Europe

Football

Subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports has been able to complete its exclusive swoop for broadcast rights to Belgian football’s Pro League after top-tier club Antwerp signed up to the proposed five-year a…
Football

Sky Italia’s victory this month in its challenge to the restrictions placed on its rights acquisitions by the country’s antitrust authority was comprehensive but not definitive.
Multi-sport

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has said it will allow residential and commercial customers to freeze their subscriptions amid the dearth of live sport on its schedules due to Covid-19
Multi-sport

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has moved to counter the current gap in content left by the cancellation or postponement of a myriad of sporting events in the coming months by launching a dedicated…
Multi-sport

Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub has waived the fee for its sports packages as all of its live sports content is currently postponed due to the Covid-19 virus
Esports

Esports organisations DreamHack and ESL have agreed a media-rights deal for the ESL Pro Tour with Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2
Football

The Bundesliga’s domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender process is to carry on despite the spread of the coronavirus pandemic across Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
Football

Florent Houzot, director of programming at pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France has criticised football’s French Professional League (LFP) for a lack of warning over the move to suspend the c…
Cycling

Pulse Media, an Italian production and media rights distribution company, has acquired the exclusive rights to women’s cycling’s Giro Rosa until at least 2022.
Football

Jaume Roures, the chief executive of Barcelona-based media rights and production agency Mediapro, has warned that cancelling the remainder of the 2019-20 LaLiga season could lead to upwards of €600m (…
Volleyball

The Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV), the sport’s governing body in Europe, has announced its second high-profile rights agreement in as many weeks in a long-term betting streaming and data…
Multi-sport

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) will seek compensation from sports rights-holders if there are “longer-term” postponements or cancellations due to the impact of the global coronavirus outbreak.
Football

The loss of matchday revenues at French Ligue 1 clubs between now and the end of the season would total between €20m ($21.8
Rugby Union

The UK’s Committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has called for rugby union’s Six Nations to be included in the ‘Category A’ list of sports events that must be shown on free-to-air televis…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has responded to the nation’s coronavirus precautions by announcing that it will broadcast matchdays 25 and 26 in the top-tier Primeira Liga on its free-to-air Sport T…
Multi-sport

Shipping magnate and Greek businessman Evangelos Marinakis has pulled out of a deal to acquire telecoms operator Forthnet, the parent company of Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova, after protracted…
Athletics

Greek public broadcaster ERT’s determination to make athletics central to its sporting output drove the broadcaster to join the European Broadcasting Union’s pool for a host of European and World Championship events.
Esports

Germany-based sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to esports events organised by ESL, the tournament organiser and production company