Europe

Football

Clubs in the Scottish Premiership will be able to sell coverage of home and away matches on a pay-per-view basis during the 2020-21 season, which gets underway at the weekend
Football

Dutch telco Ziggo has renewed its carriage agreement with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports following months of negotiations
Football

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro and telco Altice have finalised a deal to co-broadcast Uefa club competitions next season in France and allow Altice’s SFR platform to distribute the agency’s new…
Motorsport

International media group Discovery has acquired rights to Extreme E, the electric off-road motor racing series, for the 2021-23 cycle
Badminton

Badminton Europe (BEC), has signed a wide-ranging rights agreement with data and media services company Sportradar that builds on the pre-existing betting and broadcast partnership that has been in place…
Football

Six investment funds are said to have made binding offers to Lega Serie A, governing body of the top division of Italian club football, regarding a media company that would market broadcast rights
Football

Luxembourg-based media company Fuchs Sports has agreed a five-season deal with the French Football Federation for digital rights to National 2 and National 3, the fourth and fifth tiers of the domestic…
Golf

International streaming service GolfTV has launched in Russia on telco Rostelecom’s digital video service, Wink, making it the first country where GolfTV is shown as a linear channel.
Multi-sport

Glen Killane, the new executive director of Eurovision Sport, is looking to emphasise the positioning of the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union, ridding it of a lingering perception among sections…
Handball

DOSB New Media, which operates the online streaming service, Sportdeutschland.TV, has extended its deal for rights in Germany to the country’s second-tier 2. Handball-Bundesliga until 2022-23.
Football

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly reached an agreement with telco Altice to co-broadcast Uefa club competitions next season in France, and allow Altice’s SFR platform to distribute t…
Baseball

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has retained rights to Major League Baseball in France and across 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa
Football

Proximus Media House, an arm of the Belgian telecoms operator, is to be responsible for the production of the new Belgian football channels launched by international broadcaster Eleven Sports as part of…
Football

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has teamed up with RTÉ to launch a new streaming platform to deliver coverage of the League of Ireland Premier Division at what the Irish public-service broadcaster …
Football

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly agreed a carriage deal with social media giant Facebook for the former’s new Téléfoot channel.
Multi-sport

Swiss telecoms operators UPC and Swisscom have reached a distribution agreement for their respective MySports and Teleclub pay-television platforms in a softening of relations between two broadcasters…
Football

The final of this season’s Uefa Champions League in Lisbon will receive significant free-to-air coverage in France after the commercial broadcaster TF1 finalised a sublicensing deal with the Altice-owned p…
Football

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has said that it is not expecting any more substantial rights fee compensation following the disruption to the sporting calendar caused by the Covid-19 pandemic