Tencent

Baseball
Media

Chinese streaming platform and internet giant Tencent has announced its first major sports media rights deal covering territories outside its home market, with a three-year deal for Major League Baseball…
Motorsport
Media

Off-road electric racing series Extreme E has further boosted its coverage in China ahead of its impending debut by agreeing a rights deal with conglomerate Tencent
Football
Media

The Chinese Super League is discussing options for the exploitation of its domestic media rights from the 2021 season onwards with several different broadcasters, following the premature end of a deal…
Football
Media

Chinese tech giant Tencent has agreed a collaboration with Thai media company Zense Entertainment to create an app to deliver live streaming match coverage and other content from Thai football
Rowing
Media

The Tencent Cloud division of Chinese digital media company Tencent has agreed a deal with World Rowing to provide global live streaming of the federation’s upcoming World Indoor Championships.
Basketball
Media

Chinese streaming giant Tencent showed a live Houston Rockets game on Monday for the first time since the Daryl Morey controversy in October 2019
Multi-sport
Events

Due to a spike of Covid-19 cases in South Korea the ITTF has cancelled the 2020 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships
Host Broadcast & Production

Chinese tech giant Tencent has agreed a three-year partnership with Israeli AI technology provider WSC Sports around video production features and enhancements
Esports
Finance & Law

Shanghai-based esports solutions provider Versus Programming Network (VSPN) has raised close to $100m (€85m) in a Series B funding round led by Chinese digital platform Tencent.
Esports
Media

Huya has agreed a deal to acquire fellow live streaming service DouYu in a stock-for-stock merger deal that is set to create a live online gaming streaming giant in China
American Football
Media

American football's NFL has renewed its digital media rights deal with Chinese internet giant Tencent for the 2020 season, and the two parties have launched a new subscription service around the content
Events

Indian retailer Future Group has pulled out of its sponsorship of the Indian Premier League. The company is suffering financial problems linked to Covid-19
Athletics
Events

Chinese company LD Sports is to walk away from its £7.5m ($9.8m/€8.3m
Athletics
Events

Lars Graff has been appointed co-tournament director of the China Open tennis tournament
Baseball
Events

The Korean KBO basketball league yesterday increased the number of fans allowed into games from 10 per cent of stadium capacity to 25 per cent - Naver
Media

Chinese tech giant Tencent is said to be pressing for a merger of China’s biggest game-streaming platforms Huya and DouYu.
Cricket
Events

Next year's Tokyo Olympics will take place even if the Covid-19 pandemic is still underway, said Toshiro Muto, chief executive of the Games' organising committee
Athletics
Events

Fifa said there is "no reason" for the Swiss criminal investigation into president Gianni Infantino, and he will continue in his role as normal