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Inside this issue: MULTI-SPORT: CVC’s Ligue 1 deal confirms fund’s reputation as sport’s biggest gambler FOOTBALL: TVP goes big for Uefa national team rights in six-season deal FOOTB

OneFootball, the football-focused media platform, has strengthened its relationship with Lega Serie B by signing a global content deal with the governing body for the second division of Italian club football

World's richest man looks to take prominent social media platform private

International subscription and streaming broadcaster Eleven is providing live content for Fifa+, the OTT streaming service launched this week by football’s global governing body.

Romy Gai, a former commercial executive at Juventus, has been appointed as Fifa’s chief business officer with Kay Madati, the incumbent chief commercial officer, to leave in the latest personnel rejig a…

Frank Dunne takes a close look at CVC, which has become the sport's industry's go-to private equity partner due to its aggressive investment strategy and appetite for risk.

Fifa, world football’s governing body, today (Tuesday) launched a free, ad-funded streaming service which will carry over 40,000 live international and club matches per year, all Fifa archive content a…

WarnerMedia-Discovery merger formally closes, creating one of the largest media entities based in the US

IMG has been appointed by DiBella Entertainment to sell the global media rights for the forthcoming lightweight world title fight between George Kambosos Jr

DAZN Group, the global sports subscription service and media company, has today (Monday) appointed Sandeep Tiku as its chief technology officer

This year’s Grand National will be shown by around 30 broadcasters across the world, with Eclat, Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group), Watch4 and Polsat among the outlets that will be showing the h…

Pan-regional pay-television operator beIN Sports has acquired exclusive broadcast rights to the World Rugby Sevens Series in Australia and all 24 territories across the Middle East and North Africa

National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver told the SportNXT industry conference in Melbourne yesterday that sports leagues and athletes must accept their status as role models when it comes…

Media platform OneFootball has agreed a distribution deal to bring live Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football matches to its global user-base.

The USL W League, the United Soccer League's pre-professional women's league, has secured a global media rights deal with international sports broadcaster Eleven

Speaking at SportNXT, a three-day thought leadership summit in Melbourne, leading media executives urged a more symbiotic relationship between broadcasters and rights-holders to avoid being surpassed by…