MotoGP

Motorcycling’s MotoGP World Championship, through its commercial rights-holder Dorna Sports, has extended its agreement with Facebook for another year.

The value of MotoGP rights in New Zealand has more than doubled in deals finalised last month with telco Spark and free-to-air broadcaster Three.

Chinese sports streaming platform Zhibo.tv has agreed a five-year deal for media rights for the MotoGP motorcycle racing world championship, beginning with the 2021 season. Zhibo

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote has retained rights to the MotoGP motorcycling series for a further three seasons

Motor cycling’s MotoGP has announced the launch of a virtual racing competition involving star riders from the series.

MotoGP’s commercial rights-holder Dorna Sports has made a number of the motorcycling series’ documentaries available to watch free of charge in the absence of live sport due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Motogp.com

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Brasil has acquired exclusive rights to the forthcoming season of the MotoGP motorcycle-racing series

International sports streaming service DAZN has renewed an agreement for MotoGP rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

NBC Sports will broadcast all MotoGP races across its platforms beginning in 2020, including four races on the main NBC network

UK digital channel Quest has acquired exclusive rights for free-to-air highlights of the MotoGP motorcycle-racing world championship

Streaming platform DAZN has acquired rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to the MotoGP motorcycle-racing series. The deal covers the 2019 season, which gets underway this weekend in Qatar