Industry Moves

Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Iris Sport Media, the company set up by Ioris Francini and his former IMG colleagues Floris Weisz and Luca Baldanza, has officially launched in the market, positioning itself as a forward-looking boutique…
Cricket
Finance & Law

Sportfive’s appointment of former World Sport Group executive Venu Nair has signalled the ambition of the agency to win new business in cricket as it builds up its operations in Asia.
Golf
Industry Moves

TMRW Sports, the company founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and sports executive Mike McCarley which is behind TGL, has announced a raft of new hires as it continues to gear up to the January launch of the tech-focused golf league.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Veronica Diquattro, one of the leading executives at DAZN Group, has exited the sports industry to join Omio, an online travel comparison and booking website
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Nick von Doetinchem has left his role heading up OneFootball’s media rights acquisitions to become Legends’ managing director of Central Europe.
Padel
Industry Moves

Padel’s new Hexagon Cup event has recruited the Professional Triathletes Organisation’s chief marketing officer Tim Godfrey as strategic adviser.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

CBS Sports have announced that chairman Sean McManus will retire in April 2024 and be replaced by David Berson after a 27-year run leading the division
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Gernot Bauer, head of sport at Warner Bros. Discovery Germany, is leaving the media giant to join commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

NBCUniversal has ended its search for a new president of its NBC Sports operation, promoting veteran executive Rick Cordella rather than choosing an outside hire
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

DAZN Group is undertaking another swathe of redundancies primarily affecting staff in the UK and Amsterdam in the latest cuts to operating costs, SportBusiness understands
Basketball
Industry Moves

Skweek, the basketball streaming platform owned by Monaco-based Fedcom Media, has made the UK its second market after launching in France last year on the back of various rights acquisitions
Football
Industry Moves

Sports executive Andrea Ekblad has joined the Football Association as ‘Broadcast Lead - Women’s Professional Game’, in a role that covers the top two tiers of women’s football in England, the Women’s Super Lea…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Barbara Slater will retire from her role as director of BBC Sport next spring, the UK public-service broadcaster has announced today (Wednesday).
Multiple Sports
Host Broadcast & Production

IMG has made two high-profile production hires with the appointment of Sally Brown and Steve Rudge to the newly created roles of vice-presidents and co-heads of the agency’s multi-sport content.H
Football
Industry Moves

The German Football League (DFL) has announced the promotions of Marcus Beisiegel and Vito Esposito, helping to fill the positions left vacant by the internal appointments of Steffen Merkel and Marc Lenz…
Motorsport
Industry Moves

Oliver Ciesla, a veteran of the sports and media industry, has left his role as chief executive of Motorsport Network Media (MSNM) following the takeover by private equity investment firm GMF Capital
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Marek Szkolnikowski is to leave his role as Head of Sports at Polish public-service broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) after more than seven years in the position
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Former Disney executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs are returning to work with the US media giant on the future strategy of ESPN