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North American basketball league the NBA has agreed a multi-year extension to a digital content partnership in Germany with Spox.com, the online streaming website owned by digital sports media company Perform.

Digital sports media company Perform Group has launched a new IP retail betting service that will also be made available over satellite.

The premier men’s and women’s tennis tours struck new media rights deals in Canada last month, both earning decent rights-fee increases.

Digital sports media company Perform has acquired exclusive rights for the English Premier League in Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, while Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has been awarded rights for the top division of football in England.

The Perform Group is in advanced talks over a deal for Women’s Tennis Association rights in France from 2017, TV Sports Markets understands.

The Perform Group will next year launch two OTT subscription services – one in Japan and one across Germany, Austria and Switzerland – as part of a move which could transform how live sport is delivered to consumers.

Interview with Simon Denyer, chief executive of the Perform Group, on the company’s plans to set up an OTT service in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Japan.

The Perform Group has acquired betting rights to Spain’s LaLiga and France’s Ligue 1 in recent weeks, affirming its position as the leading supplier of streaming rights to bookmakers.

German Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich has signed a global media partnership with specialist digital football platform Goal.com.

The global betting rights for Spain’s LaLiga will come to the market this summer, at a time when the betting rights market is reaching a fever pitch due to the aggressive entrance of the IMG Events & Media agency.

Interview with Michel Masquelier, chairman of IMG Events & Media, on the agency’s increasing expansion into the betting rights market.

Goal.com, the football news website that is operated by digital sports media company Perform, has agreed a strategic partnership with Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group.

The Women's Tennis Association and digital sports media company Perform have named the senior management team for their broadcast production and distribution media partnership, WTA Media.

Perform co-founder and joint-chief executive Oliver Slipper has stepped down from his current role to take up a non-executive position on the board of the digital sports media group.

Digital sports content provider Perform has agreed a four-year extension to its partnership with Fisu, the governing body of international university sport.

Digital sports media company Perform has struck a long-term strategic partnership with the Reuters news agency to syndicate and distribute content across the two parties’ platforms.