Europe

Cricket
Pakistan

The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a series of international media-rights deals covering cricket played in the country during the 2021 to 2023 period
Rugby Union
France

The executive board of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has approved the issuing of a domestic broadcast rights auction for the top-tier Top 14 in a sales process launched in the same week as t…
Football
Iceland

Uefa club competition rights in Iceland will be shared between the Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group and media company Sýn, from the 2021-22 season onwards.
Tennis
Germany

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has extended its rights deal for men’s tennis’ ATP Cup, securing live pay-television rights to this year’s tournament in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. S
Motorsport
Spain

DAZN, the OTT subscription platform, and telco Telefónica have signed a sprawling alliance that could change the face of Spain’s sports broadcasting landscape, beginning with an exclusive sublicensing de…
Handball
Poland

A broadcast rights deal has been negotiated in Poland for the ongoing IHF World Men’s Handball Championship after TVP, the country’s public broadcaster, and the Sportfive agency had been unable to str…
Multi-sport
United Kingdom

Online retail giant Amazon secured almost half of all new UK subscriptions to streaming services in the final quarter of last year, according to new data. The UK witnessed almost 1
Football
France

The domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender issued last night by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) includes the requirement for a bank guarantee from bidders and a shareholder guarantee, w…
Football
Spain

The Mediapro agency has ‘opened talks’ with LaLiga, the governing body of Spain’s top two professional football tiers, over a reduction in its rates for rights to broadcast matches in public spaces. T
Tennis
Greece

The ATP has secured a strong fee increase in its latest renewal with Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote.
Football
United Kingdom

The English Premier League will continue to make available all its matches for broadcast in the UK until at least the last weekend of February
Multi-sport
Ireland

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ posted a net deficit of €7.2m ($8.7m) for 2019, according to its recently released annual report. The broadcaster’s deficit for the previous year stood at €13m. RTÉ’s
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
France

RMC Sport, the French subscription broadcaster owned by telco Altice, has signed a new rights deal for mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship in the wake of the lifting of the MMA broadcast b…
Football
France

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has launched its invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights for the remainder of the 2020-24 cycle after the collapse of its previous contract with a…
Football
Switzerland

The Swiss Super League has agreed to increase the number of match slots from 2021-22 in its new domestic rights deal with telco Swisscom, preventing a potential dramatic dip in revenue amid an uncompetitive environment.
Ice Hockey
Sweden

Sports technology entrepreneur Aidan Cooney and Geltis, the Swedish private investment company, are among a group of new investors in Sportway, the Swedish automated production and live streaming firm…
Football
Oceania

Broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand have been asked to lodge their first-round bids for Uefa Champions League rights by the middle of next month following the launch of the sales process by the Team…
Football
Turkey

The Asian Football Confederation has announced a rights deal with Turkish pay-television broadcaster D-Smart to broadcast AFC competitions in the country from 2021 to 2024