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Motorsport

The Formula One motor-racing series has announced that this year’s pre-season tests will receive coverage on its F1 TV Pro over-the-top streaming service.
Football

Live Portuguese-language streaming of matches from the Copa do Brasil is being offered internationally on a new OTT platform launched for the Brazilian club knockout tournament
Gymnastics

The European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) has agreed a four-year extension to its global rights deal with Eurovision Sport, the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters
Esports

Sport’s traditional model of the exclusive territory-by-territory sale of media rights is not one that fits esports, according to a leading executive from Riot Games, the esports event organiser and v…
Football

Dorna Sports, commercial rights-holder of MotoGP and the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK), has engaged LaLiga, organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, to aid its efforts…
Multi-sport

The international pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has appointed former Sky Sports commercial director, Richard Verow, to head up its global sports acquisitions and distribution business
Rugby Union

France's Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for head of broadcast rights and content
Handball

DAZN Group has reiterated its intention to ensure transparency in its joint 10-year European Handball Federation rights agreement with the Infront agency given the digital sports media company is also…
Multi-sport

LaLiga, the governing body for the top-two divisions of Spanish football, has agreed a deal with tech firm Samsung to carry the LaLigaSportsTV OTT platform
Boxing

The International Olympic Committee's Olympic Channel will provide exclusive global digital coverage of the five boxing qualification events for Tokyo 2020 taking place between February and May
Cycling

Italian streaming platform PMG Sport has agreed a three-year extension to its media-rights deal for cycling’s Tour of the Alps, with the latest contract widening its remit to marketing.
Cycling

Global viewing figures for the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) 2019 Road World Championships rose by 31 per cent from the previous year’s event, according to organiser Welcome to Yorkshire.
Esports

US interactive entertainment company Activision Blizzard has agreed a wide-ranging strategic relationship with Google through which the internet company’s video-sharing platform, YouTube, will become t…
Horse Racing

This year’s edition of the Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series US horse-racing event will benefit from television exposure in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean for the first time courtesy o…
Multi-sport

Inside this issue: FOOTBALL: Europa League value falls in France in wake of Champions League frenzy FOOTBALL: Premier League goes early in Nordics and opens up option of premium six-season deal
Ice Hockey

Infront secured broadcast agreements in more than 155 territories for last year’s edition of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Championships.
Motorsport

The Formula E electric motor car series has unveiled the introduction of a helmet camera to its broadcast coverage of races
Golf

The PGA Tour has announced an expansive agreement with Facebook to distribute daily highlight packages globally on Facebook Watch in 2020, starting at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open.