Europe

Football

The BBC has agreed a new four-season domestic broadcast deal with the English Football Association for the FA Cup
Cricket

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky confirmed on Tuesday that it will not broadcast the 2019 edition of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament
Boxing

BT Sport has agreed a deal to televise new boxing format Ultimate Boxxer across its pay-television, YouTube and BoxNation channels
Rugby Union

The Ligue Nationale de Rugby’s desire for greater revenues drove the shift to a minimum guarantee from a pure revenue share in its renewal of the Top 14 international rights distribution contract with Canal Plus.
Football

Italy remains the only one of Europe’s big five television markets where Fifa has yet to sell the rights to the 2022 World Cup, but world football’s governing body is understood to be in no hurry to come to market and there are several reasons why it makes sense to wait.
Esports

Russian telco MTS has launched a new esports-focused media platform through which users can stream content and take part in competitions. The vc.ru website reports that the WASD
Football

Spain’s LaLiga is poised to return to the UK market in May or June with a media rights tender for the three-seasons running from 2019-20 to 2021-22, SportBusiness Media understands.
Motorsport

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT will recoup almost a quarter of its investment on the first two years of its deal for Formula One motor racing championship rights in a ‘cash plus content’ sublicensing agreement with pay-television broadcaster Cosmote.

OTT service DAZN has alleviated business uncertainty connected to Brexit by securing a licence from the German broadcasting regulator
Football

The Ukrainian Premier League has launched a tender process for media rights to the top tier of domestic club football. The tender covers the three seasons of the UPL spanning 2019-20 to 2021-22
Football

Ekstraklasa, the Polish premier football league, has launched a tender for domestic betting rights for the next two seasons
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has struck an exclusive carriage deal with Premier Sports in Ireland, allowing the former to show every English Premier League game slated for live broadcast from next season
Football

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has sublicensed English Premier League rights to the broadcaster YouSee in Denmark from 2019-20 to 2021-22
Cycling

International broadcaster Eurosport is set to launch a specialised cycling portal in Spain
Football

Fifa, football’s global governing body, issued on Tuesday a tender in sub-Saharan Africa for rights to a number of events to be held in 2019, including the Women’s World Cup in France.
Golf

US network NBC and UK pay-television broadcaster Sky announced Monday that they will collaborate on coverage of golf’s Players Championship, the US PGA tour’s flagship event, which takes place this wee…
Motorcycling

UK digital channel Quest has acquired exclusive rights for free-to-air highlights of the MotoGP motorcycle-racing world championship
Motorsport

The Saran Media agency has extended a rights deal in Turkey for the MotoGP World Championship. The exclusive deal covers the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons of the motorcycle-racing series