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Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe president Andrew Georgiou said “simplification has to be the overriding objective” for the media conglomerate’s joint venture with telco BT after announcing the merger of the Eurosport and BT Sport pay-television channels under a single TNT Sports brand in the UK and Ireland.
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Combat sports promotion the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is moving to FITE+, the American digital streaming service, with immediate effect following an agreement between the two parties
Finance & Law Multiple Sports

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has announced plans to shut its ORF Sport + linear television channel as part of a wider range of measures designed to save around €300m ($319.7m) by 2026.
Media Multiple Sports

US financial services company Ally has agreed a multi-year marketing deal with the Walt Disney Company focusing on the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college sports organisation that is designed to advance…
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Formula 1 has moved to address the lack of a broadcast deal in India by launching the premium version of its in-house streaming service, F1 TV Pro
Media Rugby Union

Broadcast rights to the Rugby World Cup have once again been split in Japan across free-to-air and pay television in deals for this year’s tournament with NHK, Nippon TV and J Sports.
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RMC Sport, the French subscription broadcaster owned by telco Altice, has enhanced its combat sports offering by agreeing a rights deal with Polish mixed martial arts promotion KSW
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Mexican pay-television sports channel Afizzionados has added Spanish LaLiga club FC Barcelona to its portfolio of sponsorship deals with major European teams
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Subscription pay-TV broadcaster Viaplay has claimed to have “no interest” in winning back the Uefa Champions League in Sweden unless the current rights fee paid by TV4 Media drops dramatically.
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DAZN has kept hold of Formula 1 rights in one of its core markets, retaining the property in Japan until 2025.