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Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has raised its profit and revenue guidance for 2021 after what it described as a “positive start” to the financial year, higher than expected growth in its dir…
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Simon Thomas, the experienced sports marketing executive who recently exited his position as chief commercial officer at Fifa, football’s world governing body, has become a senior advisor to ColganBauer, t…
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Eleven, the Aser Ventures-owned international sports broadcaster, is to pivot its investment in live streaming company MyCujoo on a ‘freemium’ monetisation model.
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The digital archive of the International World Games Association, the governing body for the World Games, is to be housed by the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel.
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US sports-focused streaming service and channel aggregator fuboTV has announced the strongest quarter in company history during the 2020 fiscal third quarter thanks in large part to the return of live…
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Polish pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Polska has cancelled its initial public offering just seven days after its launch
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German sports broadcaster Sport1 has extended its distribution deal with satellite operator SES Astra
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ESPN has unveiled an executive restructuring following the planned departure of executive vice president of content Connor Schell and recent reorganization by corporate parent The Walt Disney Co.
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UK sports media company River Media Partners (RMP) has hired Alex Carr, formerly strategic partnerships manager in the motorsport division of the IMG agency, as its head of global partnerships
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Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group will launch its OTT streaming service Viaplay into 10 international markets by the end of 2023, including Poland in 2021 where it has secured rights to the German Bundesliga…
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South Africa’s broadcast regulator ICASA has continued to apply pressure on the country’s dominant pay-television broadcaster SuperSport, releasing an expanded draft list of ‘public interest’ sports events …
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Spanish public broadcaster TVE is not looking to acquire all broadcast rights in the country to next year’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics in a deal with rights-holder Discovery in a bid to save costs, a…
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James Elliott, formerly an executive at mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship and rights agencies including Pitch International and Kentaro, has been recruited by Evolution Media Capital, t…
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The Romanian division of France-based telecoms giant Orange has agreed a €268m ($318.4
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Live streaming company MyCujoo has been acquired by Eleven in a takeover agreement that the Aser Ventures-owned international broadcaster says will lay the foundations for “a new global Eleven service a…
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The Discovery-owned broadcaster Eurosport is to make 59 redundancies at its Paris headquarters as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the media sector continues to take hold
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Saudi Arabia’s confirmation that it will create a rights-acquisition and content platform under its Saudi Sports Company division had long been expected. What took some industry observers by surprise was the country’s apparent scaling back of its ambitions and the ostensibly softer tone used when outlining its acquisitions strategy.
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Pete Bevacqua, newly promoted to chairman of NBC Sports, said he believes that sports ratings on American television will return to more normal patterns following the impending conclusion of the country’s p…