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The UIM E1 World Championship start-up electric boat racing series has today (Monday) appointed Aurora Media Worldwide as the broadcast production partner of the inaugural 2024 season.

International broadcast rights to the next three editions of tennis’ United Cup are set to be sold by Pitch International after the agency reached an agreement with Tennis Australia, SportBusiness understands.

Spring Media, the Sweden-based international sports media agency, has announced the integration of recent acquisitions Athletic Sports Group (ASG) and Hogmore under the Spring Media brand, while Hans Svelander has been appointed as the company’s chief commercial officer.

SportBusiness Media this week talked to LaLiga’s executive director, Óscar Mayo Pardo, about why Ocho Sport Advisors was chosen to form a joint venture to transform LaLiga’s global media rights strategy, and how it will work.

Peak, the newly created JV between Spain’s LaLiga and Simon Denyer’s Ocho Sport Advisory company, will consider aggregating LaLiga rights with those of other football leagues, as part of a planned transformation of the Spanish league’s future media rights strategy. 

Sport is increasingly consumed as a media product through 9:16 and other vertical aspect ratios on people's phones. SportBusiness Media examines the possibilities and challenges of this disruption.

The Pitch International agency has today (Tuesday) been awarded the exclusive media rights advisory contract to the Ladies European Tour (LET)

The Pitch International agency bought out Board of Control for Cricket in India international rights after Viacom18 opted for a guaranteed income over attempting to sell the rights itself.

DAZN has added broadcast rights in most global markets to the SAFF Women’s Premier League on the back of its multi-territory agreement for the men’s Saudi Pro League.

Inside this issue, we analyse the Indian Super League's latest domestic rights deal, examine the EFL's RFP for international media and betting streaming rights, and take a look at TF1's deal for exclusive rights in France to the Uefa Women’s Euro 2025 tournament. There's plenty more, including a look at the sale of Uefa club competitions from 2024-27 so far.

Veronica Diquattro, one of the leading executives at DAZN Group, has exited the sports industry to join Omio, an online travel comparison and booking website

Southwind Media, the majority shareholder in Mediapro, is reported to be exploring a sale of its stake in the Spain-based sports rights and broadcast production group

The media rights value of Uefa club competitions from 2024-27 is tracking toward a significant cycle-on-cycle increase compared to 2021-24 as Uefa, Team Marketing and Relevent Sports Group are yet to suffer a decrease in any of their deals completed thus far.

The international media rights ITT released on Friday for Ligue 1, Ligue 2 and Trophée des Champions leaves scope for the league to retain a strong involvement in selling rights in-house but also does not preclude a global agency deal.

Broadcasters and agencies will be able to bid for Ligue 1 international rights across three or five seasons from 2024-25 onwards after the invitation to tender was launched by LFP Media today (Friday).