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Games from this year’s Netball Youth World Cup will be streamed live on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter as part of an agreement between the International Netball Federation and Botswanan online portal Tsena.

The X Games has agreed a partnership with Korean consumer electronics company Samsung that will result in the action sports competition being presented in virtual reality for the first time.

The International Champions Cup pre-season tournaments will earn an increase of about 10 per cent for its media rights in 2017, despite tricky negotiations in some key European markets.

A number of major broadcasters from around the world have complained to Fifa, football’s global governing body, over plans to stage the final of its 2018 World Cup national team competition at the same time as the men’s singles final at next year’s Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament.

Aser, a global investment company focused on the media and sport sectors, has appointed Marco Pistoni as managing director of its media division.

Men’s tennis body the Association of Tennis Professionals has built on its aggregation and centralisation of broadcast rights on the ATP World Tour, with 12 tournaments across the 250 category being pooled and sold together in partnership with ATP Media, the organisation’s broadcast arm.

The Wimbledon Channel, the All England Club’s digital news channel dedicated to the Wimbledon Championships, will be available to view live on the Twitter social media website for the duration of the 2017 edition of the tennis grand slam

The IMG agency has secured the global in-flight and in-ship rights to Fifa’s 2018 World Cup, 2019 Women’s World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup international football tournaments.

Dominic Coles is stepping down from his role as executive vice-president of strategic projects at international media and entertainment company Discovery Networks International.

The International Cricket Council has extended a partnership with ITN Productions to provide digital clips for Women’s Cricket World Cup rights-holders.

The European Handball Federation will be seeking a large increase in the value of media rights to its competitions when it offers them to the market this September. The EHF announced it would centralise national team and club rights earlier this month.

Social media platform Twitter has partnered with sports marketing company Sela Sport to stream live coverage of this year’s Arab Championship, an annual club football competition for teams from Arab nations.

Social video platform Twitch has agreed a two-year global partnership with game developer and publisher Blizzard Entertainment that includes third-party live streaming rights to select Blizzard esports content.

Sean Bratches, Formula One’s managing director of commercial operations, has hit out at the motor racing series’ broadcast rights model inherited by the previous regime led by Bernie Ecclestone, stating that a focus on pay-television, especially in the UK market, has been detrimental to the sport.

Social media platform Twitter has agreed a deal to live stream matches from US ice hockey competition the National Women’s Hockey League.

ATP Media, the broadcast arm of professional men’s tennis circuit the ATP World Tour, has launched a production venture in partnership with the IMG Studios division of the IMG agency.