Europe

Rugby Sevens

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights to the World Rugby Sevens Series
Football

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ is to show the national team’s play-off for this summer’s Euro 2020 football championship.
Multi-sport

International media company Discovery has opened a new technology hub in the Dutch city of Hilversum to store and distribute live sporting productions. Discovery has invested close to €40m ($44.5
Multi-sport

Live events accounted for 71 per cent of all video views during the Olympic Channel’s coverage of the recent Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Swiss city of Lausanne, with viewers' average watch time i…
Motorsport

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has retained exclusive rights to motor racing’s Formula 1 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while also securing the rights in Finland and Iceland in the broadcaster’s lat…
Motorsport

International sports streaming service DAZN has renewed an agreement for MotoGP rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Football

The Team Marketing agency has initiated the sales process for broadcast rights in the Nordics to Uefa club competitions across the 2021-22 to 2023-24 cycle, SportBusiness understands
Football

Further details of the inventory on offer in the Bundesliga’s forthcoming domestic broadcast rights tender process were released today by the German Football League (DFL).
Multi-sport

The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of the continent’s public-service broadcasters, has moved to intervene in the financial struggles encountered by UA:PBC, the national broadcaster in Ukraine.
Multi-sport

Telia customers throughout the Nordic region have lost access to Eurosport’s channels after the telco failed to reach a new carriage deal with the international sports broadcaster’s parent company, US …
Boxing

International sports streaming service DAZN has announced that its new global service, which will initially be focused on boxing, will launch in over 200 countries in time for Saul 'Canelo' Álvarez’s su…
Multi-sport

Tribe Sports Marketing, the boutique sports agency created in 2019, has acquired a minority stake in Sportswik as part of a wider long-term agreement with the Swedish sports technology company
Football

The Belarusian Football Federation (ABFF) has sold broadcast rights to the domestic Premier League on an exclusive basis for the first time after agreeing a deal with telco Beltelecom
Motorcycling

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has agreed a two-year extension to its rights deal for motorcycling's FIM Motocross World Championship
Football

German football’s DFB Pokal will return to French television this week after rights were acquired by L’Équipe, the Groupe Amaury-owned free-to-air digital terrestrial channel.
Volleyball

The Infront agency has finalised a 12-year global media-rights and production agreement understood to be worth €106m ($115.8
Rugby Union

Six Nations Rugby, organising body of the annual national team tournament, has refused to rule out the possibility that live rights to the championship could go behind a paywall against the backdrop of…
Esports

The 7Sports subsidiary of German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has retained rights to esports events organised by ESL, the tournament organiser and production company, until at least 2022