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The continued importance of linear media-rights deals means it will take at least a decade before direct-to-consumer platforms become rights-holders’ main avenue for distributing content, according to a…
Multi-sport

Discovery, the owner of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, has today (Wednesday) unveiled its new global OTT streaming service, which will be called discovery+ and will marry sports content with…
Football

IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has renewed its international betting streaming rights to Poland’s Ekstraklasa for four more seasons.
Football

Conmebol, South American football’s governing body, has approved the launch of an invitation to tender for commercial rights to its club competitions between 2023 and 2026.
Ice Hockey

Commercial Sports Media, the Sweden-based sports marketing agency and consultancy, is to market international broadcast rights to Germany’s premier ice hockey league, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
Multi-sport

Sports technology company OZ Sports has recruited Tom Redman from DAZN, the global sports subscription service and media company, as chief financial officer
Multi-sport

Wanda Sports Group, the owner of the Infront agency, among other interests in sport, has reported a 42-per-cent drop in third-quarter revenues, primarily due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic coupled…
Multi-sport

Sports data and technology company Stats Perform has acquired the automated video highlights and fan excitement technology platforms from the California-based Thuuz Sports
Boxing

The global streaming service of media company DAZN has gone live today (Tuesday) and will broadcast live coverage of Billy Joe Saunders’ WBO super-middleweight title defence against fellow Englishman M…
Multi-sport

Google-owned streaming giant YouTube has promoted Tomos Grace to the position of head of media and sport in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Tennis

GVC Holdings, the sports betting group that houses bookmakers including Bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, and Sportingbet, has become the first client to be announced as taking the expanded Women’s Tennis Association d…
Multi-sport

Inside this issue: FOOTBALL: Uefa national-team rights value swells in Scandinavia in six-season deals FOOTBALL: Mena drives Bundesliga fee shortfall, mixed results for Fox replacements
Cricket

Streaming platform LIVENow has broadened its cricket portfolio by acquiring rights to the new Lanka Premier League tournament
Swimming

The International Swimming League has vowed to “honour all obligations” to companies still awaiting payment from its inaugural 2019 season, while asserting that its commercial activities have “failed” thus fa…
Boxing

Kazakhstani boxer Gennady Golovkin will return to action with a fight against Poland’s Kamil Szeremeta on December 18 that will be streamed live and exclusively in over 200 countries and territories b…
Tennis

Sports data and technology company Stats Perform has finalised a six-year agreement for the Women’s Tennis Association’s data rights, adding to its existing betting streaming rights to the women’s tour. I
Multi-sport

Content Arena, the online media rights trading platform, has announced the addition of sports news video provider SNTV to its marketplace as a seller
Cricket

Sri Lankan state-owned broadcaster ITN has acquired domestic rights to the Lanka Premier League