Media

Esports broadcast and content production company Maincast has extended its media rights agreement with esports company ESL Gaming in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States for another four years

Media group Discovery has announced that the European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust clearance to the company’s proposed acquisition of telecoms giant AT&T’s WarnerMedia business.

Crypto.com has joined fellow cryptocurrency platform FTX in buying a Super Bowl commercial next February as part of the industry's expansive marketing push into the North American sports landscape

Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Germany to selected matches from the European Handball Federation’s forthcoming men’s Euro 2022 tournament.

Husain Al-Musallam, president of the International Swimming Federation (Fina), has said that the federation is not promoting the sport as effectively as it should

Slovak public broadcaster RTVS has expanded its sports offering with the addition of its new channel RTVS Sport, which will show hundreds of hours of top European football

Atalanta Media-owned women’s football streaming platform Ata Football has signed a two-year deal to cover Italy’s top-tier women’s Serie A in the US, Canada and Germany. T

Sony Pictures Networks India and Zee Entertainment Enterprises have signed definitive agreements to merge Zee "with and into" Sony, following three months of mutual due diligence

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has named industry heavyweights Terrence Burns, David Hill, Peter Hutton and Michael Payne as members of its working group that will help shape the future…

The Confederation of African Football has appointed Infront France, AMP Visual, Globecast and Mediapro as broadcast services suppliers for its events in 2022 and 2023, while Senegalese public-service broadcaster…

Betting data services company Sportradar has agreed a five-year extension to its international betting data and streaming rights distribution agreement with Germany’s Bundesliga.

Automated sports broadcast production and analytics company Pixellot has expanded into the United Arab Emirates through an agreement with Dubai-based sports broadcast system integrator Cam Plus Sport

Brazilian media group Bandeirantes has acquired broadcast rights to the 2021 Fifa Club World Cup

SVT, Sweden’s public-service broadcaster, has secured rights to International Basketball Federation (Fiba) events and qualifiers until 2025.

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has reached an agreement to extend its sublicensing pact for Olympic Games rights with Discovery, it is claimed

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has said that some Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) proposals for the commercialisation of broadcast rights fo…