Europe

Futsal

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has signed an agreement with public-service broadcaster RTVE for the broadcast of a range of futsal competitions
Football

The Russian Premier League has bolstered its international reach through a deal in Greece with Cosmote, the pay-television broadcaster and telecoms operator
Football

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has secured rights to the Netherlands’ qualifying matches for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup and the Uefa Women’s Euro 2025. T
Football

A Dutch court has ordered that the VoetbalTV OTT platform, which showed amateur football matches, does not need to pay a €575,000 ($674,000) fine levied against it by the country’s Data Protection Aut…
Football

Pay-television operator Canal Plus is reported to be willing to pay about €700m ($831.5
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

Mixed martial arts promotion, the Professional Fighters League, has announced broadcast rights renewals for the 2021 season in Spain, Latin America, New Zealand and the Czech Republic
Football

BeIN Media-owned broadcaster Digiturk has agreed to increase its fee for Turkish Süper Lig rights for the 2020-21 season to help keep the league’s struggling clubs afloat.
Football

Telecoms operator Orange has signed a commercial premises deal with over-the-top streaming platform DAZN for rights to the English Premier League’s 2020-21 season in Spain.
Football

Italian football’s Lega Serie A today (Monday) issued the invitation to tender document for the league’s international broadcast rights from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Sport Climbing

The International Federation of Sport Climbing has agreed a last-minute deal with Polish public-service broadcaster TVP for the rights to the IFSC European Championships which begin today (Monday)
Esports

International broadcaster Eleven Sports will show Pro League esports matches on its linear channels dedicated to the top-tier of Belgian league football, it said on Friday
Swimming

LiveWire Sport, the UK-based digital content agency, has said that it is prepared to initiate court proceedings in England or Switzerland against the International Swimming League over debts it claims…
Handball

Swiss pay-television broadcaster MySports had signed new media rights deals for second-tier European Handball League club competition, the EHF European League, and sailing’s America’s Cup.
Multi-sport

An appeal by pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia against a ban on it acquiring exclusive digital media rights has been thrown out by Italy’s Council of State.
Esports

Blast Premier, the esports tournament organiser, has announced a rights agreement with the BBC for coverage of the final three Counter Strike: Global Offensive events of its 2020 season on the UK public-service…
Football

Clubs from Italy’s Lega Serie A have accepted the offer from private equity companies including CVC Capital Partners for a 10-per-cent stake in a new entity that will manage its media-rights business.
Football

Sports technology provider Deltatre has acquired a majority stake in Sportec Solutions, the joint venture it set up with the German Football League (DFL) to collect and innovate around match data
Football

Spanish sports media group Imagina, parent company of the Mediapro agency and production firm, has publicly acknowledged that former executives paid bribes to secure broadcast rights to Fifa World Cup…