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Football

Global rights growth experiencing slowdown as pay-TV wars cool Big tech companies will be selective and limited in ambition outside the US
Multi-sport

Facebook has finally emerged as a major player in the global sports rights-market Acquisition strategy is highly targeted, with India and Latin America among priorities
Football

Frank Dunne talks to Patrick Murphy, chief executive of DDMC Fortis, on the agency’s deal for the global commercial rights to the competitions of the Asian Football Confederation. The long-form agreement was signed on October 29.
Football

DDMC Fortis, the agency created to sell global commercial rights to the competitions of the Asian Football Confederation, will go to market next year in bullish mood, despite having paid a rights fee – $…
Football

Mediapro is close to a deal for global rights to Bolivia’s home 2022 World Cup qualifiers, but must wait 30 days before its victory can be confirmed. The agency’s bid of $12m (€10.5m),
Beach Volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has become the latest sports body to strike a formal partnership with the Olympic Channel, the OTT media platform of the International Olympic Committee
Esports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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.

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.