Events

Football
Philippines

Media rights for this year's Fifa World Cup have been acquired by Now TV in Hong Kong and Tap DMV in the Philippines, in deals brokered by the Infront agency
Multi-sport
Europe

Spyros Capralos, president of the European Olympic Committees (EOC), is confident that the new European Games broadcast deal with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) consortium of public-service broadcasters…
Multi-sport
Europe

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters has announced that the 2022 European Championships in Munich are set to receive around 500 additional hours of coverage from its…
Basketball
Cyprus

Telecoms company Cablenet has acquired rights in Cyprus to the forthcoming EuroBasket 2022 national team basketball tournament. Cablenet will show all 76 games at EuroBasket 2022 via its sports channels
Football
Germany

Bayern Munich commercial executive Andreas Jung has called on the German Football League (DFL) to stage the German Super Cup abroad in order to increase the league’s international presence and commercial a…
Luge
Austria

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has cancelled the opening round of the 2022-23 Luge World Cup season, citing football’s 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar.
Cricket
Kenya

Cricket Kenya has appointed UAE-based agency Pacific Star Sports (PSS) to aid the commercial development of the sport in the East African country
Multi-sport
Global

The organisers of Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games, which get under way this evening with the opening ceremony, expect to soon surpass the ticket sales total registered at Glasgow 2014 and are also c…
Football
Germany

Uefa Women’s Euro 2022 is continuing to pull in strong audience figures as both German and French broadcasters posted strong ratings for the two countries’ semi-final clash yesterday (Wednesday) evening.
Athletics
Australia

The Infront agency has acquired a minority stake in the Sydney Marathon and will market its commercial rights as it becomes the third candidate to seek an expansion slot among the World Marathon Majors…
Football
Japan

German Bundesliga football club Eintracht Frankfurt will play friendlies against Japanese J.League clubs Urawa Reds and Gamba Osaka during a tour of Japan in November
Cycling
France

Event promoter Amaury Sport Organisation is confident that its investment in the women’s Tour de France will pay off commercially in future years with a sizeable free-to-air audience creating an appealing p…
Baseball
USA

Baseball midseason showcase retains mark as top All-Star Game in US sports
Baseball
USA

Elements of All-Star Game event drop in viewers, but are still historically strong
Tennis
United Kingdom

A peak audience of 3.7 million tuned into watch the BBC’s UK coverage of the first official “Middle Sunday” at this year’s Wimbledon Championships while a further 4.7 milli
Padel
Spain

Premier Padel, the new global padel tour run by the International Padel Federation (FIP) and backed by players body the Professional Padel Association (PPA) and Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), has appointed…
Modern Pentathlon
Global

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has engaged Japanese commercial broadcaster TBS to aid the delivery of a test event for its proposed new fifth discipline, obstacle
Cycling
Global

Road cycling’s RideLondon Classique has been provisionally demoted from the UCI Women’s WorldTour to the second-tier ProSeries after organisers failed to provide the necessary level of live broadcast cov…