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Netflix ‘explores’ investments in sports leagues and streaming rights
Streaming giant Netflix is taking a more serious look at investing in sport and considering taking stakes in competitions as well as acquiring streaming rights, The Wall Street Journal has reported
Viaplay streaming app to be pre-installed on Hisense smart TVs
Subscription streaming operator Viaplay Group has widened the reach of its Viaplay service by agreeing a deal with Vidaa, the smart television platform of Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer Hisense
DFL head of digital innovations Mücke among Dyn Media recruits
Dyn Media, the German streaming platform to be launched by former German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert and publishing house Axel Springer, has completed its management team with…
MLB scores big audience win over NFL for World Series Game 5
Baseball easily prevails in head-to-head programming battle
Twitter descends into chaos amid layoffs, hotly debated Blue plan
In the days immediately following Musk's takeover, he cuts roughly half of the staff, and revamps standards for verified accounts
TF1 channels return for Canal Plus customers ahead of World Cup
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has today (Monday) resumed the carriage of free-to-air channels operated by commercial broadcaster TF1 after the two parties announced an agreement to end their…
Polish regulator probes Viaplay’s streaming glitches
Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has announced that it has initiated an investigation into the technical glitches suffered by streaming platform Viaplay since it entered t…
FuboTV sees record subscriptions, exceeds revenue forecast
Sports-first live television streaming platform FuboTV announced record high 1
Warner Bros. Discovery accelerates combined streaming service
Merged offering of HBO Max, discovery+ to debut next spring in US
ITV appoints Botchway to lend ‘fresh approach’ to sports coverage
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has appointed Richard Botchway to the new role of assistant commissioner in the sport team
Local broadcast of NFL Eagles shifts due to World Series
Change in baseball event schedule creates unusual programming confluence
Snap adds WSL content to extended Sky deal
UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has renewed its content deal with Snap, parent company of social media platform Snapchat
Amazon develops US daily sports-talk show slate
Amazon Prime Video is developing a daily slate of sports-talk shows in the United States that will further the online retail and streaming giant's presence in content, with the programming airing from…
Sport ‘resilient’ to economic downturn but ‘not crisis proof’
Sport continues to show strong resilience to negative macro-economic factors but is not entirely “crisis proof”, according to leading industry stakeholders.
Comcast considers sale of Sky Deutschland
Media giant Comcast is thought to be considering a sale of the German arm of Sky, as the European pay-television broadcaster’s total customer relationships increased by 320,000 to 23 million in the third q…
DAZN makes further redundancies at London headquarters
Global sports streaming service and media company DAZN Group is undertaking another round of redundancies at its London headquarters as it steps up recruitment across other operations under an increasingly…
Former BT Sport head Green joins Sport Buff board
Experienced sports rights and broadcast executive Simon Green has become a shareholder and joined the board of gamification and on-screen engagement company Sport Buff
BeIN signs landmark agreement with Saudi agency
BeIN Media Group, the Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster, has signed a strategic agreement with Saudi Media Co., an advertising sales agency with close connections to the Saudi government