Motorsport

Motorsport
Global

Another content partnership in the UK will allow commercial broadcaster Channel 4 to show live coverage of the Formula One British Grand Prix in 2019, along with highlights from all races that season.
Motorsport

Beleaguered French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has reacted to the shrinking of its sports portfolio by acquiring MotoGP rights in the country
Motorsport
USA

IndyCar is delaying the sale of its international media rights until its teams and drivers for 2019 are confirmed, as ex-Formula One driver Fernando Alonso and Formula One manufacturer McLaren are strongly…
Motorsport
Portugal

Eleven Sports’ acquisition of Formula One in Portugal will bring diversity to its offering in the country but will have little impact on market leader Sport TV’s business.
Handball
Nordics

Swedish media company Modern Times Group and its subsidiary Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) have jointly agreed a five-year revolving credit facility with a group of six Nordic banks
Baseball
Italy

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has secured rights in Italy to the Pro14 cross-border rugby union league as it unveiled its full line-up for its launch in the country
Football
Italy

Pay-television platform Sky Italia and Perform Group’s OTT service DAZN will probably both be happy with the outcome of an intense period of rights negotiations in Italy.
Motorsport
Italy

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has struck a three-season extension to its rights deal for the MotoGP motorcycling championship
Motorsport
Europe

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights for the World Rallycross Championship (World RX) motorsport series
Motorsport
Finland

MTV3 will pay about 20 per cent more for Formula One media rights in Finland in a renewed deal, TV Sports Markets understands.
Motorsport
Global

The World Rallycross Championship (WorldRX) motorsport series has entered into a partnership with online platform WTF1.

Motorsport
United Kingdom

UK free-to-air digital channel FreeSports has acquired rights for the DTM German Touring Car Championship.

Motorsport
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired rights to the World Rallycross Championship (World RX) motor-racing series.

Motorsport
China

Chinese digital platform Sohu has acquired rights for the World Rallycross Championship.

Football
Germany

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to this summer’s Fifa World Cup national team football tournament and the Formula 2 Championship motor-racing series.

Motorsport
Germany

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed a rights deal for the FIA World Endurance Championship motor-racing series.

Motorsport
Germany

Motorsport Network, the digital media platform, has agreed a partnership with the DTM German Touring Car Championship.

Motorsport
France

French digital-terrestrial sports channel L'Équipe has extended rights deals for motorsport’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) motorcycle-racing series.