Global

Olympic Games

South Korean electronics company Samsung will deliver Olympic content in virtual reality for the first time during the upcoming winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.

Basketball

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has signed a wide-ranging strategic partnership with digital sports content and media group Perform that is set to be worth a guaranteed sum of close to €500m ($541.1m).

Darts

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has expanded a partnership with the Professional Darts Corporation to include coverage of its events.

Cricket

A new online streaming platform has been introduced ahead of the inaugural edition of Twenty20 cricket competition the Pakistan Super League.

Golf

Golf’s PGA Tour has entered into global partnerships with action camera manufacturer GoPro and internet video network SkratchTV that aim to deliver never-before-seen perspectives and episodic video content to fans around the world.

Football

Football fans are running the “extremely dangerous” risk of putting their devices and personal privacy in jeopardy through accessing free streams of games, according to a new report into such services authored by researchers from Belgian university KU Leuven and New York-based counterpart Stony Brook University.

Multi-sport

Unscriptd, an athlete media company that aims to help professional athletes create and publish their unfiltered personal stories in short-form video format, has launched with the backing of some of the leading stars of world sport.

Rugby Union

Southern hemisphere rugby rights have increased significantly in global value, driven by explosive growth in the UK, France and the Middle East, and supported by strong returns in difficult core markets.

Cricket

Weak returns for the Masters Champions League, a Twenty20 tournament contested by cricket legends and hosted in the UAE, may reflect an Indian market reaching saturation with the format
Football

A victory for Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa in Fifa presidential election could have major repercussions on the sale of Asian Football Confederation media rights.

Golf

Golf’s PGA Tour has said its digital over-the-top subscription service, PGA Tour Live, will expand its service to cover the global market.

World Rally Championship commercial rights-holder WRC Promoter has said the 2016 season of the motor racing series will be screened in more than 150 markets following the confirmation of a series of broadcast agreements.

Minor Sports

Las Vegas-based broadcaster Poker Central has acquired rights to broadcast the Global Poker League, which commences its inaugural season later this year.

International pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has confirmed the launch of a new online platform dedicated to coverage of eSports competitions around the world.

Multi-sport

Hernan Lopez, president and chief executive of Fox International Channels, is to depart the broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox as it undergoes a structural reorganisation.

Football

German Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich has agreed a global media partnership with US internet company Yahoo.

Minor Sports

Interactive entertainment company Activision Blizzard has acquired the business of Major League Gaming, a leader in the creation and streaming of premium live eSports events, organising professional competitions and running competitive gaming leagues.

Skiing

Markus Waldner, the men’s alpine race director at the International Ski Federation (FIS), has said that the governing body will ban the use of drones at events until further notice after a machine carrying a camera nearly hit an athlete during a World Cup event in Italy.