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Mediapro Canada, part of the international production and media-rights agency, has invited broadcasters to submit offers for Canadian Premier League rights in their territories, SportBusiness understands
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Mediapro chief executive Jaume Roures has issued a statement distancing himself from a financial guarantee provided to Joan Laporta following his recent election as FC Barcelona president
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Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has reduced its fee for rights to Spain’s LaLiga in Brazil, agreeing a six-season extension at a reduction of about 25 per cent on a per-season basis.
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The Mediapro agency is looking to restructure its debt and has applied for state aid as it seeks to secure its future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Brazilian basic-tier broadcaster TV Walter Abrahão has defaulted on its very first rights payment for rights to South America's Fifa 2022 World Cup qualifying tournament, losing the rights just over a …
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LaLiga is the latest European football league to make gains in Poland, seeing the value of its rights in the country rise by nearly a third in a five-season renewal with Eleven Sports.
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Live coverage of Belgian football’s Jupiler Pro League is to be shown in the US on subscription streaming service ESPN+ as part of a wider five-year agreement with the Disney-owned broadcaster.
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The Mediapro agency has entered into a deal with Concacaf to help secure international media-rights deals for the regional soccer governing body's flagship tournaments, the Gold Cup and Scotiabank Champions…
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OneSoccer, Mediapro’s over-the-top sports streaming service in Canada, has secured broadcast rights in the country to the SheBelieves Cup and the Concacaf men's Olympic qualifying tournament.
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LaLiga and Mediapro, the Spanish production group and rights agency, have incorporated a new state-of-the-art pitchside camera into the host broadcast of matches from the Spanish top flight
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The bid deadline for broadcast rights to Serie A in the Middle East and North Africa has been pushed back by two weeks and will now fall at 10am (CET) on February 15
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Subscription sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired all rights in Poland to Spain’s LaLiga from the 2021-22 season onwards and has immediately agreed to sublicense half to pay-television broadcaster P…
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TV Walter Abrahão, a youth-oriented basic-tier channel launched in May last year, has shocked the Brazilian sports industry by acquiring the rights to a bulk package of South American qualifiers to the …
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The collapse in December of the French football league’s media-rights deal with Mediapro is the biggest market setback suffered by a European league for nearly two decades – since the failure of the ITV Digital pay-television platform nearly bankrupted the English Football League in 2002.
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The Mediapro agency has ‘opened talks’ with LaLiga, the governing body of Spain’s top two professional football tiers, over a reduction in its rates for rights to broadcast matches in public spaces. T
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has launched its invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights for the remainder of the 2020-24 cycle after the collapse of its previous contract with a…
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Mediapro, the agency and production group that is closing down its Téléfoot subscription service in France after the collapse of its French football broadcast deal, has offered to continue to show Ligue 1…
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The 2021 Trophée des Champions football match will be shown live in France by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus as well as Téléfoot, the subscription service of the Mediapro agency and production gr…