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Sky Italia’s head of sports rights, programming and production Matteo Mammì said today that his impending departure from the company was not linked to Lega Serie A’s search for a chief executive. He
Football

Bulgarian commercial broadcaster Nova has acquired English Premier League rights in a new three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22, directly from the rights-holder

NBC Sports Group has continued its round of horse racing rights renewals, this time agreeing a six-year deal to show the Royal Ascot meeting in the US

Discovery and the PGA Tour have announced their first sublicensing deal since agreeing a 12-year joint venture to exploit the Tour’s international rights in June.

Cord-cutting continued at a rapid pace in the US during Q3 2018, as the top-10 US pay-television operators suffered a combined loss of over 877,000 subscribers to their linear offerings, according to a…
Football

The European Broadcasting Union has finalised a deal for rights to “other Fifa events” until 2022 in 38 territories.

Deltatre has announced it has a definitive agreement to acquire OTT software company Massive Interactive. Massive Interactive is known for its user interface and audience engagement technology
Cricket

There is still gas in the Cricket Australia explosion
Baseball

Michael Treanor, Major League Baseball’s producer of live events, has insisted the league’s partnership with social media company Facebook has been a success despite mixed reactions to the deal.

Esports tournament organiser ESL has hired Frank Uddo as its new senior vice-president of global media partnerships