MP & Silva

Polish pay-television operator NC Plus has agreed a deal to extend its rights partnership with the Ekstraklasa, the top division of football in the country, according to multiple reports.

International broadcaster Eurosport agreed a spate of rights deals late last week as it continues to invest heavily in locally-relevant content.

The award of the domestic live rights to Poland’s top football league, the Ekstraklasa, is likely to come down to a straight shootout between the incumbent rights-holder, pay-television platform NC Plus, and Eleven, the new channel operated by Andrea Radrizzani.

The Football Kenya Federation is embroiled in two separate, but related, disputes which will have a major impact on how both domestic league and national team rights are sold.

Qualifier matches for the 2019 Asian Cup begin on June 11 with about a dozen Asian football federations yet to sell second- and third-party media rights to their home matches to an agency.

MP & Silva has snapped up William Mao from video-sharing website YouTube to serve as the agency’s new vice-president of digital operations in the Americas.

MP & Silva will distribute the global rights to Miami FC matches after the agency’s president and founder, Riccardo Silva, teamed up with Italian football legend Paolo Maldini to form the new North American Soccer League team.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has agreed a three-year extension to its exclusive rights deal for Serie A, the top division of Italian football.

Andrea Radrizzani, one of the founders of the MP & Silva agency, is set to launch his own football channels under the Eleven brand. It had long been anticipated that Radrizzani would create his own business outside the agency, but the nature of the project has surprised many in the industry.

The Polish football league, the Ekstraklasa, is to launch a league channel in a joint venture with its media-rights adviser MP & Silva after offers from broadcasters fell below expectations, TV Sports Markets understands.

The Fox International Channels broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox is challenging rival pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and Polsat in the sales process for domestic rights for the Ekstraklasa, the top division of football in Poland, according to the RP news website.

MP & Silva’s deal to distribute National Football League rights in Europe is a “landmark” deal for the agency, according to senior vice president Daniel Cohen.

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport is thought to be paying a strong rights fee for Major League Soccer rights across Europe, excluding the UK, in its four-year deal agreed last week.

Interview with Daniel Cohen, senior vice president, the Americas, at MP & Silva on the agency’s new NFL deal.

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a deal to market the NFL American football league’s media rights across 42 European territories.

The MP & Silva agency has appointed Sherman Tan to the newly created role of head of strategic partnership and business development in Asia.