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FPT strikes three-year deal for NBA rights in Vietnam
Vietnamese telecoms operator FPT has acquired exclusive rights to the NBA in a deal starting with the current season and running until 2024-25
Prime Video adds alternate ‘TNF’ stream with ‘The Shop’
Prime Video announced it will collaborate with Uninterrupted's Emmy-award winning show The Shop as part of an alternate stream offering for the National Football League's Thursday Night Football.
FPT ‘pays huge fee increase’ for Vietnamese V.League football rights
Telco FPT is reported to have paid a huge fee increase to acquire Vietnamese domestic V.League football rights in a multi-year deal starting in 2023
NYC Marathon to livestream pro races
For the first time, the New York City Marathon will be livestreaming the entirety of the professional men’s and women’s wheelchair and open division races on the official 2022 TCS New York City Marathon App…
NBA to stream Wembanyama French games on its app
The National Basketball Association announced that all Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 games, which feature French star and top 2023 NBA Draft prospect Victor Wembanyama will be streamed for free on…
DAZN makes further redundancies at London headquarters
Global sports streaming service and media company DAZN Group is undertaking another round of redundancies at its London headquarters as it steps up recruitment across other operations under an increasingly…
Cricket Australia expands Gravity Media production deal
Production and media services company Gravity Media has announced the expansion of its broadcast and technology deal with Cricket Australia
Sat.1 adds to live Bundesliga output in Sky sublicensing deal
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has agreed a sublicensing deal with the Seven.One Entertainment Group agency granting its commercial broadcasting group ProSiebenSat
Former BT Sport head Green joins Sport Buff board
Experienced sports rights and broadcast executive Simon Green has become a shareholder and joined the board of gamification and on-screen engagement company Sport Buff
ESPN sells controlling interest in X Games to MSP Sports Capital
ESPN and New York-based private equity firm MSP Sports Capital announced a sale of ESPN’s majority interest in the X Games to MSP Sports Capital, with ESPN continuing to own a minority, non-controlling p…
BeIN signs landmark agreement with Saudi agency
BeIN Media Group, the Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster, has signed a strategic agreement with Saudi Media Co., an advertising sales agency with close connections to the Saudi government
Bundesliga International CMO Naubert to assume Klein’s responsibilities
Peer Naubert, chief marketing officer at Bundesliga International, is to take over the responsibilities of Robert Klein, chief executive of the German league’s international rights sales arm, from the e…
1190 Sports secures first Turkish coverage for Brazilian top flight
1190 Sports, the international broadcast rights-holder to Brazil’s top two football leagues, has signed an agreement with Turkish pay-television broadcaster D-Smart to show the top-tier Brasileiro Serie A…
FFF to broadcast Coupe de France matches on its own website
The French Football Federation will broadcast matches from this weekend’s seventh round of the Coupe de France on its own website after failing to secure a new domestic rights deal.
GAA extends RTÉ and TG4 rights deals, signs expanded agreement with BBC
The Gaelic Athletic Association has renewed rights deals with Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ and Irish-language broadcaster TG4 and has also signed a new expanded agreement with UK public-service …
Viaplay details subscriber growth, cuts full-year guidance
Subscription streaming broadcaster Viaplay has posted a 78-per-cent year-on-year increase in paying subscribers but recorded a SEK86m (€7.86m/$7.88m) loss for the third quarter of 2022.
What mattered at Sports Matters 2022
APAC editor Kevin McCullagh reviews the talking points at this year's Sports Matters industry conference in Singapore
Nine ‘open to partnership’ on Stan, in talks for Tennis Australia and Cricket Australia rights
Australian media group Nine Entertainment is open to investment from third parties in its streaming service Stan, but is not planning to sell the platform, according to local media reports