Global

Skiing

The International Paralympic Committee has confirmed that live coverage of the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in Tarvisio, Italy, will be streamed via its official website.
Football

Concacaf, the governing body of football in the Caribbean, North America and Central America, has selected Lagardère Sports, the sports marketing division of conglomerate Lagardère, to market the global rights for its Gold Cup national team tournament.
Modern Pentathlon

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has appointed UK-based production company Pro-Active Broadcast to manage and distribute its broadcast and web-stream output.
Multi-sport

Discovery Communications has appointed Alex Kaplan as executive vice-president, commercial for the Eurosport Digital division of international sports broadcaster Eurosport.
Multi-sport

The IMG agency has promoted Adam Kelly to head of global sales for its IMG Media division.
Multi-sport

Courtside Ventures, the sports focused early-stage venture capital fund that invests in media and technology companies, has unveiled its portfolio of inaugural investments.
Athletics

The IMG agency has agreed a deal to represent and sell the global media rights for Nitro Athletics, a new sports entertainment series pioneered by Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt.
Multi-sport

Social media website Twitter has confirmed that its video-sharing service, Vine, will be relaunched as a camera application on January 17.
Golf

Golf’s PGA Tour has agreed a new partnership with Twitter through which the social media platform will distribute, on a free basis, more than 70 hours of live competition coverage across 31 tournaments through the remainder of the 2016-17 season.
Basketball

Virtual reality broadcast technology company NextVR has moved to widen its international reach by partnering with internet company Google and broadening its existing relationship with North American basketball league the NBA.
Golf

Golf’s PGA Tour will seek to secure partial ownership of a network as part of its next set of broadcast rights agreements, according to the organisation’s new commissioner Jay Monahan.
Tennis

The International Tennis Federation has appointed Tim Stemp as its new executive director for commercial.
Multi-sport

The International Air Sports Federation (FAI), World Bowling and the World Flying Disc Federation have each agreed content partnerships with the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel.
Skiing

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has launched a new official mobile application, which is available for download on Android and iOS devices and includes a host of video content.
Esports

BAMTech, the video technology business of Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media division, will pay Riot Games a minimum of $300m (€287m) through to 2023 for the streaming rights for the company’s League of Legends esports tournaments.
Football

Uefa is confident the European pay-television market – the engine room of value for Champions League media rights – is sufficiently competitive to help it reach its income targets for the next cycle.
Mixed Martial Arts

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is preparing to ditch pay-per-view as its main media-rights revenue stream in the US, as owners WME|IMG seek to increase the guaranteed revenue of July’s $3.775bn (€3.522bn) acquisition.
Multi-sport

Social media platform Facebook has said it has commenced talks over licensing video content in the sports sector.