Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey

ESPN's streaming service ESPN+ is expanding its ice hockey coverage by securing a deal to broadcast more than 130 Kontinental Hockey League games this season, including all playoff and Gagarin Cup championship…
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German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has agreed a four-season rights deal to become the new home in Germany and other European countries for North American ice hockey league the NHL
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Host Broadcast & Production

Automated sports video and analytics company Pixellot has agreed a broadcast production deal with the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation (MJSZ)
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Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has signed a five-year exclusive media rights agreement in Poland with the National Hockey League to broadcast up to 1,400 live games every season on subscription OTT…
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UK pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has secured exclusive media rights to broadcast the British Elite Ice Hockey League for the next three years, from 2021-22 to 2023-24
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Media

Pay-per-view and subscription-based sports streaming service Fanseat has acquired rights in France to the Champions Hockey League
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Governance

Germany’s Franz Reindl, one of five candidates vying to succeed René Fasel as the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, has targeted higher commercial revenues from the sport’s lower-tier and …
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The National Hockey League has taken up its option to sell its 10-per-cent shareholding in Disney Streaming Services, the interactive media and internet company formerly known as BAMTech Media, to The…
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NBCUniversal has announced it will stream the opening two games of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final, which are being televised on cable channel NBCSN, on subscription streaming service Peacock Premium
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The National Hockey League and interactive audio chat app Clubhouse have struck a content partnership ahead of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final, which kick off on June 28.
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Sportway, the automated production and live streaming firm, has added the Czech Ice Hockey Association as its latest client in the first step of its international expansion outside of the Nordic markets
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Commercial broadcasting group ProSiebenSat.1 has retained domestic free-to-air rights to Austria’s top-tier ICE Hockey League.
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NBC Sports has added subscription service Peacock Premium as a streaming option for all the remaining National Hockey League Stanley Cup semifinal games.
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Sportway, the Stockholm-based automated production and live streaming firm, has reached an agreement with the Danish Ice Hockey Union (DIU) to install artificial intelligence camera production infrastructure…
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The value of Swiss top-tier ice hockey league rights will fall by about 20 per cent following UPC’s new deal starting in 2022-23, however a more drastic drop was avoided by the league’s offer of increased pay-television exclusivity.
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Turner Sports has prevailed in a high-stakes push to land hockey icon Wayne Gretzky as a lead analyst for its forthcoming National Hockey League coverage, according to industry sources and multiple reports,…
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Telecoms operator UPC has renewed domestic broadcast rights to Switzerland’s top-tier ice hockey league for a further five years.
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Pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights to show ice hockey's IIHF World Championship for the first time in Portugal