Europe
Chelsea engages Horizm to maximise digital revenues
English Premier League football club Chelsea has teamed up with digital inventory management company Horizm to identify new digital revenue streams
LiveScore adds to streaming output with Segunda División matches
LaLiga, the governing body of the top two divisions of Spanish football, has signed a deal with global sports update and results provider LiveScore which will see matches from the remainder of 2020-21…
Bayern latest team to star in Amazon series; discovery+ to stream Liverpool documentary
Online retail giant Amazon has announced that German and European champions Bayern Munich will become the latest football club to be the subject of a behind-the-scenes documentary aired on its Amazon Prime…
Deutsche Telekom takes up option to extend 3. Liga rights
Telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom has extended its broadcast rights to German football’s third-tier 3. Liga to include the 2022-23 season.
Danish, Swedish audiences hit heights for all-Nordic handball final
Broadcasters in both Denmark and Sweden pulled in strong audiences for Sunday’s IHF World Men’s Handball Championship final between the two Nordic countries.
Eurosport, GCN strike long-term global deal for Tour of Britain, Women’s Tour
The Tour of Britain and Women’s Tour, the UK’s leading cycling races, have agreed five-year global broadcast rights deals with international sports broadcaster Eurosport and digital platform Global Cyc…
Channel 4 secures free-to-air rights to England tour of India
UK free-to-air broadcaster Channel 4 has completed a deal for non-exclusive rights to England's tour of India, bringing live test cricket to UK free-to-air television for the first time since 2005
Sky gives Netball Superleague ‘greatest visibility to date’ in multi-year renewal
Sky has retained rights to the UK’s Netball Superleague in a multi-year agreement that the pay-television broadcaster says will give the competition “its greatest visibility to date”.
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IMG Arena expands virtual content offering with Euroleague Instant Legends
IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has added more virtual content for betting operators with the launch of a new Euroleague Basketball product
LFP rights bids from Amazon, DAZN and Discovery fall under reserve price
France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has received bids for its domestic broadcast rights from online retail giant Amazon, subscription streaming operator DAZN and international broadcast group D…
Uefa sells Icelandic national team rights to Nent in exclusive streaming deal
Uefa and its appointed CAA Eleven agency have agreed an exclusive broadcast deal in Iceland with Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group for national team rights in the new 2022-28 cycle, with the media group…
Russia’s Sberbank ‘in talks’ to buy Telesport stake
Sberbank, the state-owned Russian banking and financial services company, is reported to have been holding negotiations over the acquisition of a stake in Russian sports marketing agency Telesport
Uefa club competitions media rights hit Polish market
The Team Marketing agency has launched a sales process in Poland for broadcast rights to club competitions in the new 2021-22 to 2023-24 cycle
No Canal Plus or beIN bid in LFP’s rights auction
Pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and beIN Sports have not submitted bids in the controversial domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP).
Impact pivots to streaming model in UK, Ireland with Facebook and YouTube
US promotion Impact Wrestling has announced that its UK and Ireland broadcast model will switch to streaming via Facebook and YouTube, as of this week
BT Sport extends MotoGP rights for three more years
Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has retained rights in the UK and Ireland to motorcycling’s MotoGP series until 2024.
Canal Plus launches second challenge to LFP tender with bids due today
Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has stepped up its challenge to the domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender recently issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) by making an application t…
Joyn adds Sport1+, eSports1 to line-up
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 and US media group Discovery have expanded their relationship with Sport1 to include the latter's Sport1+ and eSports1 channels to the Joyn OTT platform