Multi-sport

Czech pay-television platform Telly has extended its carriage deal with international media group Discovery for the latter’s portfolio of channels, including Eurosport.

Laurent Prud’homme, previously head of the French arm of Eurosport and senior vice-president of rights acquisitions and syndication at the pan-European broadcaster, has been named as the deputy chief e…

Eurovision Sport has kicked off a recruitment process for a director of acquisitions in a newly-created position at the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union

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Panam Sports, organiser of the Pan American Games, is taking legal action against Record after the Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster cancelled a rights agreement for the 2023 edition of the multi-sport…

A long-running carriage dispute between Irish telecoms operators Virgin Media and Eir has been fast-tracked to the Commercial Court in Dublin

Gravity Media, the broadcast production and outside broadcast services company, is looking to expand its activities outside the UK and has appointed sports media rights executive Kay Dammholz as an advisor…

DAZN, the OTT streaming broadcaster, has signed its latest commercial premises agreements with a launch in Japan that allows bars, cafes, restaurants and hotels to show sports content

Sky and Amazon have struck a carriage deal in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Austria, making Amazon’s premium football content available to certain Sky subscribers for the first time.

The Irish government has launched a review of the list of sporting events currently reserved for free-to-air television coverage in the country.

The direct-to-consumer ESPN+ will be gaining a set of sizable bumps in exposure and functionality with the integration of the streaming service into sister offering Hulu, while also being offered directly…

The Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has set a March 2021 deadline for Disney’s long-anticipated divestment of its Fox Sports business in the country.

Over-the-top streaming platform DAZN has stepped up its association with telecoms  company KDDI in Japan by introducing a 5G offering.

Adding Eurosport’s content to a bundle of Discovery channels is the key to helping Discovery Communications build market share for its new subscription streaming platform discovery+ in an increasingly competitive OTT landscape, according to Andrew Georgiou, the president of Eurosport’s global sports rights and sports marketing solutions.

Peacock is continuing its sharp growth trajectory as NBCUniversal chief executive Jeff Shell said the new streaming service has now surpassed 26 million sign-ups

Chinese streaming platform China Mobile Migu will carry live and on-demand coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2022 Fifa World Cup, under a deal with state broadcaster…