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SportBusiness Media 23:19
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FOOTBALL: Digiturk and LaLiga end deal in Turkey amid currency crisis
FOOTBALL: Timing will be critical to Serie A domestic rights tender
Plan B in talks to sublicense Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Thailand
The Plan B Media agency is in talks with multiple broadcasters in Thailand to sublicense the Tokyo 2020 Olympics rights, which it acquired from the Japan-based Dentsu agency in a surprise move this summer.
SportBusiness Media 23:18
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FOOTBALL: UK, France may drive global Champions League revenue downturn
FOOTBALL: Bundesliga agrees big fee rise in US with ESPN, but takes exposure gamble
Paul Rehrig, general manager, Eurosport Digital
Paul Rehrig, general manager, Eurosport Digital, talks about Discovery’s deal with Twitter for coverage of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Discovery’s Tokyo 2020 deal with Twitter sets stage for more clips, highlights partnerships
The deal struck this week between US media group Discovery and social media platform Twitter for coverage of the 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo is expected to be the first of many such clip and highlights deals, as Discovery looks for additional ways to monetise its substantial investment in the rights in Europe.
SportBusiness Media 23:17
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FOOTBALL: Uefa set to agree record deal with Deutsche Telekom for Euro 2024
FOOTBALL: LaLiga shifts to fee plus revenue share in Premier Sports UK, Ireland deals
SportBusiness Media 23:16
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BASKETBALL: Euroleague secures robust fee rise in Turkey amid booming basketball interest
AMERICAN FOOTBALL: NFL eyes further brand boost with ProSiebenSat
SportBusiness Media 23:15
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FOOTBALL: BBC pays blockbuster fee for Women’s Euro 2021 UK rights as market surges
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SportBusiness Media 23:14
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TENNIS: Amazon pays premium in French Open domestic rights play
BASKETBALL: China’s Tencent sees off Youku to keep NBA digital rights in record deal
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Ewell Zhao, General Manager, Tencent Sports
Ewell Zhao talks about Tencent’s rights renewal with the NBA, its method for valuing sports media rights and the future of the Chinese sports video streaming industry.
SportBusiness Media 23:13
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FOOTBALL: Weak pound post-Brexit vote boosts total Premier League rights income
MULTI-SPORT: Ambitious JTBC shakes Korean FTA broadcasters, delivers strong Olympics fee for IOC
Ambitious JTBC shakes Korean FTA broadcasters, delivers strong Olympics fee for IOC
South Korean pay-television broadcaster JTBC’s recent acquisition of Olympics Games rights has jolted the country’s sluggish sports media rights market and delivered an unexpectedly strong fee increase for the International Olympic Committee.
TikTok’s growth pushes platform into key engagement role for sports properties
As TikTok has grown into one of the world's most popular social-media apps during the past year, the short-form video-sharing platform has become an important tool for sports rights-holders to expand and engage their fanbases.
SportBusiness Media 23:12
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TENNIS: Perform makes last-ditch attempt to outbid IMG for ATP Tour betting, data rights
TENNIS: French Open tender gambit unlikely to boost FFT revenues
SportBusiness Media 23:11
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MULTI-SPORT: Facebook sees non-exclusive rights as gateway to digital audience growth
FOOTBALL: Canal EPL sublicence deal in France linked to Altice carriage agreement
Peter Hutton, Facebook’s global director of live sports partnerships and programming
Peter Hutton talks about Facebook Watch's recent performance, partnership agreements, and the ‘experimental’ purpose of its traditional rights deals.
Facebook sees non-exclusive rights as gateway to digital audience growth
Social media giant Facebook’s challenges around its Copa Libertadores coverage in Latin America have convinced it that non-exclusive rights models form “one of the best ways” of breaking into markets where entrenched viewing habits restrict the potential for exclusive rights to grow engagement with the platform.
SportBusiness Media 23:10
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FOOTBALL: Star poised for Premier League discount in uncompetitive India
FOOTBALL: English FA spurns higher pay-TV revenue for free-to-air Cup reach
Rights-holders fear regulatory squeeze on SuperSport owner will hit incomes
South African pay-television operator Multichoice is facing the biggest challenge in its 26-year history in the form of a two-pronged regulatory attack on its dominant position in the country’s sports-rights market.
SportBusiness Media 23:9
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TENNIS: Amazon seeks UK tennis dominance with WTA rights play
FOOTBALL: IMG hopes of emerging unscathed from Serie A antitrust probe hang in the balance
Government pressure drives France Télévisions’s Olympics sublicensing deal
The French government strongly encouraged public-service broadcaster France Télévisions to reach an Olympics sublicensing deal with US media group Discovery for the 2022 to 2024 cycle to ensure the widest access to the Paris 2024 games, SportBusiness Media understands.
Olympics value down in India after pay-TV consolidation
The International Olympic Committee has seen its Olympic Games rights fee fall in the Indian subcontinent, driven by the long consolidation in the country’s pay-television market.
Olympics bounce in Singapore as Dentsu and Mediacorp find common ground
The Dentsu agency got off to a good start in its 2020 and 2022 Olympics rights sales in Southeast Asia, striking a deal in Singapore that delivered a fee increase and avoided a repeat of the fraught negotiations for Rio 2016.
Legal action against beoutQ by Fifa and other major sports rights-holders ‘imminent’
A consortium of major rights-holders is about to launch legal action in the Saudi courts against the beoutQ pirate broadcast operation, which the rights-holders believe is backed by the Saudi government., SportBusiness Media understands.