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Ireland

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has teamed up with RTÉ to launch a new streaming platform to deliver coverage of the League of Ireland Premier Division at what the Irish public-service broadcaster …
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France

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly agreed a carriage deal with social media giant Facebook for the former’s new Téléfoot channel.
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Paraguay

Paraguayan-based pay-television broadcaster Tigo Sports has signed a new three-year rights agreement with the Paraguayan Football Federation (APF)
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France

The final of this season’s Uefa Champions League in Lisbon will receive significant free-to-air coverage in France after the commercial broadcaster TF1 finalised a sublicensing deal with the Altice-owned p…
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Brazil

Brazilian media group Globo is engaged in a dispute with US-headquartered pay-television broadcaster Turner ahead of the new Serie A season as issues around the controversial ‘PM 984’ media-rights dec…
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Canada

OneSoccer, Mediapro’s over-the-top sports streaming service in Canada, has extended its media rights agreement with LigaMX for two further seasons, through the 2021-22 season.
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Scandinavia

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has said that it is not expecting any more substantial rights fee compensation following the disruption to the sporting calendar caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
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USA

United States-based soccer promoters Relevent Sports Group has announced plans to develop the Women’s International Champions Cup, with additional content platforms and an expanded tournament.
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Netherlands

There will be a new kick-off time in the Dutch Eredivisie next season at the request of the league domestic rights-holder, pay television broadcaster Fox Sports
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China

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has switched its coverage of English Premier League football matches to its less popular CCTV5 Plus sports channel in a move analysts are linking to diplomatic tensions between…
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Uruguay

The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) and the Tenfield agency have reached a deal which will see every match from the country’s top flight broadcast for the remainder of the season.
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Russia

LaLiga will more than double the value of its rights in Russia in its imminent renewal with the Telesport agency for the 2021-26 cycle.
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Global

Twitch, the Amazon-owned online streaming platform primarily associated with esports, has made its most significant move yet in ‘traditional’ sports with the creation of a standalone sports vertical on …
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Australia

Greg O’Rourke, chief executive of Australia’s A-League, has admitted that audience ratings on pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports since the season’s resumption have been “disappointing”, with clubs set…
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Poland

Poland’s Ekstraklasa will pay a record high of PLN225m ($58.1m/€50.7m) to its clubs from the league’s centralised media and sponsorship rights in 2019-20. T
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Colombia

Dimayor, the organisation which operates Colombian club football, is set to discuss two proposals to reform the means by which broadcast and sponsorship rights revenues are divided between its teams
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Asia

Football Marketing Asia, the Asian Football Confederation’s Hong Kong-based exclusive commercial rights agency, has recruited Andrew Guy of Talisman Sport & Media, the London-based independent media-rights c…
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Russia

Russian agency Telesport is close to finalising a renewal of its broadcast rights to Spain’s LaLiga in a five-season deal from 2021-22 onwards, SportBusiness understands.