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Media Football

The JioStar era has begun with a renewal of English Premier League rights in the Indian subcontinent from 2025-26 to 2027-28
Industry Moves Multiple Sports

The Wasserman-owned CSM has appointed experienced agency executive Ian Mathie to a role heading up its activities in Saudi Arabia
Media Football

The Premier League expects to generate £12.25bn (€14.7bn/$15.4bn) in commercial revenues for the 2025-28 cycle as international rights continue to outpace domestic sales, and with more major deals set to be announced soon.
Sponsorship & Marketing Multiple Sports

Le Coq Sportif has been placed in receivership as it continues to try and salvage its financial future and remains subject of a legal case for non-payment of fees to the French Rugby Federation (FFR).
Media Basketball

Streaming platform Migu, a subsidiary of telco China Mobile, has extended its deal for the Chinese Basketball Association League, the top tier of domestic basketball in China, until the end of the decade
Industry Moves Multiple Sports

Marc Jury is to depart as chief executive of MultiChoice South Africa in March, after almost a decade with the leading sub-Saharan African pay-television group
Sponsorship & Marketing Football

Beer brand Hahn has become title sponsor of the Australia Cup, the country’s leading club football knock-out competition, in an alcohol sector event-naming deal that is rare in Australian sport.
Media Football

Globo is set to return to broadcasting the Campeonato Carioca, five years after ending its last deal in acrimonious circumstances, joining Band as a rights-holder.
Media Football

Belgium’s Pro League is to study the launch of its own subscription service to showcase matches after opting against accepting the latest broadcast rights bids.
Finance & Law Football

​Eagle Football Holdings (EFH), the multi-club ownership group led by American entrepreneur John Textor, has announced $40m (€38.4m)
Sponsorship & Marketing Motorsport

The Renault-owned Alpine Formula 1 team has engaged with a new segment of the gambling sector via a new deal with Modo Casino, while rival team Haas has added two new sponsors
Media Cricket

Indian media group Sony Pictures Networks has secured exclusive global media rights to Asian Cricket Council events from 2024 to 2031, replacing rival Disney Star in a move which has surprised the market
Finance & Law Football

Premier League clubs have today (Friday) approved changes to the league’s Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules, representing a blow for Manchester City in its long-running legal battle against the league.
Host Broadcast & Production Football

IMG will lose its long-held and lucrative Premier League broadcast production business from 2026-27 after the English top flight decided to take the operations in-house in a major blow to the agency
Industry Moves Football

Ben Morel, the former Six Nations Rugby and NBA executive, is to step down next year as chief executive of LFP Media, the commercial rights entity of France’s Professional Football League.
Media Athletics

Infront has tied down more media rights business in athletics in a two-edition deal to sell international broadcast rights to the new World Athletics Ultimate Championship
Sponsorship & Marketing Sailing

Rolex has upgraded its SailGP sponsorship to become its first-ever title sponsor, having previously conditioned its support on the team sailing series going without such a designation.
Media Basketball

Dyn Media has bought a package of matches from the 2024-25 NCAA college basketball season on an exclusive basis in Germany, taking over from DAZN.
Media Multiple Sports

US telco Comcast has announced plans to spin off most its cable networks, which include USA Network, which frequently shows live sports as part of NBC’s media rights deals, and the Golf Channel.
Technology Football

FC Barcelona has agreed a sponsorship deal with New Era Visionary Group (NEVG) that will see the infrastructure integrations specialist work with telco Orange to launch a ‘Barça Mobile’ phone service for …