Multi-sport

German media group ProSiebenSat.1 has appointed Max Conze, formerly of British technology group Dyson, as its new chief executive.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has boosted its position in Japan by taking over a rival service operated by telco SoftBank.

Econet Media’s pan-African media company, Kwesé, has acquired a “significant stake” in the African division of online streaming service iflix under a deal it says will drive its go-to-market mobile delivery in each of its territories.

Olaf Schröder will continue as chief executive of Constantin Medien after the German media company agreed a three-year extension to his contract.

US network CBS has said its new OTT sports service, CBS Sports HQ, will launch later this month.

Video-sharing company YouTube has bolstered the sports output of its US cable-free live television service, YouTube TV, through a new partnership with media company Turner.

Danish telco TDC has today (Monday) said it intends to exit a proposed deal to take over multi-territory commercial and pay-television company Modern Times Group’s broadcasting and entertainment division after being approached with a takeover offer for its own business.

UK production company Imagen has enhanced its video management platform by adding live capture and social media publishing capabilities to the service.

Highlight Communications, backed by Lucerne-based Studhalter Investment, has secured a majority stake in German media company Constantin Medien.

US media company Walt Disney has said ESPN Plus, the new OTT service being launched by its sports broadcaster ESPN, will be priced at $4.99 (€4) per month.

US media groups CBS and Viacom have confirmed the resumption of merger talks, with similar efforts having previously been abandoned in December 2016.

Discovery Communications has so far recouped more than 70 per cent of its internal target from sublicensing Olympic Games media rights across Europe, according to TV Sports Markets research.

BeIN Media Group said it was “shocked and appalled” after an Egyptian court imposed a fine of $22m (€17.7m) on the broadcaster’s chief executive, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, for alleged violations of anti-trust rules.

Patrick Delany, chief executive of Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports, has been appointed as the new chief executive of pay-television operator Foxtel, which is soon to merge with his current employer.

Madrid-headquartered International Sports Broadcasting has retained its position as the host broadcaster of the European Games by seeing off competition from two other companies for the contract for next year’s edition of the multi-sport event.

Public-service broadcaster UA:PBC has acquired rights in Ukraine to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games at a considerable uplift on the cost of the 2014 and 2016 Games.