Europe

The French Football Federation has awarded commercial broadcaster M6 and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus rights for the country’s leading women’s football and youth-level football properties.

Sportsfix, an OTT service serving Southeast Asia, has acquired rights in Malaysia for Serie A, the top division of Italian football.

Superswiss, which provides pay-television channels in the US, has expanded its partnership with the DEL, the top division of ice hockey in Germany.

Patrick Drahi has moved to regain control of French telecommunications company Altice, which operates pay-television broadcaster SFR Sport, following a significant reduction in the firm’s share price triggered by a profit warning issued earlier this month.

The Ginx Esports TV channel has agreed a carriage deal in Italy with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia.

Ski Sport Finland has signed a long-term extension to its international media rights partnership with the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Russian state-controlled commercial broadcaster Channel One has acquired rights to the national football team’s forthcoming friendly games, which will also be live streamed by social media platforms VKontakte and Odnoklassnik.

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has agreed deals through the MP & Silva agency with the social media platform Facebook and Chinese internet company Tencent for live streaming coverage of this Sunday’s game between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, known as ‘El Clásico’.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said the organisation which oversees the top two divisions of Spanish club football needs to step up its engagement with OTT and other digital media platforms, adding it has received interest from the likes of streaming service Netflix and Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 23rd and Sunday 29th October including audiences from the English Premier League, Mexican Grand Prix and the final of the Under 17 Fifa World Cup.

English Premier League football club Manchester City has today (Thursday) signed a content partnership with internet company Amazon which will result in the production of a behind-the-scenes series for its Prime subscription service.

Swedish communications technology company Ericsson has resurrected the Red Bee Media name after opting to rebrand its Broadcast and Media Services business.

Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT has picked up rights to the International Table Tennis Federation’s 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships, which will take place in Halmstad, Sweden.

Robert Klein will succeed Jörg Daubitzer as the chief executive of the Bundesliga International division of the German football league (DFL) on January 1.

The television service operated by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has moved into combat sports coverage through a partnership with 7Sports, the sports business division of media group ProSiebenSat.1.

The Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country, has maintained its tender process for its latest domestic rights deal was completely valid amid reports public-service broadcaster ORF is considering legal action over the agreement.