Europe

The operators of the European Basketball Champions League have launched a new mobile application that will allow fans to access video coverage of games.

Social media company Facebook has refused to rule out a bid for the next cycle of rights to the Premier League, the top division of English club football, but has maintained that broadcasters should not feel threatened by its growing presence in the sports rights market.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 18th September and Sunday 24th September. We also look at August's leading audiences on free-to-air television. Watching Brief Vol. 176

A meeting scheduled to discuss a new media-rights distribution model for English Premier League football clubs was adjourned yesterday (Wednesday) without an agreement having been reached.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has confirmed it has secured rights to the Uefa Europa League club football competition in Germany and Austria.

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a deal to stream live coverage of German football’s Bundesliga in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics, as well as Romania.

Media technology provider Avid has agreed a partnership with Glasgow 2018 ahead of the staging of the inaugural edition of the European Championships multi-sport event.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to the Netball Europe Open Championships, which get underway in the Welsh capital of Cardiff tomorrow (Thursday).

Coverage of the Italian Serie A women’s football competition will be shown on social media website Facebook.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights to the rematch fight between British heavyweight boxing rivals Tony Bellew and David Haye.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote TV has bolstered its sports offering by agreeing a carriage deal with international pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports.

Italian telecommunications group Telecom Italia (TIM) has approved the creation of a joint venture with French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus that is set to compete for sports rights in Italy, while it has also appointed a new chief executive as part of ongoing development efforts.

Italian Serie A football club Inter Milan has rebranded its television channel as part of a major revamp of its in-house media operations.

The management board of German media company Constantin Medien has curtailed a process to sell sports broadcaster Sport1 and advertising sales division Sport1 Media.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has retained its rights to the national football team’s qualifying games for major tournaments under a new deal with European governing body Uefa.

The French Football League (LFP) has extended its partnership with video-sharing platform YouTube.