Media

The French Football Federation remains in talks with pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports over a package of domestic broadcast rights to the Coupe de France, the national knockout clubs competition

Spain’s dramatic loss to Japan at the Fifa World Cup netted an average audience of 9.7 million viewers on La1, the main channel of public-service broadcaster RTVE.

Media rights agency IMG has agreed a flurry of international broadcast deals for Queensberry Promotions’ all-British WBC World Heavyweight Championship fight between Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora. 

Motorsports media publication Speed Sport has partnered with media group Obsession Media along with a consortium of motorsports and broadcast executives to launch the Speed Sport 1 channel in 2023

Indian media group Viacom18 has moved to further exploit its rights to the 2022 Fifa World Cup by agreeing a content deal with Snap Inc, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS's audience figures for the Australia-Denmark match at the Fifa World Cup were boosted by a strong take-up on its OTT streaming platform

Hendrik Weber has returned to the German Football League (DFL), organising body of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, to head up a restructured sports technology and innovation department

Subscription broadcaster Premier Sports has further strengthened its rugby union coverage in Southeast Asia by agreeing a two-season rights deal for European club competitions the Champions Cup and Challenge…

Canada’s second match of the 2022 Fifa World Cup last Sunday was the most-watched Fifa World Cup group-stage match ever in the country. The loss to Belgium averaged an audience of 4.4

TF1, the French commercial broadcaster, has been left angered after missing a VAR decision that came after the full-time whistle in France’s Fifa World Cup match against Tunisia.

The Spanish Basketball Clubs Association (ACB) has agreed rights deals in China with online streaming platforms PP Sports and Bilibili for Liga ACB, the top tier of Spanish club basketball

Cypriot telecoms operator Cyta has retained all but one of its Uefa club competition rights packages but has lost rights to the first-pick Europa League or Europa Conference League match to public broadcaster CyBC, SportBusiness understands.

New FAST channel to feature wide range of league content

Uefa has announced the launch of a tender process for the provision of various technological and broadcasting services to be deployed at certain competitions run by European football’s governing body f…

Subscription-free streaming platform Recast has announced the launch of a new feature which it claims will provide an alternative to existing online advertising models

Viaplay Group, the international subscription streaming broadcaster, has secured rights to International Handball Federation (IHF) competitions in 10 European countries, including the Nordic countries…