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Sailing

Media-rights deals for the 36th America’s Cup sailing tournament prioritised supporting the competition’s key revenue vertical of sponsorship and building its fanbase for future iterations.
Football

Conmebol, South American football’s governing body, has advanced its invitation to tender process for commercial rights to its club competitions between 2023 and 2026 by asking interested companies to r…
Football

The Infront agency has promoted Andreas Kaeshammer to the role of global head of football and as a replacement for the experienced Stephan Herth who relinquished the job earlier in the year
Sailing

Organisers of the America’s Cup have signed a number of new rights contracts for the 36th edition of the sailing event, with the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella body of free-to-air broadcasters, a…
Football

Football media platform OneFootball has today (Tuesday) announced the acquisition of football-focused digital media company Dugout to form what the two parties claim will be the sport’s largest owned a…
Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has launched the bidding process for hosting its new second-tier national team competition, the FIH Nations Cup, which will be played in 2022 for the first time
Triathlon

Boosting the take-up of TriathlonLive, the direct-to-consumer OTT service operated jointly by the Infront agency and World Triathlon, is seen by experts as the agency’s best chance of increasing the margins on its global rights deal with the sport’s world governing body.
Motorsport

Infront Moto Racing, the promoter of the FIM Motocross World Championship, has unveiled a revamped version of the series' MXGP-TV OTT platform that will be powered by sports streaming and technology company…
Athletics

The Infront agency has agreed an exclusive three-year deal to sell international media rights to the World Athletics Indoor Tour
Football

The Spring Media agency is streaming live free-to-view coverage of several round-of-32 matches in Uefa’s Women’s Champions League on its dedicated women’s football OTT platform, Wnited. I
Multi-sport

Adding Eurosport’s content to a bundle of Discovery channels is the key to helping Discovery Communications build market share for its new subscription streaming platform discovery+ in an increasingly competitive OTT landscape, according to Andrew Georgiou, the president of Eurosport’s global sports rights and sports marketing solutions.
Boxing

Media company and OTT broadcaster DAZN has released details of a slate of original content programming featuring the likes of Portuguese star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and heavyweight boxer Anthony…
Multi-sport

Edgesport, the action sports channel operated by IMG, has added new content through an agreement with promoter Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and retained content licensed by GAME Sports Management in…
Rugby League

The UK-based media rights agency RDA has acquired the rights to exclusively distribute a documentary about rugby league’s Great Britain Lions’ 2019 tour to broadcasters worldwide.
Motorsport

Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series, has engaged media services company Red Bee Media to support its broadcast production worldwide in a technical services role
Motorsport

World Rally Championship has launched a dedicated channel on Motorsport.tv, the OTT streaming platform operated by digital media group Motorsport Network
Table Tennis

The World Table Tennis has appointed experienced industry executive Melissa Soobratty as senior media director to lead its overall media strategy
Triathlon

The PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona, a triathlon event to be held at the Daytona International Speedway, is to be broadcast domestically by Comcast and NBCUniversal’s Peacock subscription s…