Motorsport

Baseball

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motorsport

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

Motorsport

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

Motorsport

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

Football

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

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

Motorsport

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

Motorsport

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.

Motorsport

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has enhanced its motorsport portfolio by agreeing a six-season rights partnership with the International Motor Sports Association.

Motorsport

German touring car racing series DTM has secured full live coverage in Austria for the first time through a deal with public-service broadcaster ORF.

Motorsport

Formula One has told TV Sports Markets its OTT subscription platform, F1 TV, will not have short-term subscriber targets as it looks to build a durable digital presence.

Motorsport

Saran Media has renewed its Formula One rights in Turkey for the next three years, from 2018 to 2020, in a deal thought to have remained roughly flat on the previous cycle

Motorsport

Interview with Frank Arthofer, Formula One’s director of digital, licensing and new business, about the forthcoming launch of F1 TV Pro and F1 TV Access, the championship’s own OTT services.