United Kingdom

Sky Sports Racing, which is set to become the new identity for pay-television channel At The Races, has today (Tuesday) signed a rights deal with Ascot Racecourse, replacing rival Racing UK as the pay-television partner for the leading British venue.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights in the UK and Ireland to cricket’s Caribbean Premier League.

UK racecourse owner and operator Arena Racing Company, and Greek firm Vermantia, a leading provider of multi-channel content solutions for lotteries, gaming and betting operators, have launched the European Racing Channel, claiming it will provide the most complete offering of its kind worldwide for the betting market.

The Premier League’s 20 clubs are unconcerned about the small drop in the value of their domestic live rights in the next cycle, following deals this month with BT and Amazon that brought the protracted sales process to a close.

UK telco BT has today (Thursday) signed a carriage partnership with internet company Amazon which will bring the latter’s sports content offered via Prime Video to pay-television service BT TV.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has been appointed as the host broadcaster of the Athletics World Cup, which will be hosted at the London Stadium on July 14-15.

US technology company Oculus has said it will provide live streaming of select Fifa World Cup matches through Oculus Venues, its new app for social co-viewing.

The RDA agency will look to extract more value from Australia and New Zealand and strike deals in the Pacific Islands for the first time, after taking over international rights to the Super League.

UK telco BT, parent company of pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, has today (Friday) announced that Gavin Patterson will depart as chief executive, stating it needs a change of leadership to deliver on its reform plans.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has struck a three-year extension to its rights deal for tennis grand slam the French Open.

Internet company Amazon and pay-television broadcaster BT Sport have today (Thursday) acquired the final set of domestic rights to the English Premier League, with the football competition also wrapping up its rights line-up in Ireland.

The ‘big six’ clubs from football’s English Premier League have today (Thursday) succeeded in forcing through a change to the rules which will grant them a greater share of revenue the competition generates from international broadcast rights.