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The World Trade Organization has ruled that the Saudi Arabian government operates the beoutQ pirate television service, it has been reported
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ESPN is partnering with US exercise equipment and media company Peloton to stage a virtual indoor cycling race featuring athletes and celebrities from across the sports landscape to benefit Covid-19 relief …
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The Lagardère Sports and Entertainment agency has released details of its new organisational structure following its takeover by H.I.G.
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The merger of Fox Sports and ESPN’s Brazilian arms further consolidates the country’s sports broadcast market and could make it even more difficult for international rights-holders to extract value from an already tricky territory.
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Len Blavatnik, the Ukraine-born billionaire who owns DAZN, is looking for investors to help shore up the sports streaming service's finances during the Covid-19 downturn, according to the Financial Times
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Inside this issue: FOOTBALL: Bundesliga starts Asian sales with Sky PerfecTV deal in Japan AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Amazon’s NFL renewal unlikely to herald major push in next cycle ES
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Steffi Buchli is to leave MySports, the pay-television broadcaster owned by Swiss telecoms operator UPC, to become sports editor-in-chief at media company Blick Group
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Fubo Sports Network has launched on Pluto TV, the free, ad-supported streaming service owned by US media group ViacomCBS
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The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group will launch its Viaplay services in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the first quarter of 2021, and has already started building its sports portfolio by acquiring…
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French telco Altice has announced plans to gradually exit the pay-television sports rights market as part of a raft of measures designed to protect its audio-visual business
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RMC Sport News, the sports news channel of the French division of telco Altice, is to close at the start of next month, it has been reported
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Swedish telco Telia has completed a licensing deal with international media group Discovery for standalone over-the-top streaming rights in Sweden and Finland, part of the conditions imposed upon it for…
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Pent-up appetite for sports viewing is expected to be released in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, giving rights-holders an opportunity to attract significant new audiences.
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UK government culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said he hopes the Premier League can resume by mid-June. The teams have agreed to start non-contact training in small groups today
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Gary Rathbone, the African sports media consultant and former head of sport at pay-television broadcaster StarTimes, is to take up a new role as head of sport at South African public broadcaster the SABC,…
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US technology giant Apple has reached an agreement to acquire virtual reality technology company NextVR
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Alexis Vapaille, broadcasting rights manager at the International Paralympic Committee, has left his role after working for eight years at the Bonn-based world governing body
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NBC Sports has followed in the footsteps of ESPN and Fox Sports by asking its top on-air talent to take temporary pay cuts as a result of the sports competition shutdown amid the global Covid-19 pandemic