Europe

Volleyball

The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) has teamed up with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar to launch eurovolley.tv, a new OTT service
Hockey

Dutch pay-television broadcaster Ziggo has agreed a four-year rights deal with the International Hockey Federation (FIH)
Football

Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet has renewed its exclusive English Premier League rights in a new three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has accused telco Nowo of owing significant amounts in carriage fees, days after the broadcaster withdrew its channels from the service
Football

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote has seen off stiff competition from rival Nova to renew its English Premier League rights in Greece
Motorsport

Dutch pay-television broadcaster Ziggo has renewed its Formula One rights and will help launch the rights-holders OTT service F1 TV from 2019
Football

World football’s governing body Fifa has opened an invitation to tender in Spain for the media rights to its national team tournaments taking place between 2019 and 2022.
Football

Telco Síminn has become the new rights-holder of the English Premier League in Iceland, promising new levels of coverage for the top division of English club football.
Motorsport

Live motorsport has returned to the BBC with the UK public-service broadcaster acquiring rights to the 2018-19 season of electric car racing series Formula E
Football

Streaming platform DAZN will launch in Spain from 2019 with exclusive pay-television rights to MotoGP and the English Premier League, bringing competition to a market that had become dominated by Telefonica
Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has added near-live extended and mobile clip rights to its coverage of the English Premier League, in a new three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22
Motorsport

Pay-television channel Motorvision TV has broadened its footprint in Europe by agreeing a spate of distribution deals in 14 countries

German combat sports platform fight24.tv has agreed a strategic partnership with Martial Arts Broadcasting Network, a pan-European operation, with the latter rebranded under the fight24 banner
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports will replace rival Sky to broadcast the Scottish Cup alongside BBC Scotland for the next six seasons, from 2018-19 to 2023-24
Cricket

The Cricket Ireland governing body has secured its first multi-year media rights deal through an agreement with the Total Sports Marketing agency
Football

English Premier League rights in Cyprus will increase in value following a direct renewal with telco Cyta. The new three-season deal with Cyta, from 2019-20 to 2021-22, will be worth just under €1.5
Football

Sky Italia’s head of sports rights, programming and production Matteo Mammì said today that his impending departure from the company was not linked to Lega Serie A’s search for a chief executive. He
Football

Bulgarian commercial broadcaster Nova has acquired English Premier League rights in a new three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22, directly from the rights-holder