Europe

Football
United Kingdom

Spanish football’s LaLiga launched on Wednesday a tender for rights in the UK and Ireland to the Primera División and the six-match promotion playoffs for 2019-20 to 2021-22, which includes free-to-air an…
Football
Belgium

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired exclusive live rights in Belgium and Luxembourg to this year’s edition of the International Champions Cup pre-season football tournament.
Golf
United Kingdom

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky will continue to broadcast The Open golf major until 2024 after agreeing a three-year deal with rights-holder the R&A
Football
Germany

Bundesliga International's head of global audiovisual rights has poured cold water on suggestions planned reforms of European club football competitions would unlock €1.3bn in additional revenues.
Basketball
Belgium

OTT platform and betting services company Sportradar and sports tech provider PlaySight have signed a deal with Belgium’s top-tier EuroMillions Basketball League to produce, augment and distribute its c…
Multi-sport
France

France’s Canal Plus Group confirmed on Tuesday plans to cut around 20 per cent of its workforce in its home country as it adjusts to growing competition in the pay-television market.
Football
Italy

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has elected to continue talks with Spanish agency Mediapro over its offer for domestic rights to the league
Football
Greece

Greek football club Volos has agreed a new one-season deal with pay-television broadcaster Nova for the 2019-20 season, meaning that the only top-tier Super League club left to sign a broadcasting agreement…
Winter Sports
Europe

The Eurovision Sport division of the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters has appointed Robert Portman as head of winter sport
Football
Poland

Poland's top-tier Ekstraklasa has announced the launch of an OTT platform to provide coverage in select international markets and a new media-rights deal with Telekom Austria-owned broadcaster Planet …
Football
United Kingdom

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired rights in the UK to all pre-season matches played by Premier League football club Arsenal this summer
Football
Turkey

Turkish agency Saran has negotiated a price reduction for rights to the English Premier League for the 2019-22 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands, the first time it has achieved this since acquiring the property at the turn of the decade.
Football
Turkey

BeIN-owned Turkish broadcaster Digiturk has presented the Turkish Football Federation with a proposal to drastically alter its deal for rights to the Turkish Süper Lig after a depreciation in local currency caused costs to balloon, SportBusiness Media understands.
Cricket
United Kingdom

Pay TV broadcaster Sky has announced that it will show the 2019 Cricket World Cup final on July 14 on free-to-air television if England qualify
Football
Denmark

Having been forced into an open tender by the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, the Danish Superliga has secured a modest increase in its domestic media-rights income despite a lack of competition.
Football
Italy

Sky Italia is taking a calculated gamble in agreeing a two-year sublicensing deal with Mediaset for Uefa Champions League rights. Sky’s legal dispute with Italian public-service broadcaster Rai over the latter's option to renew the rights has not yet been resolved. If Rai eventually wins, it could sue Sky for damages.
Football
France

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) in France has said it is “appalled” by long-time media-rights partner Canal Plus's decision to launch legal action against the organisation following a series of …
Ukraine

Multi-territory sports broadcaster Setanta Sports will launch in Ukraine on August 1, having picked up a host of sports rights in the country