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SportBusiness Media 23:17
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FOOTBALL: Uefa set to agree record deal with Deutsche Telekom for Euro 2024
FOOTBALL: LaLiga shifts to fee plus revenue share in Premier Sports UK, Ireland deals
Infront doubles outlay, enhances cooperation to secure long-term IIHF deal
The Infront agency has almost doubled the value of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s global media and marketing rights and promised future digital investment and collaboration to seal a 10-year agreement.
SportBusiness Media 23:16
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BASKETBALL: Euroleague secures robust fee rise in Turkey amid booming basketball interest
AMERICAN FOOTBALL: NFL eyes further brand boost with ProSiebenSat
Sky takeover the right choice to drive RugbyPass growth, CEO Martin says
Sky New Zealand’s acquisition of RugbyPass will help the OTT service continue to focus on revenue and user growth in its target markets outside rugby union’s ‘Big Six’ territories, its founder and chief executive Tim Martin has told SportBusiness Media.
FREE | English Premier League Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the global media-rights of the English Premier League.
Football bodies pile pressure on Arabsat in battle to force beoutQ off the air
At stake is the future funding of elite sport through the sale of media rights.
SportBusiness Media 23:15
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FOOTBALL: BBC pays blockbuster fee for Women’s Euro 2021 UK rights as market surges
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English Premier League Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the global media-rights of the English Premier League.
SportBusiness Media 23:14
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TENNIS: Amazon pays premium in French Open domestic rights play
BASKETBALL: China’s Tencent sees off Youku to keep NBA digital rights in record deal
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Uefa to market Champions League under club pressure, with fewer tools in its box
Uefa will go to market later this year with the rights to the Champions League and Europa League under pressure from Europe’s top clubs to at least maintain the kind of growth it enjoyed in the current cycle. But there are reasons why that will be a massive challenge.
Bundesliga readies for international sales push
The German Bundesliga’s international sales and marketing arm, Bundesliga International, is set for a busy 12 months of media-rights sales as the league approaches the conclusion of deals across the Americas, Asia, Middle East and North Africa.
Robert Klein, CEO of Bundesliga International
Robert Klein talks about the ongoing international media-rights sales process for the Bundesliga, the US market, and 'football as it's meant to be'.
SportBusiness Media 23:13
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FOOTBALL: Weak pound post-Brexit vote boosts total Premier League rights income
MULTI-SPORT: Ambitious JTBC shakes Korean FTA broadcasters, delivers strong Olympics fee for IOC
Weak pound post-Brexit vote boosts total Premier League rights income
The English Premier League was a benefactor of sterling’s decline in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in June 2016.
TikTok’s growth pushes platform into key engagement role for sports properties
As TikTok has grown into one of the world's most popular social-media apps during the past year, the short-form video-sharing platform has become an important tool for sports rights-holders to expand and engage their fanbases.
SportBusiness Media 23:12
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TENNIS: Perform makes last-ditch attempt to outbid IMG for ATP Tour betting, data rights
TENNIS: French Open tender gambit unlikely to boost FFT revenues
Perform makes last-ditch attempt to outbid IMG for ATP Tour betting, data rights
Digital and data specialists Perform Content wrote to tennis’s ATP Tour this week to say the company is prepared to make a larger offer than that currently on the table from IMG for the betting and data rights to ATP World Tour events, SportBusiness Media understands.
FREE | Tennis Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the tennis media-rights landscape in 2019.
SportBusiness Media 23:11
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MULTI-SPORT: Facebook sees non-exclusive rights as gateway to digital audience growth
FOOTBALL: Canal EPL sublicence deal in France linked to Altice carriage agreement
Tennis Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the tennis media-rights landscape in 2019.
Peter Hutton, Facebook’s global director of live sports partnerships and programming
Peter Hutton talks about Facebook Watch's recent performance, partnership agreements, and the ‘experimental’ purpose of its traditional rights deals.
Facebook sees non-exclusive rights as gateway to digital audience growth
Social media giant Facebook’s challenges around its Copa Libertadores coverage in Latin America have convinced it that non-exclusive rights models form “one of the best ways” of breaking into markets where entrenched viewing habits restrict the potential for exclusive rights to grow engagement with the platform.
SportBusiness Media 23:10
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FOOTBALL: Star poised for Premier League discount in uncompetitive India
FOOTBALL: English FA spurns higher pay-TV revenue for free-to-air Cup reach
Women’s motorsport series goes for ‘reach over reward’ in inaugural season
W Series, the all-female motorsport competition, is prioritising exposure over revenue in its media-rights strategy for the series’ inaugural year, it has told SportBusiness Media, although it would be difficult for the series to adopt any other approach, according to industry experts.