Europe

Football

The Football Association rejected a higher bid for domestic FA Cup rights for the 2021-25 cycle from incumbent pay-television broadcaster BT Sport in favour of commercial broadcaster ITV, SportBusiness Media understands, in a move that took the competition exclusively free to air in the UK.
Football

European football’s governing body Uefa said on Friday that an invitation to tender for the media rights to Euro 2024 in its host country of Germany will be launched on June 11.
Tennis

Media group Discovery’s willingness to acquire more ATP Tour content in the Nordic region than rival broadcasters had in the current cycle was key to its successful acquisition of the property.
Football

The Spanish football federation’s award of 2019 Copa del Rey final rights to public-service broadcaster TVE could have left it open to legal action.
Football

A snap general election in Greece could thwart Greek football club PAOK’s attempts to seal a lucrative rights deal with public-service broadcaster ERT.
Basketball

The VTB United League, a pan-European club basketball competition, has significantly increased the value of its international rights in a new deal with the Lagardère Sports agency amid interest from local Russian agencies.
Football

Spain’s Mediapro agency has again acquired LaLiga’s package of live, free-to-air Primera División matches, paying a similar fee in the 2019-22 cycle as it did in 2016-19. The sale of this package to Mediapro – alongside one containing free-to-air rights to two Segunda División matches per match-week – closes LaLiga’s domestic tender for the cycle.
Golf

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired digital rights to this week’s GolfSixes tournament. The event, which runs from June 7-8, is part of the European Tour.
Basketball

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has chosen Protocol Sports Marketing to market the competition to key territories in Asia and Eurasia
Football

The clubs from Italy’s Serie A will discuss next Monday the possibly of launching a damages claim against the three agencies – MP & Silva, IMG and B4 – fined late last month for allegedly being involved in a cartel in the acquisition of the league’s international rights.
Softball

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has said it will provide a global live stream of all matches from the 2019 men’s Softball World Championship on video-sharing platform YouTube, while it has a…
Pool

OTT streaming service DAZN has secured rights to the 2019 World Cup of Pool across a number of markets
Esports

UK esports organisation Dignitas has signed streaming platform Caffeine as its exclusive broadcast partner

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has acquired a 9.6-per-cent stake in German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1. The Reuters news agency reported that Mediaset’s €330m ($368m) investment saw ProSiebenSat.1’s
Cycling

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has partnered with social media company Snapchat to launch a new series of sport-focused videos.

The French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) has launched a new channel designed to promote a wide range of sports across all levels
Football

OTT streaming service DAZN has acquired pay-television rights to 26 live matches of the 2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup from the SportA agency in Germany.
Football

Paris Saint-Germain has become the first football club to launch an official account on Chinese micro-content platform Dongtu, while Liverpool has become the first English Premier League team to have a…