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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…
Motorsport

Formula One’s commercial managing director Sean Bratches has told the Daily Mail newspaper that the motor racing series’ decline in free-to-air coverage across the globe concerns owners Liberty Media.
Multi-sport

France's Canal Plus Group has agreed a deal to buy pay-television distributor M7, which would establish the company in seven new European countries, potentially providing a basis for its broadcasting business…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has agreed to share English Premier League coverage in France with Altice for the 2019-22 cycle
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in Australia and New Zealand to the final of this year’s Scottish Cup, while it will also show the 2019-20 edition of the football competition i…
Football

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has secured rights to the 2019 Uefa Under-21 Championship. The deal is for all matches, including those played by the Polish national under-21 team
Football

OTT streaming service DAZN has acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Brazil to North America’s Major League Soccer.
Tennis

Amazon secured Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour rights in the UK for the 2020-23 cycle with a bid nearly 60 per cent higher than incumbent pay-television broadcaster BT Sport's current fee, SportBusiness Media understands, as the tech and ecommerce giant moves to establish a dominant position in UK tennis broadcasting.
Football

The English FA Cup will be broadcast exclusively free-to-air in the UK from 2021 after commercial broadcaster confirmed a new four-year deal for the competition
Football

The Italian competition authority’s investigation into the sale of rights for Serie A is ostensibly a disaster for MP & Silva and B4 and a let-off for IMG. But MP & Silva and B4 are no longer active and IMG could yet face a major problem. The agency could be hit with a substantial damages claim by the league for lost earnings.

Italy’s antitrust authority, the AGCM, has ordered that Sky cannot strike exclusive rights deal for content and linear channels across internet platforms for three years as part of its approval of the p…
Football

Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova has picked up rights to both Germany’s DFB Pokal and Spain’s Copa Del Rey finals, which will take place this weekend.
Football

The German Football League (DFL) has entered into a partnership with digital and social media agency 433 designed to build the presence of the top-tier Bundesliga across social media platforms
Football

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has sold rights to the season-ending promotion race in the third-tier Segunda División B to commercial broadcaster Mediaset and streaming platform Footters.
Tennis

US media group Discovery has agreed a four-year deal for a host of ATP Tour events, strengthening its tennis portfolio in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Football

A rise of over a third in international broadcaster fees for the English Premier League drove an 8-per-cent increase in the property’s total rights value for 2019-2022 to £9.2bn (€10.4bn/$11.7bn)
Football

Czech pay-television broadcaster O2 TV has acquired rights to this year’s Copa América national team football tournament.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster All Media Baltics used its pan-regional competitive advantage to retain  English Premier League’s rights in the Baltics without a hefty increase in cost.