‘Sport in France’ to show French top-tier ice hockey league
The ‘Sport in France’ free-to-air channel will broadcast the country’s top-tier men’s ice hockey league in the 2020-21 season.
Inv
Premier League ‘mulls’ granting season-ticket holders access to live matches
English Premier League clubs are mulling over whether they will allow season-ticket holders to watch non-televised matches, after the UK government decided not to allow fans back into stadiums next month…
Sky Deutschland expands OTT sports highlights offer
German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland is expanding its Sky Ticket OTT sports highlights offering to encompass a wider range of content to sit alongside the live coverage already on offer
ITV retains British Touring Car Championship rights until 2026
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has extended its long-running coverage of the British Touring Car Championship for a further five years to 2026.
The renewal with rights-holder Toca starts in 2022
Premier League fills void in China with one-season Tencent deal
The English Premier League has agreed a deal with Chinese digital platform Tencent for the media rights to the competition in the country for the remainder of the 2020-21 season
All EFL Cup fixtures available for live UK broadcast in September
English League Cup matches played in September will be shown live in the UK either through incumbent domestic broadcast rights-holder Sky Sports or streaming services
Super League, RFL media-rights tender underway in UK
Super League rugby and the Rugby Football League are believed to have initiated the sales process in the UK for media rights to their respective properties
Dutch amateur football streamer VoetbalTV ‘files for bankruptcy’
The VoetbalTV OTT platform, which showed amateur football matches in the Netherlands, has gone bankrupt after it was found to have breached data protection legislation, according to local media
L’Équipe TV poised to land French basketball league rights
Digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe TV is reportedly poised to acquire rights to the Ligue Nationale de Basket.
Eurosport close to EHF Champions League rights deal in France
Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport is close to finalising an agreement in France for rights to handball’s EHF Champions League from the 2020-21 season.