Discovery

Tennis

Media group Discovery’s willingness to acquire more ATP Tour content in the Nordic region than rival broadcasters had in the current cycle was key to its successful acquisition of the property.
Tennis

US media group Discovery has agreed a four-year deal for a host of ATP Tour events, strengthening its tennis portfolio in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Golf

US media company Discovery has acquired the Golf Digest media brand and expanded its relationship with the PGA Tour, furthering its presence in the sport, it said on Monday
Golf

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has raised its annual outlay on two of golf’s majors, the PGA Championship and Open Championship, by almost half to secure its dominance over the sport in the DACH region against the threat of US media group Discovery.
Multi-sport

The French government strongly encouraged public-service broadcaster France Télévisions to reach an Olympics sublicensing deal with US media group Discovery for the 2022 to 2024 cycle to ensure the widest access to the Paris 2024 games, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

Divisionsforeningen, the body that acts on behalf of both Denmark's football clubs and the country's football federation, the Dansk Boldspil-Union, issued a tender on Wednesday for the domestic rights…
Multi-sport

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has agreed a deal with US media company Discovery for exclusive free-to-air rights to the Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 Olympics.
Golf

US-media giant Discovery will broadcast a series of head-to-head matches involving Tiger Woods on its GolfTV OTT streaming platform, in an extension of the parties’ existing content partnership.
Golf

GolfTV, the Discovery-owned online streaming service, has acquired rights in Norway, Poland and Russia to the Masters, the first men’s major of the year.
Football

A new player has emerged that could shake up the Danish sport-rights market before the upcoming domestic Danish Superliga tender after a subsidiary of the country’s largest telco, TDC Group, sublicensed English Premier League rights from Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group.

A number of US media and technology companies have teamed up with smart-television company Vizio to form a consortium to develop technical standards to support the delivery of tailored advertising to households, potentially …
Golf

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports’ new rights deal for the US PGA Championship is for the five-year period from 2019 to 2023, SportBusiness Media understands. This marks a rebuilding of the long-term partnership between rights-holder and broadcaster that ended in 2016 when Sky refused to meet rights distributor IMG’s valuation of the property.
Cycling

David Zaslav, president and chief executive of Discovery, has said that the US media company is keen on adding to its sports portfolio, and that it is “opportunistic” in using sport as a means to drive eng…
Tennis

The value of ATP Tour tennis rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland has once again dramatically increased amid intense competition for a year-round competition with a growing domestic interest
Cycling

US media group Discovery has significantly increased its stake in digital sports media company Play Sports Group, furthering its effort to create the world’s leading cycling media ecosystem.
Golf

GolfTV, the Discovery-owned online streaming service that will launch in January, will show coverage of the Ladies European Tour across 25 European countries until at least 2021
Basketball

Econet closes its African pay-TV platform and agrees repayment schedule with rights-holders Rights-holders affected by closure include the IOC, the NBA, Fifa and Uefa
Golf

C More has sold rights in Denmark for golf’s PGA Tour to Discovery Networks in a sublicensing deal, according to the Telecompaper news service.