Uefa suspends Champions League indefinitely, postpones June play-offs
Uefa, football’s European governing body, has moved to put all competitions under its auspices on hold amid the ongoing shutdown caused by the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ex-Sportfive Germany sponsorship executive to lead Volleyball Bundesliga commercial operations
Germany’s Volleyball Bundesliga has appointed Gunter Hardt, previously a sponsorship and marketing executive at the Lagardère-owned Sportfive Germany agency, as its managing director, commercial and ma…
Hurting French sports leagues eye broadcaster tax relief
French sports leagues and federations will be hoping that a proposed tax relief system will soften the financial blow on broadcasters suffering from the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and incentivise…
DAZN defers rights fee payments and furloughs staff
DAZN, the global sports subscription service, has begun to inform sports rights-holders that it will not make its next rights fee payments for any content that has yet to be delivered, SportBusiness understands
Eurovision Sport negotiates archive access with federations
Eurovision Sport, the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters, has negotiated agreements with rights-holders to allow its member broadcasters to air archive…
Study highlights slow uptake in French OTT sports sector
A study published today (Monday) by the French broadcast and internet piracy regulators has found a markedly low appetite among the public to subscribe to a sports streaming platform
IMG Arena and ATP Media’s virtual tennis product to provide much-needed content
IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, and ATP Media, the ATP Tour’s international media-rights sales and broadcast production arm, have developed a virtual ATP Masters 1000 tennis product f…
Hearn awaits clarification on closed-doors events in move for live TV content
Matchroom Sport’s Barry Hearn is continuing to look at ways to stage live sports events behind closed doors despite the UK being in a state of ‘lockdown’ due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
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Karajica to advise esports platform after ProSiebenSat.1 exit
Željko Karajica, a leading figure in the German sports media-rights industry, has taken up a position as consultant to #loggedinfestival, the new online esports platform.
Karajica recently left ProSiebenSat.
Serie A 2018-19 revenues hit €2.7bn after media-rights increases
Italian football’s Serie A registered a 13.5-per-cent increase in revenues during the 2018-19 season, in part thanks to improved media-rights revenues.