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BeIN Sports’ first instalment payment for its slice of Ligue 1 domestic rights remains unpaid with the broadcaster understood to be holding out for full details of the sponsorship inventory it has been awarded.

Extreme E (XE), the electric off-road racing series, has scrapped the remaining races on the 2024 calendar, including a planned debut in the United States, and is evaluating how best to complete its final…

TV Pública, the state broadcaster in Argentina, has insisted it is in talks to sublicense rights to the Argentina national team for the remainder of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifiers after a rare blackout last night.

Amazon has further strengthened its presence in the Canadian sports media market after reaching an agreement to carry Bell Media’s TSN service on its Prime Video channels.

Nicolas Matthews has left his role as chief executive of SportsMax, the Caribbean pay-television broadcaster, SportBusiness understands.

ITV will no longer show its weekly National Football League highlights programme in the UK this season

Tennis media rights executive John Learing is leaving DAZN after close to a decade heading up the WTA Media joint venture.

Major League Baseball has piled the pressure on Diamond Sports Group, claiming it will consider "more drastic" legal action should the firm's emergence from bankruptcy not be accelerated

Premier League coverage in the Caribbean will be shown by the ESPN channels and made available to Flow TV subscribers after a deal with pay-television broadcaster Verticast ended one season early.

Russian sports marketing agency Telesport is allegedly demanding the bankruptcy of its former owner Petr Makarenko as the businessman and his former company come under a myriad of lawsuits to recover debt

SportBusiness understands that Amazon Prime Video will soon finalise a deal to exclusively show one match per week – a home fixture of a club belonging to the Liga Forte Uniao bloc – over five years, from 2025 to 2029.

ITV has concluded an eleventh-hour deal with Viaplay to show live UK coverage of Uefa Nations League matches this week featuring Scotland and Northern Ireland.

IMG is currently looking to recruit a vice-president of football in the Americas and a vice-president of rights in Latin America after losing some key experience in the region

The Sporty Group has solidified its free-to-air football rights portfolio in Ghana and Nigeria in long-term deals for LaLiga, Serie A and the English Football League

Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington have seen the start of their era as Big Ten Conference schools blacked out to Comcast customers in their home markets, as the latter’s Big Ten Network carriage row rumbled into the start of the new season.

The Premier League will enjoy continuity in its coverage in Hong Kong after Now TV, the pay-television arm of telco PCCW, retained its rights for three more seasons