Europe

BT Consumer chief executive John Petter has indicated that the UK telecommunications company is keen to renew domestic media rights for football’s Uefa Champions League.

Social media platform Twitter has partnered with Sky to enhance the UK pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of football’s transfer deadline day.

DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service operated by digital media specialist Perform, has acquired rights for the Davis Cup and Fed Cup men’s and women’s tennis tournaments.

Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG has acquired a host of rights to national team football properties held by European governing body Uefa.

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky has fired the latest shot in its battle with Discovery Communications, the parent company of international sports broadcaster Eurosport, by criticising its approach to negotiations over a carriage deal, adding that the US company is seeking close to £1bn (€1.16bn/$1.25bn) for an agreement.

The England and Wales Cricket Board intends to launch a tender process for its whole portfolio of broadcast rights, including a new domestic Twenty20 tournament, this summer, according to the Daily Mail.

The Fight Channel Group has agreed a carriage deal for its Fight Channel World HD pay-television channel with new Romanian OTT platform Streamark.

Italy’s antitrust authority, the AGCM, has rejected the guidelines outlined by Lega Serie A for the centralised selling of the next package of rights to the top division of domestic football and other competitions, stating they are too “vague” in their definitions of the process.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has unveiled a new leadership and corporate structure for its Infront Germany division.

Pay-television channel At The Races has acquired live and exclusive rights in the UK to the inaugural edition of the Pegasus World Cup horse-racing event.

UK viewing audiences for the week between Monday 9th January and Sunday 15th January. Watching Brief Vol. 140

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky has reported a nine per cent fall in first-half operating profit, admitting that it has been hampered by the rise in costs of UK rights to club football competition the English Premier League.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has secured rights to the 2021 Rugby League World Cup national team tournament.

Discovery Communications, the parent company of international sports broadcaster Eurosport, has threatened to pull its channels from pay-television broadcaster Sky’s platforms in the UK and Germany due to a carriage dispute.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV and pay-television operator Sky have acquired the latest package of football rights for the England national team offered by European governing body Uefa.

The German Football Association (DFB) has agreed deals with public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, along with telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom, for rights to the German women’s national team, the Women’s Bundesliga and the men’s 3. Liga.