Finance & Law

Canal Plus is set to discover next month whether its appeal is successful against a court ruling concerning its sublicensing contract with fellow French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports for coverage…

Sports data marketing agency Two Circles has acquired LiveWire Sport, the digital sports content company whose clients include the Premier League, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, World Rugby…

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has reported reaching just over four million paying subscribers to its Viaplay streaming service after adding 397,000 new customers in the fourth quarter of last year…

RDA has been awarded a net sum of €205,662 (£174,000/$235,000) following a legal dispute with European Professional Club Rugby over the UK-based media rights agency’s use of a ‘force majeure’ clause t…

Sportening, a new social app built for sports fans, has officially launched out of beta today (Tuesday) after raising £5.3m (€6.3m/$7.2m

Brazil’s LiveMode agency and 1190 Sports, the international broadcast rights-holder to Brazil’s top two football leagues, have combined to propose taking over commercial management of the leagues with a m…

Spanish football's LaLiga has made the latest move in its long-running fight against piracy by joining forces with CEDRO, the Spanish literary association of authors and editors in the publishing sector,…

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has reported a 3-per-cent decrease in year-on-year revenues for the last three months of 2021, with the number of subscribers to its Kayo Sports streaming service…

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (European Leagues) has criticised the EU Parliament, saying that its recent plenary vote on the Digital Services Act (DSA) did not sufficiently…

Media group Discovery is now in exclusive talks to form a sports joint venture with BT with the proposed takeover of the UK telco’s sports arm by DAZN Group having collapsed.

Golf’s Asian Tour is planning to exercise an option to restructure its 12-year joint venture with IMG and acquire the agency’s stake in Asian Tour Media, the tour’s host broadcast and media sales unit. T

Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings Inc, two of the biggest Spanish-language content producers and sports rightsholders in the Americas, have completed their blockbuster $4.8bn (€4.27bn) merger deal to create a new company known as TelevisaUnivision.

The French Government has launched a consultation process with a view to updating the list of major sporting and cultural events protected for access by free-to-air television

Christian Seifert, the former chief executive of the German Football League (DFL), has formed a joint venture with Axel Springer, the media group and publishing house, to create a new German streaming…

Media executives James Murdoch and Uday Shankar are in talks to buy a 39-per-cent stake in Indian broadcaster Viacom18, in a deal that would value the company at $4bn (€3.6bn), according to media reports.

Sky, the Comcast-owned European pay-television broadcaster, saw its direct-to-consumer revenue fall by just under one per cent from $4.08bn (€3.66bn) to $4.0