Global

Esports
Global

Four of the biggest esports events in the West generated 190.1 million hours of viewership in 2018, according to research by Newzoo
Sailing
Global

Austrian production company West4 Media and German broadcast manufacturer Riedel Communications will work together, as circle-o Broadcast Productions, to produce television coverage of the 36th America’s C…
Motorsport
Global

The Formula One motor-racing series will harness its partnership with Amazon Web Services to introduce new in-race television graphics for the 2019 season
Motorsport
Global

The Formula One motor-racing championship has agreed a partnership with virtual reality content provider The Dream VR
Global

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has claimed a world first by teaming up with tech start-up Reactoo to launch a new product designed to drive engagement around sports viewing.
Golf
Global

Media group Discovery and the US PGA Tour have partnered with golfer Tiger Woods in a multi-year agreement to create ancillary content for Discovery’s OTT streaming service GolfTV.
Football
In-Flight/In-Ship

The IMG agency has renewed its in-flight and in-ship rights to the English Premier League in a new three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22
Football
Global

The Peruvian football federation (FPF) has decided not to follow through with its public threat to strip Gol TV of the international rights to Peru’s 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers, after the broadcaster finally made an overd…
Football
Global

World football’s governing body Fifa has claimed German media reports that president Gianni Infantino’s competition reform plan would include the sale of all of the body’s major commercial rights are b…
Global

Anouk Mertens has been appointed as the new chief operating officer of Eleven Sports Group. The international sports broadcaster announced the news today (Friday)
American Football
USA

Internet company Amazon has revealed that viewing figures for its coverage of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games have increased by 22 per cent this season.
Global

The global value of sports media rights reached $49.533bn (€43.782bn) in 2018, according to data released today by SportBusiness Consulting, up from $46.871bn in 2017.
Global

MP & Silva wound up owing hundreds of millions of dollars to sports bodies Creditors include Fifa, Uefa, England’s Premier League, Italy’s Serie A and F1 I
Football
Global

The Asian Football Confederation has today (October 29) signed its eight-year global commercial rights deal with DDMC Fortis, from 2021 to 2028
Football
Global

Conmebol’s appointment of Dentsu Sports as the Copa América 2019 tournament’s exclusive commercial sales agent is a product of existing relationships and a desperate need for a quick fix.
Global

Jeremy Darroch has said he plans “to stick around” as chief executive of Sky, as he outlined areas of focus for the pan-European pay-television broadcaster following its takeover by US media company Com…
Football
France

The French Football League (LFP) is in talks with its international rights distributor, beIN Media Group, after a group of Ligue 1 clubs raised questions over the value of the top division’s overseas r…
Skiing
Sweden

The Swedish Ski Association has agreed a five-season extension to its long-standing rights and production partnership with the Infront agency. The new contract will run from 2021-22 to 2025-26