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Football

The Mediapro agency and production group is thought to have proposed a reduction of close to 25 per cent in its broadcast rights fee for the 2020-21 French league season as its stand-off with France’s P…
Multi-sport

Pete Bevacqua, newly promoted to chairman of NBC Sports, said he believes that sports ratings on American television will return to more normal patterns following the impending conclusion of the country’s p…
Cricket

Cricket Australia has announced a new deal with streaming platform LIVENow to broadcast live coverage from all international matches on India’s tour of Australia as well as the KFC Big Bash League and s…
Football

The Premier League has said a “broadcast solution” will be announced in due course amid multiple reports its controversial pay-per-view model introduced last month will be scrapped.
Football

Gazprom Media-owned Match TV has signed a new deal extending its Bundesliga rights in Russia for a further four seasons, from 2021-22 to 2024-25
Chess

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a deal with Play Magnus Group, the digital chess company founded by current world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, for the pan-European and Asian rights…
Multi-sport

A state-controlled sports media company set up by the Saudi Arabia authorities would only look to secure broadcast rights in the country and not across the Middle East and North Africa, according to the…
Sailing

Sportall, a new OTT streaming platform for mobile users, has launched in France with an initial offering of more than 20 sports
Football

Amazon Prime, the video streaming arm of internet retail giant Amazon, has sealed a carriage deal in Italy for the television channel of Italian Serie A club Juventus
Multi-sport

American sports media giant ESPN said it will lay off about 300 employees and not fill 200 other open positions, a heavy cutback for the Walt Disney Co.-owned company amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic