Global

Football
Global

The sales process for in-flight and in-ship broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27 has been issued with incumbent IMG once again the standout candidate to secure the contract
Professional Wrestling
Global

Netflix has made its biggest foray into live event streaming, today (Tuesday), announcing a stunning $5bn (€4.6bn), 10-year global media-rights deal with World Wrestling Entertainment.
Rugby League
United Kingdom

Rugby League Commercial (RLC), the joint venture between Super League and the Rugby Football League (RFL) that acts as commercial rights-holder, has unveiled a new global, direct-to-consumer streaming service for the sport’s top division in the UK.
Football
Global

Uefa has decided to sell global commercial rights to the Uefa Women’s Champions League over a five-year cycle, from 2025-26 to 2029-30, with sponsorship rights to women’s national team events over the…
Football
Global

DAZN is to drop its paywall for the bulk of its women’s football coverage worldwide to create what it describes as the “new global home for women’s football” in the broadcaster’s latest move to open u…
Hockey
Global

Spring Media has made one of its biggest moves to date in the betting video rights space in a deal with the International Hockey Federation (FIH)
Multi-sport
Global

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has significantly loosened its restrictions around athletes' use of social media during the Olympic Games following discussions with media rights-holders, albeit…
Multiple Sports
Global

Iris Sport Media, the company set up by Ioris Francini and his former IMG colleagues Floris Weisz and Luca Baldanza, has recruited Graham Wallace as chief corporate and financial officer
Multiple Sports
Global

EMG and Gravity Media have announced a merger deal which they state will create one of the world’s largest and most significant broadcast technology and production companies.
Football
Global

SuperSport, the dominant pay-television broadcaster in sub-Saharan Africa, today (Wednesday) announced an agreement to show every match from the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), less than a week…
Multiple Sports
Global

DAZN has recruited Walker Jacobs from Twitch to the newly created position of global chief revenue officer and president of DAZN’s US operation.
US College Sport
USA

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has agreed a new eight-year domestic and international rights deal with ESPN for 40 of its championships in an agreement worth $920m (€840m).
Football
Global

Fifa and Uefa acted unlawfully when they threatened to ban clubs and players joining breakaway competitions like the European Super League (ESL), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled
Multiple Sports
Global

DAZN recorded an operating loss of $1.06bn (€969m) in 2022 on the back of increased rights fee commitments but higher direct-to-consumer revenues helped to reduce the figure by 22 per cent year-over-year, SportBusiness understands.
Padel
Global

The UK-based Aurora Media Worldwide has today (Tuesday) been named as the host broadcast company for padel’s Hexagon Cup.
Multiple Sports
Global

Bluestone Equity Partners, the private equity fund founded by Bobby Sharma, a former executive at IMG and the National Basketball League, has invested in Magnifi, an AI-powered video editing technology…
Global

Inside this issue we analyse the Premier League's domestic deals, Amazon's sports media strategy, the ICC's sales process in Australia, Recast's financial plight, and plenty more.
Multiple Sports
Global

Amazon has found that premium sports properties drive acquisition of new customers to its Amazon Prime premium service but are not necessary for their retention.