic region, is leaving his position, it has been announced.

Bild, the German newspaper and publisher owned by the Axel Springer group, is to stream live coverage of Bayern Munich’s matches at the forthcoming Fifa Club World Cup.

The domestic media rights to the top tier of Portuguese football are set to be centralised from the 2027-28 season onwards in a breakthrough move agreed between the league and the country’s football g…

UK sports rights experts say the English Premier League will delay its domestic media rights auction until April or May with a view to having deals in place prior to Euro 2020, which begins on June 11.

An additional sales process for internet rights in Italy to the second-tier Uefa Europa League and new third-tier Europa Conference League for the 2021-24 cycle is to be issued

Events promotion company Matchroom Sport has created a media production arm that will adopt the Matchroom brand

The collapse in December of the French football league’s media-rights deal with Mediapro is the biggest market setback suffered by a European league for nearly two decades – since the failure of the ITV Digital pay-television platform nearly bankrupted the English Football League in 2002.

Sport in France, the free-to-air television channel owned by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), has agreed a digital content deal with public-service broadcaster France Télévisions.

TV4 Media, a Telia-owned broadcasting company, has acquired exclusive rights in Finland, Norway and Sweden to WTA women’s tennis events.

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has initiated its legal challenge to the domestic broadcast rights tender recently issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) in a move that threatens t…

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has introduced more stringent financial guarantee measures and altered the payment schedule in its recently-launched domestic rights tender in the wake of the c…

ServusTV, the commercial free-to-air broadcaster in German-speaking countries, has recruited Slaven Paunovic, the experienced sports rights agency executive, as its head of channel and programme distribution

Subscription streaming operator DAZN has acquired broadcast rights in Germany to next month’s rescheduled Fifa Club World Cup, ending the prospect of a broadcast blackout for the tournament in one of E…

Dutch pay-television operator and telco Ziggo has launched a new tennis channel and renewed a wide-ranging carriage and streaming agreement with media group Discovery, bolstering its sports offering from…

Saran Media Group, the Istanbul-based media-rights agency, has secured rights in Turkey to the inaugural season of the electric touring car racing series, Pure ETCR