Covid-19

Cricket

A number of Sri Lanka’s national team cricketers will return to action next week in the 12-day-long PDC T10 league tournament.
Australian Rules Football

Pay-television operator Foxtel declined to extend its rights deal with Australian rules football league the AFL due to long-running concerns over a clause in the contract concerning free-to-air exposure,…
Football

The Scottish Professional Football League is in the process of finalising a rights fee compensation agreement with BT Sport for matches that the UK pay-television broadcaster was not able to show after…
Football

Belgian telecoms operators Proximus and Telenet are looking at the initiation of arbitration proceedings against the Pro League, the country’s professional football league, over the repayment of a slice o…
Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket has again been forced into extending its global media-rights invitation to tender process, amid reports of concerns from bidders over the status of its scheduled series against India
Football

Football Federation Australia has revealed details of the re-start of the domestic A-League but is still working on a revised broadcast deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports
Multi-sport

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group is to cut over 100 jobs as the disruption and ensuing financial impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take effect
Motorsport

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel is said to be keen to sign a long-term extension to its rights deal for the Supercars Championship by the end of the month, with an agreement that would look to…
Football

The return of Italian football following a break of over three months generated record viewing figures for Italian public broadcaster Rai, which aired the second legs of both Coppa Italia semi-finals over…
Football

Russian sports broadcaster Match TV will make its coverage of the Russian Premier League free-to-air for the remainder of the season
Football

NBC Sports has revealed that its coverage of the Premier League in the coming weeks will include "atmospheric enhanced audio" in order to improve the broadcast experience of games that will have no spectators…
Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired exclusive rights in the Asia-Pacific and Mena regions to Novak Djokovic’s Adria Tour, an eight-man tennis tournament set up by the Serbian tennis s…
Basketball

The Basketball Tournament (TBT) will be held exclusively at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, from July 4-14 and broadcast on ESPN, it has been announced.
Esports

International sports broadcaster ESPN and Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport lead a cohort of broadcasters who will broadcast the first-ever virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans race
Multi-sport

Wanda Sports Group, the owner of the Infront agency, among other interests in sport, suffered a 26-per-cent year-on-year revenue drop in the first quarter of 2020 as its Spectator Sports and Mass Participation…
Football

The slew of media-rights deals agreed for the Korean K League ahead of its recent restart did not generate large revenues for international distributor Sportradar. But the league hopes to capitalise, in the years to come, on the boost to its profile, as one of the first competitions to restart after Covid-19-related shutdowns.
Multi-sport

As major sports properties return to action, the attention of broadcasters in Asia-Pacific is turning to rights-fee rebates and other forms of compensation for the Covid-19 interruption.
Football

The English Premier League is said to have secured an agreement with its domestic rights-holder, pay-television broadcaster Sky, meaning clubs will be able to defer the payment of a collective rebate worth…