Global

Basketball

Five broadcast deals have been agreed in the Asia-Pacific region for the semi-finals and final of the 2020 Canadian Elite Basketball League Summer Series tournament
Triathlon

SLT Arena Games, the new triathlon event that amalgamates real-life and virtual racing, has secured broadcast coverage in 135 territories
Multi-sport

DAZN Group, the global sports subscription service and media company, has undertaken a reshuffle of its executive team and will look to develop more non-live content as it continues to respond to the sizeable…
Multi-sport

Subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports is plotting a return to the UK, albeit via an entirely different model to the one adopted during the short-lived entry to the market that was ultimately scuppered…
Multi-sport

A dramatic fall in advertising caused by the Covid-19 pandemic led to a 23-per-cent drop in second-quarter revenues at the international division of Discovery, the US-based media group that owns pan-European…
Motorsport

German automotive manufacturer Mercedes has launched a dedicated channel on Motorsport.tv, the OTT streaming platform operated by digital media group Motorsport Network
Multi-sport

The Walt Disney Co.’s streaming success during the last quarter, in part through ESPN+, help counter what was otherwise a historically poor quarter for the company.
Football

The CAA Eleven agency is to offer broadcasters the opportunity to bid for rights to both the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Uefa European Championship tournaments, SportBusiness understands, as it goes…
Multi-sport

Melissa Payne, vice-president and head of technical operations at IMG, has left the agency after two decades
Multi-sport

International subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports has unveiled details of a rebrand and three new programming verticals that will sit underneath the Eleven umbrella name
Multi-sport

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Football

Streaming platform Twitch has acquired the rights to a pair of friendly matches featuring French Ligue 1 side Dijon Football Côte D’Or.
Multi-sport

Global sports marketing agency Infront is set to include the services of AI business Minute.ly in pitches to existing and future clients. Infront acquired a stake in Minute
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, issued a request for proposals today (Monday) for anti-piracy services to protect its main competitions.
Table Tennis

World Table Tennis, the new commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation, is continuing conversations with a view to selling further shares to private equity investors
Multi-sport

WAVE.tv, the California-based sports media company, has closed a Series A funding round worth $32m (€27.6m) to help build its roster of media brands and acquire companies.
Football

Twitch, the Amazon-owned online streaming platform primarily associated with esports, has made its most significant move yet in ‘traditional’ sports with the creation of a standalone sports vertical on …
Motorsport

Digital media group Motorsport Network has launched Motorsport Studios, a new global distribution and production platform