Europe

Football
Media

Extensive live coverage of Czech football’s knockout clubs competition is moving away from public-service broadcaster Česká Televize to pay-television broadcaster O2 TV in a landmark five-season agreement.
Speedway

Canal Plus Polska will remain the exclusive domestic rights-holder of the PGE Ekstraliga, Poland's top speedway league, until at least 2028 after agreeing to pay a slight increase on its current deal.
Football
Media

DAZN has renewed its exclusive media rights to broadcast the English Premier League in Spain and Portugal from 2025-26 to 2027-28 as it continues to solidify its football portfolio across Europe
Multi-sport
Media

Linear audiences in most major European markets dropped significantly for the men’s Olympic 100-metre final compared to the last summer Games in Europe as its ‘appointment-to-view’ status has been diluted due to various factors.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Matthias Kirschenhofer has become the sole chief executive of German sports broadcaster Sport1 following the closure of a 50-per-cent equity stake sale to Acunmedya, the Turkish media group
Football
Media

The French football domestic rights saga is almost at an end, after the league's board of directors validated the €100m ($108m) per season media rights and sponsorship offer from pay-television's beIN S…
Multiple Sports
Media

Sergey Shishkin, CEO of Russian subscription OTT platform Okko, claims to have acquired 99 per cent of shares in Telesport as financial turbulence at the Russian sports marketing agency has put paid to…
Football
Media

Serie A will remain on Match TV in Russia until at least 2029 as - unlike some other high-profile properties - the league continues to have uninterrupted coverage in the country.
Multiple Sports
Events

Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the ceremony for Paris 2024, has said OBS “missed a lot of moments” from his vision for the event.
Football
Media

Central Asia is the next region in which Premier League and FA Cup rights have been sold together, with the Saran Media Group picking up the contract to 2027-28
Multiple Sports
Media

French rugby union’s Top 14 and Premier Padel, the sport's global tour, are the first exclusive sports rights to be added to the Canal Plus platforms in the Netherlands since the firm relaunched in the c…
Multi-sport
Media

NBCUniversal's decision to broadcast a commercial-free portion of an Olympics opening ceremony proved a success, with Paris 2024 setting a 12-year Games audience high for the US rights-holder
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Canal Plus, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Vivendi which plans to list it on the London stock exchange, earned increased revenues in the first half of 2024 compared to last year
Football
Media

DAZN’s agreement for eight Ligue 1 fixtures per week has moved closer to completion but a sponsorship sales component of beIN Sports’ proposed deal for the remaining match continues to be worked through.
Football
Host Broadcast & Production

Endeavor Streaming has added to its portfolio of football clients in a deal to deliver Newcastle United’s new OTT service.
Basketball
Data

Germany’s 2. Basketball Bundesliga has amassed a betting rights package of at least 720 matches per season in a request for proposal (RFP) process that also includes the global broadcast rights, SportBusiness understands.
Handball
Media

Women’s handball has been delivered a major exposure boost in Germany after public broadcasters ARD and ZDF opted to buy the rights to the women’s Euros together with the men’s competition.
Athletics
Media

Almost five years on from being named as the future seller of Diamond League rights internationally, Infront has struck a mixture of free-to-air and pay-TV deals from 2025.