United Kingdom

Motorsport

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is not thought to have seen any competition in its latest five-year renewal of British Touring Car Championship rights.
Football

Scottish Premiership side Rangers has forged closer ties with the Indian market in a deal to stream free UK coverage of Indian Super League matches on its club Facebook page
Swimming

LiveWire Sport, the UK-based digital content agency, has said that it is prepared to initiate court proceedings in England or Switzerland against the International Swimming League over debts it claims…
Esports

Blast Premier, the esports tournament organiser, has announced a rights agreement with the BBC for coverage of the final three Counter Strike: Global Offensive events of its 2020 season on the UK public-service…
Football

The English Football League has said piracy of its iFollow streaming service has surged after it removed restrictions on the number of matches fans could watch on the platform during the Covid-19 pandemic
Rugby Union

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport is to broadcast all Premiership Rugby matches played behind closed doors this season and will offer free access to club season ticket holders until at least the end…
Equestrian

International equestrian sports network Horse & Country has appointed the WePlay sports marketing agency to drive subscriptions to its H&C+ over-the-top streaming platform
Football

Scotland’s win over Serbia in last week’s Euro 2020 play-off attracted a peak audience of 2.6 million viewers in the UK after pay-television operator Sky made the match available on a free-to-air basis.
Football

The Premier League has announced that all fixtures from November 21, and throughout the Christmas and New Year period, will be made available to fans to watch live in the UK as the top division of English…
Basketball

The British Basketball League has been buoyed by the return of a rights deal with a domestic broadcaster in a two-year agreement with pay-television broadcaster Sky
Rugby Union

Six Nations Rugby, the organising body of the annual national team tournament, will restart its sales process in late January for broadcast rights in the UK to the Six Nations and Autumn Internationals,…
Football

Chelsea FC has become the first English Premier League club to sign a strategic partnership with popular Chinese social media platform Weibo
Multi-sport

UK sports media company River Media Partners (RMP) has hired Alex Carr, formerly strategic partnerships manager in the motorsport division of the IMG agency, as its head of global partnerships
Football

The Premier League has said a “broadcast solution” will be announced in due course amid multiple reports its controversial pay-per-view model introduced last month will be scrapped.
Multi-sport

Fan engagement and gamification company Sport Buff has appointed Jonty Whitehead, formerly head of sports in the Mena region at pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group, as its president
Football

Manchester United has become the latest English Premier League club to launch its own channel on the TikTok short-form video platform
Boxing

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 has agreed a deal with US-based Showtime Sports and the Premier Boxing Champions series to air this weekend’s world-title fight between Gervonta Davis and Leo Santa C…
Football

This Sunday’s USL Championship final between the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Phoenix Rising FC is to receive the widest-ever global exposure in the showpiece match’s history following a recent deal struck by …