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Golden Boy Promotions has struck a deal with Facebook that will allow the social media platform to stream live coverage of a series of the promoter’s boxing events.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organising body of Wimbledon, has renewed deals for the grand slam tournament with broadcast partners in France, Spain, Japan and the Middle East and North Africa.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has acquired rights for the 2018 Melbourne World Cup of Golf.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired rights for Serie B, the second division of Italian football.

Live-streaming platform Mycujoo will show live coverage of tournaments operated by Beach Soccer, the promoter and event organiser operated by Beach Soccer Worldwide.

Viasat, the Norwegian pay-television operator run by Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), has staved off the threat of a blackout of Fifa World Cup matches by agreeing a new carriage deal with commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2.

Tony Hall, the director general of the BBC, has been elected as the new president of the European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of European public-service broadcasters.

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal has added video-sharing platform YouTube as a new rights partner for the second season of the Rocket League, the esports competition it organises alongside competitive gaming platform FACEIT.