Covid-19

Cricket Australia has had talks with American private equity firm Silver Lake about a potential investment, according to local media

Four Korean broadcasters with rights to the country's baseball league are seeking compensation due to disruptions to this season's schedule caused by the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the European football market contracting 13 per cent to overall revenues of €25.2bn ($29.9

US sports broadcaster ESPN has announced plans to take the X Games back to its roots with the summer edition of the action sports series set to be held in three Southern California locations this year,…

Pete Bevacqua, newly promoted to chairman of NBC Sports, said he believes that sports ratings on American television will return to more normal patterns following the impending conclusion of the country’s p…

The Premier League has said a “broadcast solution” will be announced in due course amid multiple reports its controversial pay-per-view model introduced last month will be scrapped.

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has reacted to delays in its next media-rights payment from Mediapro, the agency and production group, by looking to put in place a bank loan so that clubs c…

China’s sports media-rights market is in the throes of a major correction, with the OTT platforms that have driven growth in the last five years seeking to renegotiate a string of deals.

The UK government is urging the English Premier League to ensure all matches are televised during the 2020-21 season so long as fans remain unable to attend

Format changes implemented to the Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) include elements that the organising body is looking to introduce during the next commercial…

Ecuadorian cable television operators CNT TV, Claro TV and TV Cable have ceased broadcasting the Ecuadorian Serie A, the top tier of domestic club football, amid a dispute with the rights-holder, pay-television…

Virgin Media has suspended the supply of its sports channels to fellow Irish telco Eir over a payment dispute, leaving the latter’s customers without access to Uefa Champions League football coverage.

World Wrestling Entertainment, facing increased investor pressure amid falling TV ratings, blamed its ongoing viewership challenges on the lack of in-person audiences for its events

The National Women's Soccer League broke its domestic television ratings record for the second time in a month over the weekend, when the NWSL Challenge Cup final drew an average audience of 653,000 viewers…

Fox Sports has revealed it will utilize virtual fans during its Major League Baseball broadcasts in the widespread absence of spectators at games during the rescheduled season

The Russian Premier League has secured a strong fee from pay-television platform i-Cable for its media rights in Hong Kong.

The Football Association of Thailand has written to the country's clubs to ask whether they want to play the remaining games of the 2020 season, and warned that they face a drop in funding due to sponsorship…

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF will turn to remote production where possible for its coverage from next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo as it continues its cost cutting plan in the wake of the C…