United Kingdom

Netball

Sky has retained rights to the UK’s Netball Superleague in a multi-year agreement that the pay-television broadcaster says will give the competition “its greatest visibility to date”. T
Wrestling

US promotion Impact Wrestling has announced that its UK and Ireland broadcast model will switch to streaming via Facebook and YouTube, as of this week
Motorsport

Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has retained rights in the UK and Ireland to motorcycling’s MotoGP series until 2024.
Multi-sport

UK-based production company Sunset+Vine has appointed David Tippett as its new managing director
Multi-sport

Sky, the Comcast-owned European pay-television broadcaster, has reported a 3
Rugby League

UK public service broadcaster the BBC has kept its outlay on rugby league’s Challenge Cup steady in its latest renewal, for the 2022-24 cycle.
Athletics

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired exclusive rights to the 2021 World Athletics Indoor Tour
Football

UK sports rights experts say the English Premier League will delay its domestic media rights auction until April or May with a view to having deals in place prior to Euro 2020, which begins on June 11.
Multi-sport

Events promotion company Matchroom Sport has created a media production arm that will adopt the Matchroom brand
Cricket

A lack of competition, Sky’s reduced appetite for international cricket and match delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have driven down the value of Sri Lanka Cricket’s rights in the UK.
Cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a series of international media-rights deals covering cricket played in the country during the 2021 to 2023 period
Multi-sport

Online retail giant Amazon secured almost half of all new UK subscriptions to streaming services in the final quarter of last year, according to new data. The UK witnessed almost 1
Football

The English Premier League will continue to make available all its matches for broadcast in the UK until at least the last weekend of February
Football

Sunday's English Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United averaged 4.5 million viewers and peaked at 4
Multi-sport

A new direct-to-customer video platform has been unveiled that claims it can transform the sports broadcasting landscape, with its backers revealing that talks have already been held with several “high-profile” rig…
Multi-sport

Leading darts and snooker events will continue to enjoy exposure on free-to-air broadcaster ITV in a new agreement
Football

English football’s fifth-tier, the National League, bucked the market trend to secure an increase in its media-rights fee in its latest domestic renewal with telco BT.
Rugby Union

Six Nations Rugby, the organising body of the annual national team tournament, has slightly delayed to February the restart of its sales process for broadcast rights in the UK to the Six Nations and Autumn…