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DR secured a three-year deal for its Wimbledon rights following a one-year agreement last year as Denmark continues to provide strong returns for tennis rights-holders. 

A grand slam has been broadcast on Tennis TV for the first time after ATP Media's OTT subscription streaming service stepped in to provide coverage in New Zealand of this year's Wimbledon, which concludes on Sunday.

The values of Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa media rights have grown in Pakistan through deals with Ten Sports and ARY, respectively, as the market continues its trend of slight growth, fuelled by pay-TV broadcast competition as well as the entrance of multiple digital players.

Guillermo Santa Cruz and James Tree, two of IMG’s most senior executives in the Americas, are leaving the agency.

Sports broadcaster Eurosport will continue to be the home of all four Grand Slams across much of Europe after media group Warner Bros. Discovery renewed its Wimbledon rights across 11 territories at a slight uplift. 

The US’s top-tier National Women’s Soccer League has achieved a substantial increase in its media rights fees, though the cash value of its agreements is understood to be short of the ‘40x’ total uplift that has been reported.

The IMG agency is once again the standout candidate to secure global in-flight and in-ship media rights to major Fifa tournaments after an invitation to tender (ITT) was issued

BeIN Sports renewed its exclusive Wimbledon rights in France for a further five years after agreeing to pay a slight uplift.

A total of 79 FA Cup matches each season will continue to be streamed exclusively on ESPN+ in the US market for four more seasons after the Disney-owned broadcaster reached a renewal agreement with IMG.

The merging of Endeavor’s OpenBet and IMG Arena has led to a high-profile casualty as Max Wright, who has been with IMG for 11 years, negotiating various betting rights deals with sports bodies, leaves the company.

Dutch football’s Eredivisie is looking for an agency or agencies to represent its international broadcast and betting video rights, a property held for 24 years by IMG.

Ongoing payment delays at Skweek threaten to erode rights-holders’ confidence despite its insistence that it merely requires more time, yet there are signs of it working through its issues with Euroleague Basketball, certainly until the end of the season at least.

The Euro 2024 deal comes with rights on the market for in-flight and in-ship broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27

A new, five-year deal between IMG and the English Football League will facilitate a sizeable jump in broadcast production specification for matches that currently go out on the iFollow streaming service

Mark Shapiro, president and chief operating officer of Endeavor, has secured a salary increase to $7m (€6.4m) on the back of the agreement struck to take the sports and entertainment giant private.

The OTT platform launched by the R&A using Endeavor Streaming technology has been set up to gather consumer data and provide a vehicle to stream the Open in markets devoid of competition.