Europe

US media group Liberty Global has sold its cable network UPC Switzerland to Swiss telco Sunrise Communications for a total of CHF 6.3bn ($6.3bn/€5.5bn), which includes taking on CHF 3.6
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media has backtracked on its claim to have acquired broadcast rights to the 2018-19 Coppa Italia club football knockout competition in France, Australia and New Zealand

Streaming platform DAZN launched its service in Spain on Wednesday, making it the company’s eighth confirmed market.

Austrian Bundesliga clubs have agreed a new distribution of their media-rights revenue after several clubs showed dissatisfaction with how the new record deal with Sky was split
Motorsport

LaLigaSports, the OTT platform of the Spanish football league, has agreed a deal to title sponsor this year’s Spanish Karting Championship and stream live coverage of the competition.
Football

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has held on to English Premier League rights in Romania, giving it leverage in upcoming carriage negotiations with local pay-television operators
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has regained rights in France to the Coppa Italia club football knockout competition after a four-year hiatus
Football

The Coupe de France club football competition will receive free-to-air exposure in the UK after digital television channel FreeSports acquired rights to the remainder of this season’s tournament.
Football

Spanish telco Vodafone has called for the country’s competition authority to reform content-sharing regulations, which force Telefónica to share 50 per cent of its premium content.
Esports

Pay-television broadcaster Polsat will air coverage of the Ekstraklasa Games, a new esports tournament organised by production company ESL in partnership with Poland’s top-tier football league and game d…
Football

Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) has agreed a partnership with LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, covering sponsorship and broadcast rights
Football

Commercial broadcaster ITV has announced it will broadcast free-to-air coverage of Spain’s LaLiga for the rest of the 2018-19 season in a new deal with the league.
Motorcycling

Mediaset has acquired free-to-air rights in Spain for two MotoGP motorcycling championship races in 2019 in a sublicensing deal with OTT operator DAZN, according to reports

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has confirmed that it has sold its 95-per-cent share in Bulgaria’s Nova Broadcasting Group to Advance Media Group.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired non-exclusive rights in the UK and Ireland to football’s Spanish LaLiga.
Ice Hockey

Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub has reached a new deal that will give it increased exclusivity over National Hockey League rights in Switzerland from the 2020-21 season
Football

The Pitch International agency has hired Sunil Kaikini, head of international broadcasting at the English Premier League, to the new position of managing director of football
Ice Hockey

Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub has renewed National Hockey League rights, solidifying a key ice hockey property amid competition from telco UPC