Tennis

Austrian commercial broadcaster ServusTV has acquired rights for the Australian Open tennis Grand Slam. The deal will run for three years, from 2019 to 2021

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has reached an agreement with the All England Lawn Tennis Club to extend its coverage of Wimbledon until 2022

Harold Mitchell has resigned from his role as chairman of Free TV Australia amid a court case filed against him by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) relating to the awarding of…

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has today (Monday) issued civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against former Tennis Australia directors, Harold Mitchell and…

Sports broadcaster Eurosport has today confirmed it has agreed a five-year deal to show ATP tennis events in France, from 2019 to 2023. The deal was first reported earlier this month

Sports broadcaster Eurosport is set to become the home of nearly all top men’s tennis rights in France, according to newspaper L’Équipe. Eu
USA

US basic-tier broadcaster Tennis Channel will bolster its tennis portfolio when it takes over WTA rights from pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports in 2019

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports has picked up rights in Belgium, Portugal and Luxembourg to this weekend’s Laver Cup tennis tournament.

Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI has formed a joint venture with media company Super Sports Media entitled Beijing Xin'ai Sport Media Technology, with the platform attracting its first wave of…

Internet company Amazon’s Prime Video service has confirmed a deal to stream live coverage of Laver Cup tennis matches in more than 200 territories worldwide.
USA

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has suffered a fresh blow in its ongoing carriage battle in the US after the Federal Communications Commission dismissed a complaint it had filed against media company…

Pay-television platform Sky Italia and Perform Group’s OTT service DAZN will probably both be happy with the outcome of an intense period of rights negotiations in Italy.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has extended its deal for rights to the Wimbledon tennis grand slam, while it has also secured an agreement for the Bundesliga, the top division of German football

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media has rubbished claims it is complicit in the operation of pirate service BeoutQ as a “malicious lie”.

The top sanctioning and governing bodies in tennis have joined forces to “publicly condemn and call for the immediate closure” of BeoutQ, a pirate service based in Saudi Arabia.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organising body of Wimbledon, has renewed deals for the grand slam tournament with broadcast partners in France, Spain, Japan and the Middle East and North Africa.

Nine has today (Monday) reached an agreement to commence its coverage of the Australian Open a year early, with the deal coming a week after it said it had exited talks with the rights-holder of the tennis grand slam, fellow commercial broadcaster Seven.

USA

US-based mixed gender team league World TeamTennis has launched a new OTT platform that will provide live streaming of every match for the first time in its 43-season history.