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Multi-sport

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is reported to have put forward a plan to close its sports channel amid a wider cost-cutting effort
Swimming

The International Swimming League has launched a new OTT platform that offers live streaming of events in nations that lack broadcast coverage, as well as supplementary programming to content provided…
Football

The dispute between France’s Professional Football League (LFP) and its domestic broadcast rights-holder Mediapro, the agency and production group, has intensified after the league body referred its c…
Football

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) and the newly-created Professional Football League (LPF) have cancelled pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports’ rights agreement for the Primera División, the to…
Football

The Disney-owned direct-to-consumer streaming platform ESPN+ has acquired US broadcast rights to the Scottish Premiership in one of a string of broadcast deals finalised by the Infront agency
Football

Jonathan Hill, the former agency executive and ex-commercial director at the Football Association, has been named as the new chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)
Multi-sport

The Nigerian division of pan-African media group Multichoice has argued that a proposed pay-as-you-go billing model is not technically or commercially viable
Rugby Union

Commercial station TalkSport is set to retain radio rights in the UK for the British and Irish Lions’ tour of South Africa next year.
Football

Live Carabao Cup and English Football League Championship matches will be shown in Singapore and Indonesian from this month after deals were struck by the Singapore-based Reddentes Sports agency and Pitch…
Rugby Union

Canal Plus will show the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and Brive on its C8 free-to-air channel