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Finance & Law Multiple Sports

Highlight Communications is considering a sale of German media group Sport1 Medien or some of its constituent parts as it seeks to raise investment
Data Basketball

Data, technology and broadcast services group Genius Sports has signed a long-term deal with the Vietnam Pro Basketball League (VBA) covering official data tools, live betting streaming distribution and…
Media Basketball

The National Basketball Association's playoffs averaged 5.47 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, and TNT, making them the most-watched playoffs in the past five years
Media Sailing

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired free-to-air rights to the upcoming SailGP season, while Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed a deal to exclusively cover the sailing series in New Zealand
Media Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has issued an invitation to tender for media rights for the Uefa Women’s Euro 2025 national team tournament in 45 European territories, including major markets suc…
Media Football

ARD has announced a sublicensing deal with telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom that will see the public-service broadcaster and its regional affiliates show live coverage of 68 matches from 3
Industry Moves Multiple Sports

Peter Nørrelund has returned to the role of Viaplay’s chief sports officer just two and a half months after resigning from the position.
Media Football

Coverage of the upcoming Fifa Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be made available to free-to-air broadcasters across the Pacific Islands, thanks to an agreement with the Pacific Cooperation…
Media Football

The BBC is “absolutely committed” to securing a rights deal for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup, the UK public-service broadcaster’s chief content officer has said. Fif
Media Football

Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and commercial broadcaster M6 have acquired rights to women’s national team football, while pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has extended its deal for…