Eleven Sports

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired exclusive rights to the 2018 PGA Championship, with the US golf major to serve as its launch event in the UK and Ireland

The success of Eleven Sports’ soon-to-launch UK and Ireland operation – in partnership with the IMG agency – will depend on the broadcaster’s ability to negotiate fruitful carriage deals with operators that did not bid aggressively for the properties Eleven will base its channels upon.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has further bolstered its content portfolio ahead of its impending launch in the UK and Ireland by acquiring rights to three football leagues

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has hired Giuliano Giorgetti as its new managing director in Italy, with the former Serie A club executive also set to take on a broader role within parent…

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in Portugal to football’s Uefa Youth League.

Eleven Sports has acquired rights for Italian Serie A top-tier football in the UK and Ireland and confirmed that the IMG agency will hold a minority stake in the two new channels that will show the coverage

Eleven Sports’ surprise entrance into the UK sports-rights market will have been welcomed by rights-holders around the world.

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports bolstered its Belgian sports portfolio last month, buying rights to Italy’s Serie A and Germany’s Bundesliga ahead of carriage negotiations.

The 2018 Olympic Games was shown live in Singapore after a late deal with pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports, which showed some coverage free-to-air.

Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.

The NBA has increased its annual media-rights value in Taiwan via a new agreement with Videoland, which has subsequently sublicensed rights to Eleven Sports.

Eleven Sports last month acquired the remaining package of German Bundesliga rights in Poland, ensuring its control over the league’s coverage in the country.

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports Network will pay a small fee to show Fiba events in Taiwan in an exclusive five-year deal agreed last month.

NC Plus has renewed its rights to the three most important speedway properties in Poland – the Speedway World Cup, Speedway Grand Prix and the Polish Ekstraliga – but will share the Ekstraliga with Eleven Sports Network from 2019.

The future of Eleven Sports Network in Singapore is uncertain after the pay-television broadcaster terminated its deal to show the English Premier League.

Eleven Sports Network said this week its strategy of targeting second-tier rights in larger markets, and running a ‘lean and mean’ business operation, would succeed in Italy, despite the country’s pay-television market having proved difficult for other players.