English Premier League

Australian telco Optus has renewed its exclusive rights for the English Premier League for the next six seasons, in a deal running from 2022-23 to 2027-28

NBC Sports has retained the United States media rights to the Premier League amid fierce competition in a record-setting deal which covers the 2022-23 season through 2027-28

The outcome of the auction of US broadcast rights to the Premier League will not be known for at least another week after the tender process went to a second round

The English Premier League has appointed Kaiyan Chen as head of media sales in the Asia-Pacific region, starting in December

The English Premier League’s head of media sales for Asia-Pacific, Michael Edelston, is leaving the organisation to take up a senior media-rights role at Formula E.

The English Premier League last week launched a media rights tender in Australia for its upcoming rights cycle, 2022-23 to 2024-25, with first-round bids due by November 15

Fevered competition between Telekom Srbija and United Media Group has produced one of the biggest cycle-on-cycle increases in the history of the sports media rights business.

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Match TV has doubled down on its aggressive sports rights acquisition strategy, paying a stratospheric increase to reclaim English Premier League rights in Russia.

The English Premier League has launched its ‘Boot Out Piracy’ campaign in Singapore for the first time, highlighting the increased risks of cybercrime through watching illegal, pirated video content.

The UK government has approved the English Premier League’s rolling over of its current broadcast deals with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime and BBC Sport for another three years.

Gazprom Media-owned free-to-air and pay-television broadcaster Match TV has secured exclusive media rights in Russia to the English Premier League from 2022-23 onwards

African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport kept its English Premier League rights fee flat in a three-season renewal completed in private negotiations last year, SportBusiness Media has learned.

The English Premier League has extended Sky Deutschland’s exclusive rights deal in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) on the same terms, but the conclusion of a similar deal with Sky Italia must wait until 2022.

The new three-year deals, from 2022-23 to 2024-25, would replicate the current three-year deals, from 2019-20 to 2021-22. This includes the duration, the fee and the number of matches.

NBC Sports has announced it will move all non-televised Premier League games to NBCUniversal's new subscription-based, over-the-top video service Peacock beginning with the 2020-21 season.