Europe

Swimming

Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to the new franchise-based International Swimming League
Ice Hockey

European ice hockey tournament the Champions Hockey League is keen to secure exposure in both China and Russia and has praised the “huge reach” of 26 broadcast deals covering 63 territories as it heads int…
Tennis

Internet giant Amazon will pay more than public-service broadcaster France Télévisions for a substantially smaller package of rights to the French Open’s 2021-23 cycle.
Football

Italian telecoms company TIM is in talks to carry live Serie A football content from the DAZN streaming service on its video-on-demand platform, it has been reported
Football

The Ekstraklasa, the top division of Polish club football, has officially launched its new OTT platform for international markets, setting a price of €2.99 ($3.3
Football

Quadruple play service provider YouSee has sublicensed rights to Germany’s Bundesliga in Denmark from the Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group, adding to its coverage of the English Premier League.
Football

Greek Super League football club PAOK will stream its first match of the forthcoming season on the club’s OTT platform, as it enters the 2019-20 campaign without a TV rights deal in place.
Football

Streaming service DAZN’s two-season Bundesliga sublicensing deal with US media group Discovery has strengthened its position in Germany and Austria ahead of the league’s upcoming domestic tender.
Football

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland and Berlin-based digital platform Onefootball have unveiled details of their pay-per-view streaming agreement, with live games from the second-tier 2
Volleyball

Subscription OTT operator DAZN has picked up pay-TV rights in Italy to the European Volleyball Confederation’s (CEV) men’s and women’s European Championships. T
Football

The Mediapro agency has struck carriage deals with Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Deion Comunicaciones and Telecable for its LaLiga TV Bar channel, which provides football coverage in public places
Football

The IMG agency has sold a package of Spain’s LaLiga and Italy’s Serie A rights to Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2, further increasing its income from the Nordic region.
Basketball

Germany’s Women’s Basketball Bundesliga (DBBL) has agreed a 10-year rights deal with sports production and live streaming company Sporttotal.
Football

German subscription broadcaster Sportdigital has rebranded itself as Sportdigital Fussball (‘Football’) to reflect a programming line-up now entirely focused on live coverage of different international foo…
Football

The Football Association of Wales has agreed a deal with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC for rights to the women’s team’s qualifying campaign for the Uefa 2021 European Championship.
Football

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland will continue to distribute in public establishments Bundesliga matches that have been recently acquired by streaming service DAZN, until a longer-term…
Football

The Court of Milan has definitively rejected Italian public-service broadcaster Rai’s appeal against the sublicensing agreement between pay-television broadcaster Sky and commercial and pay-television g…
Football

Spain’s LaLiga has secured a short-term deal in the UK with commercial broadcaster ITV, whilst it continues its search for a longer-term deal.