Warner Bros. Discovery

Multi-sport

The bidding alliance formed by the EBU and WBD faced no pan-European competition from an agency alternative during the IOC's recent tender, prompting protracted negotiations over the fee and additional inventory to get a deal over the line.
Baseball
Media

Major League Baseball has added three executives to its new local media department amid financial struggles for 17 teams' regional sports networks (RSN) at Bally Sports and AT&T SportsNet
Motorsport
Media

Media group Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe has agreed a broadcast rights deal with the fledgling World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC)
Multiple Sports
Media

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports has told employees at its AT&T SportsNet channels that it plans to leave the regional sports network (RSN) business in the United States. Warner Bros
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Media group Warner Bros. Discovery reported a net loss of $2.1bn (€1.98bn) in the fourth quarter of 2022 despite generating $11bn in revenue over the period.
Multiple Sports
Media

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe president Andrew Georgiou said “simplification has to be the overriding objective” for the media conglomerate’s joint venture with telco BT after announcing the merger of the Eurosport and BT Sport pay-television channels under a single TNT Sports brand in the UK and Ireland.
Tennis
Media

Media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired rights to the US Open tennis grand slam in 45 markets across Europe as part of a new five-year agreement with the United States Tennis Association from 2023 to 2027.
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Industry Moves

Jonathan Davies, previously the head of advertising partnerships across Europe for Eurosport and owner Discovery, has joined SRI, the sports executive recruitment firm, as its partner, media and entertainment,…
Tennis

Commercial broadcaster ServusTV secured renewals at flat fees for free-to-air rights in Austria to the Australian Open and French Open, after striking sublicensing deals with media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery.
Basketball
Media

Record numbers of viewers watched Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James become the National Basketball Association's all-time leading scorer with 38,388 points and counting during the Lakers-Oklahoma City…
Football
Media

France’s Ligue 1 has a permanent home in the Spanish broadcast market once again after Eurosport acquired exclusive rights to all matches during the remainder of the 2022-23 season and the whole of the 2…
Motorcycling
Media

Infront Moto Racing, which manages the exclusive broadcast, marketing and promotional rights to the FIM Motocross World Championship, has signed a new three-year rights deal with Warner Bros
Multi-sport
Media

The recent capture of Olympics broadcast rights by the European Broadcasting Union in a joint deal with Warner Bros
Skiing

As the battle over the centralisation of skiing rights rumbles on, Infront’s on-sale of Swiss-Ski rights has sprung no surprises, with the agency discreetly agreeing deals with existing FIS World Cup broadcasters.
Multi-sport
Media

The European Broadcasting Union and Warner Bros. Discovery intend to discuss greater cross promotion of Olympic content following the pair’s joint four-Games rights deal in Europe.
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Industry Moves

Alberto Horta has joined the IMG agency as its senior vice-president and managing director for the DACH markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, following a lengthy tenure at media group Warner Bros
Multi-sport
Media

The European Broadcasting Union has recaptured broadcast rights to the Olympic Games in a joint four-Games deal with incumbent rights-holder Warner Bros. Discovery
Biathlon
Media

Media group Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed a new deal with the European Broadcasting Union to continue showing all International Biathlon Union events across its platforms in the UK and Ireland