Media

Dyn Media, the German streaming platform founded by former German Football League chief executive Christian Seifert and publishing house Axel Springer, has struck a sublicensing agreement with commercial broadcaster Sport1 for the media rights to domestic women’s volleyball properties.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV claimed its biggest audience this year, and best Friday viewing figures in more than a decade, for its coverage of England’s 2022 Fifa World Cup group game against United S…

TOD, the official streaming platform of the Fifa World Cup in Saudi Arabia, and all the Middle East and North Africa, has been blocked in Saudi Arabia from the beginning of this year’s tournament in Q…

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Luigi De Siervo, chief executive officer of Lega Serie A, governing body of the top division of Italian club football, has urged the Italian government to allow the extension of the domestic broadcast…

The International Skating Union (ISU) has agreed a deal to screen its junior events on the live and on-demand video streaming platform Recast

The English Premier League and Malaysian pay-television operator Astro have hailed a “landmark ruling” after an eatery in Kuala Lumpur was found to have breached copyright laws by showing pirated sports broadcasts.

Indonesian media conglomerate MNC Group has acquired rights to the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Championship in its home country, along with the Philippines and Timor-Leste

Åsa Edlund Jönsson, head of sport at Swedish public broadcaster SVT, has resigned from her position to become general secretary of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK).

Fifa made the decision to move APAC media rights sales in-house earlier this year and is thought to have notified its two current sales agencies in the region, Infront and Dentsu, several months ago.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal for the domestic Championnat de France des Rallyes motorsport series

Football fans in Lebanon have been left without free-to-air television coverage of the ongoing Fifa World Cup due to a state of political paralysis in the Middle Eastern country

Brazilian media group Globo has finalised the details of its 2026 Fifa World Cup rights package as part of its renegotiations with football’s world governing body over its deal for this year’s tournament in …

LaLiga’s OTT platform, LaLigaSportsTV, has launched a new linear channel for LaLiga TV Bar, the service for public establishments featuring coverage from the top two Spanish leagues.

German newspaper Bild has launched a new OTT streaming channel dedicated to sport. Bild Sport TV will initially launch through the Sportworld app provided by electronics manufacturer Samsung

DAZN Group has announced distribution agreements with Hisense and Foxxum OS.  Hisense TV sets in Germany, Spain and Italy will now have the DAZN app pre-installed.

An average audience of 9.2 million people tuned into German broadcaster ARD’s coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup match between Germany and Japan amid new protests against Fifa’s ban on ‘OneLove’ armbands.