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Motorsport
Europe

Media group Discovery has signed off on a five-year deal for rights to the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship
Motorsport
Global

Discovery-owned Eurosport Events will continue to promote the FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) until at least 2025 after signing off on a three-year renewal
Esports
Global

The International Olympic Committee has this morning announced that it has partnered with five international sports federations, game publishers and DreamHack Sports Games to launch the first-ever, Olympic-licensed…
Motorsport
Global

WRC Promoter, the commercial arm of the FIA World Rally Championship, has added the FIA World Rallycross Championship to its portfolio in a deal with the International Automobile Federation (FIA)
Motorsport
Global

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) is to launch a tender process to find a new promoter of the World Rallycross Championship as it continues negotiations with IMG about the early termination…
Motorsport
Global

The inaugural Motorsport Games has commenced in Rome today (Friday), backed by global broadcast coverage for the International Automobile Federation’s (FIA’s) new event.
Motorsport
Global

In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of motorsport.
Motorsport
United Kingdom

Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights to the FIA World Rallycross Championship in the UK and Ireland from 2019 in a multi-year deal
karting
Global

Rights-holder FIA Karting has made its content available on the Motorsport.tv OTT platform, and will show its events on the platform’s subscription-free service, which launched on Thursday.
Motorsport
Global

The Olympic Channel, the OTT media platform of the International Olympic Committee, has signed content partnerships with Latin American media group Claro Sports and the International Automobile Federation…

The World Endurance Championship motor racing series has extended its exclusive media-rights deal with the Infront agency. The new three-year deal will run from 2018-19 to 2020-21
Spain

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Formula E Championship electric car-racing series.
Sweden

Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT has acquired rights for motor-racing’s World Rallycross Championship.

Motorsport
Americas

A successful inaugural Formula E season drove Fox to extend its Latin and North American deals ahead of time.

Organisers of the World Rallycross Championship have said that the 2014 edition of the motor-racing series generated 444 per cent more television coverage than the previous year.

Motorsport

Interview with Oliver Ciesla, managing director of WRC Promoter, on the changes it has made to the World Rally Championship and how it is increasing audiences and rights fees.
France

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights for the Formula E Championship, the new electric car-racing series operated by the FIA, motorsport’s global governing body.

Motorsport

The IMG agency believes that the recent deals it secured with 30 broadcasters for the newly-launched FIA World Rallycross Championship are a strong indication that the agency’s long-term investment in the sport will pay off.