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The Infront agency is engaged in broadcast rights sales processes in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden for leading athletics, handball, ice hockey and ice skating content

Jacopo Volpi has been appointed as sports director of Italian public broadcaster Rai, replacing Alessandra De Stefano who stepped down from the role in March

Streaming platform Dyn Media has announced a sublicensing agreement with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF ahead of its launch later this year

Three US executives at the centre of Meta’s sports-related endeavours, Rob Shaw, Kevin Cote and Dev Sethi, have left the technology company as part of the latest round of layoffs at the firm.

DAZN has teamed up with AI-based video tracking and analytics company Videocites in a move to step up its battle against intellectual property theft and illegal social media streams of its live sports…

Viaplay Group, the international subscription streaming service and broadcaster, has promoted Cecilia Gave to executive vice-president and head of sports

BeIN Sports channels in Australia will no longer be available to customers of Foxtel, the pay-television operator, from July 1

Dyn Media has agreed a carriage deal with telco Deutsche Telekom ahead of the impending launch in the German-speaking region of streaming service Dyn

US media group E.W. Scripps has promoted Quinn Pacini to the position of vice-president of broadcast operations for its new sports division

Kenichiro Yoshida, chief executive of Sony Corporation, expects the long-awaited merger between India’s Sony Pictures Networks and Zee Entertainment Enterprises to close by September this year.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is reportedly planning to launch a new streaming service as a standalone subscription-based live sports package

The first four months of 2023 brought record TV viewership for women’s sport in the UK, according to the Women’s Sport Trust. Citing data from Futures Sport & Entertainment, the Trust said 20.6 m

TelevisaUnivision has announced a slew of Spanish language media rights in the United States, including the next Super Bowl, Copa América 2024 and top Uefa club competitions.

Global sports streaming service and media company DAZN has made its first major investment in India by striking a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Telangana, amid recent efforts…

Experienced industry executive Seamus O’Brien has made a dramatic comeback to the sharp end of the sports business sector after being appointed as president of Sportfive’s Asia-Pacific business.

Pete Distad, senior director of video and sports at Apple, is reportedly stepping down from his role after almost a decade with the technology company