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The World Boxing Super Series has focused on exposure and promotional commitments from broadcasters during its first season, as it banks on core boxing markets to provide most of its revenue.

Interview with Rahul Johri, chief executive of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, about the Indian Premier League's $2.55bn deal with Star India

North American basketball league the NBA has agreed a multi-year partnership with digital media and broadcasting company Vice Media.

BeIN Media Group has been joined by a further eight sports organisations in its bid to shut down a pirate channel called beoutQ, which is operating in Saudi Arabia.

Laver Cup organisers have secured rights deals covering more than 200 territories worldwide ahead of the debut of the new tennis tournament next week.

The International Handball Federation has launched a tender process for the global media rights to its men’s and women’s events after 2017.

The International Tennis Federation has partnered with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar to launch a new live-streaming platform for its Davis Cup and Fed Cup national team tournaments.

US technology company Apple has said it will bring live sports to its digital media player and microconsole service, Apple TV.

Video game developer Hi-Rez Studios and the World Esports Association have agreed a rights partnership with social media platform Facebook for new esports competition the Paladins Premier League.

The International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel has signed partnerships with three more international federations through agreements with the governing bodies of handball, roller sports and skateboarding, and boules sport.

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a deal to provide audio-visual streams and transmissions for all matches played in competitions held by esports organisation Fortuna.

Board of Control for Cricket in India chief executive Rahul Johri has hailed the role of the governing body’s new tendering strategy in securing the Indian Premier League’s lucrative rights deal with Star India, while the pay-television broadcaster’s chief executive, Uday Shankar, has maintained it has not overpaid for the contract.

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has struck a deal to distribute the audiovisual streams and data from all upcoming competitions provided by esports platform PvPro.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has today (Monday) ousted Sony Pictures Network India as the main rights-holder to the Indian Premier League after securing the global television and digital rights to the Twenty20 cricket competition.

The Kontinental Hockey League’s new international rights deal with the Lagardère Sports agency marks the beginning of a six-season plan to expand the league across Europe and restructure its revenue streams.

The IMG agency says global media-rights revenue earned from Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor will exceed that of previous marquee fights, and expects the pay-per-view revenue record to have been broken in multiple major territories.