Media

Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Iris Sport Media has announced its expansion into Asia with the senior appointment of Spring Media’s Tricia Chuah, while the agency has detailed a raft of other hires.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Endeavor Group is to sell three of its major businesses, including the IMG agency, to TKO, the entity it spun off last year to house WWE and UFC and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Football
Media

Spring Media, the Scandinavian agency on the verge of being bought by Two Circles, has strengthened its portfolio with an international rights distribution deal for the Danish Superliga.
Baseball
Media

DAZN has announced a long-term deal with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) to become the global distributor of its content for the next eight years
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

New World TV (NWTV) has secured a €245m ($264m) loan agreement with Afreximbank, the African Export–Import Bank, in a move that the Togo-based broadcaster believes will facilitate smoother payments to rights-holders.
Basketball
Media

The Women’s National Basketball Association achieved record peak and average ratings with its five-game Finals this month.
Football
Finance & Law

The Confederation of African Football's decision to tear up its global commercial agreement with the Lagardère Sports agency in 2019 cost the organisation $50m (€46.4m), the governing body has revealed.
Multiple Sports
Media

Content Arena, the online platform for sports media rights trading, has created a marketplace for rights-holders and bookmakers to sign betting video rights deals directly.
Football
Media

TV4 Media, the Telia-owned broadcasting company, is to become the exclusive rights-holder of Sweden's top two football divisions from 2026, ousting Warner Bros. Discovery in the process.
Multiple Sports
Media

Amid a turbulent time for sports television bundles in the United States, streaming platform Fubo announced today (Tuesday) that it is launching standalone subscription services
Skiing
Governance

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has won over one of its strongest critics in its battle to centralise media rights, striking an agreement with Svenska Skidförbundet (SFF), the Swedish …
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Cost-cutting measures and price increases are paying dividends at Viaplay, after the Nordic media group recorded a small operating profit for the third quarter of 2024
Football
Media

Infront Bettor is selling betting video rights to the top two tiers of Dutch football after striking a deal for the Eerste Divisie to add to its acquisition of rights to the top-tier Eredivisie
Rugby Union
Media

The French Rugby Federation handed rights to the Elite 1 league to Canal+ this season while also collaborating on its match scheduling.
Football
Media

Sports media and technology company Fz Sports, the owner of Fanatiz and 1190 Sports, has agreed a rights distribution and OTT platform deal with the newly-formed CosmoBlue Media.
Football
Media

India is the first market in which the German Football League (DFL) has gone direct to consumer with its Bundesliga Pass live on the OneFootball app in the country, SportBusiness has learned.
Football
Media

IMG has retained the Eredivisie international broadcast rights, one of its longest-held football properties, but will be replaced by rival Infront as distributor of streaming rights to the global betting market, SportBusiness understands.
Basketball
Media

Sport 24, the in-flight and in-ship service owned by the IMG agency, has renewed NBA rights ahead of tomorrow's (Tuesday's) new season tip-off.