Europe
BT Sport picks up rights to remainder of Women’s Champions League
UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport will cover the final stages of this season’s Uefa Women’s Champions League, which will feature English club Arsenal.
Euroleague Basketball carves out Lithuanian FTA rights while growing Baltic value
Euroleague Basketball has boosted the value of its rights in the Baltics by carving out free-to-air rights in the valuable Lithuanian market, in deals with media group TV3 and Lithuanian public-service broadcaster LRT.
Arbitrators side with DFL in Discovery-Bundesliga dispute
International media group Discovery has failed in its attempt to terminate its contract with the German Football League (DFL) for domestic German Bundesliga rights, according to a ruling handed down today…
Sky Sports Racing and Ascot go the distance in new rights deal
UK pay-television channel Sky Sports Racing has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal with Ascot Racecourse
Eleven Sports holds on to LaLiga rights in Portugal
Subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports has retained broadcast rights in Portugal to Spain’s LaLiga until the end of the 2023-24 season after winning the rights for another three seasons.
Téléfoot subscription offerings include €14.90 mobile rate
Production and agency group Mediapro’s football-focused French pay-television service, Téléfoot, has announced subscription pricing details ahead of its impending launch, with an offering for mobile dev…
NFL and Sky to launch UK and Ireland channel in five-year rights deal
The NFL and pay-television broadcaster Sky will jointly launch a new dedicated channel in the UK and Ireland as part of a new five-year rights agreement
Swiss Football League sets September date for global rights ITT
The Swiss Football League will launch an invitation to tender for domestic and international media rights, from the 2021-22 season, on September 14
AMC loses exclusivity in renewed F1 deal, as F1 TV Pro to launch
Media group AMC Networks has agreed a new Formula 1 rights deal in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but will lose exclusivity as the premium F1 TV Pro version of the series’ OTT platform will launch i…
LiveScore extends Serie A streaming deal, adds more football rights
Global sports update and results provider LiveScore has renewed an agreement for streaming rights in the UK and Ireland to Italy’s Serie A, and further expanded its football offering with a host of other p…
River Media Partners agency serves up rights deals for UK Pro Series
River Media Partners, the independent media-rights agency recently launched by Nick Chesworth, Dominic Hayes and Ben Nicholas, has sealed a string of broadcast deals for the climax of the UK Pro Series…
Ekstraklasa set to renew domestic rights deals after clubs’ approval
The Polish Ekstraklasa is poised to finalise negotiations with its domestic broadcasters to renew the current deals for a further two seasons, covering 2021-22 and 2022-23
Formula E claims German free-to-air showcase with ProSiebenSat.1 deal
German commercial broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Formula E electric car-racing series
Ziggo retains exclusive LaLiga rights to 2024
Dutch telco Ziggo has renewed its exclusive broadcast rights to Spain’s LaLiga for three more seasons.
DFL Digital Sports recruits ex-Sport1 digital chief Hrstic
DFL Digital Sports, the subsidiary of the German Football League (DFL) responsible for the distribution of the Bundesliga’s digital content, has recruited Ivo Hrstic, previously the director of digital o…
Women’s Eredivisie secures coverage on Fox Sports and NOS
Dutch pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and public-service broadcaster NOS have acquired rights to the Eredivisie Vrouwen, the top division of domestic women’s club football.
Eleven Sports offers free Dutch-language highlights in absence of sublicensing deal
Dutch-language highlights of the first weekend of action from the new Belgian Pro League season were shown free of charge on the league website and by rights-holding broadcaster Eleven Sports after a sublicensing…
Eleven agrees VRT content deal before Pro League kick-off but no Telenet distribution
Flemish public-service broadcaster VRT has tied up a highlights content deal for Belgian football’s top-tier Pro League with Eleven Sports but carriage talks between the subscription broadcaster and t…