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Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and US cross-platform media network Whistle Sports have launched a new social media channel dedicated to creating original football content.

Winter Sports

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended rights partnerships with seven national ski federations covering International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup events.

European broadcast facilities and services company Euro Media Group has agreed a deal to acquire Netco Sports, a specialist in sport second screen solutions.

Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of conglomerate Lagardère, is to unify all its agencies under the single commercial brand name of Lagardère Sports and Entertainment.

Basketball

Internet video technology provider NeuLion has sealed a partnership with the Euroleague to support the club basketball tournament's new digital service.

Football

Strong pay-television competition in four of Europe’s big five markets helped Uefa significantly increase the media rights value of its club competitions in the 2015-16 to 2017-18 cycle.

Football

The English Premier League has entered into a partnership with content and platform security provider Friend MTS in an effort to protect live broadcasts of the club football competition in regions around the world.

Football

Germany’s Bundesliga entered August pleased with itself for having secured a 146-per-cent increase in the value of its global media rights – an exceptional result by any normal measure. T
Football

The International Champions Cup friendly tournament is thought to have broken the $100m (€89m) income barrier this summer. Its organisers, US-based Relevent Sports, expect continued growth in the coming seasons.

Netball

The International Netball Federation has launched its own official channel on video-sharing website YouTube.

Wrestling

United World Wrestling, the sport’s global governing body, has said it will stream live coverage of every match during the 2015 Wrestling World Championships in Las Vegas, US.

US College Sport

Online streaming service EverSport.tv has struck a worldwide carriage deal with Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference.

Football

Spain’s LaLiga has reached its revenue target for international rights from 2015-16 with rights in some smaller territories left to sell, TV Sports Markets understands.

Rugby Union

French telco Altice signalled its intent to bid aggressively for sports rights late last month, teaming up with RDA TV to buy international Premiership Rugby rights.

Football

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter has maintained that world football’s governing body is not a corrupt “institution,” adding that he is “clean” amid ongoing criminal investigations into the governance of the sport.

Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has revealed that this year’s edition of its showpiece World Championships will be broadcast in more than 200 territories around the world.

The MP & Silva agency is on the look-out for new investment after revealing details of a group restructuring earlier this month, according to a report by the Thomson Financial newswire.

Boxing

Boxing publication The Ring has said it will launch a live streaming and video on demand service next month.