Media
NESN becomes first US RSN to offer direct-to-consumer option
New England effort predates planned Bally Sports+ offering from Sinclair
Nova outbids Cosmote to secure Aris rights to 2025
United Group’s Nova has extended its rights agreement with Greek football club Aris for another three seasons, seeing off competition from rival broadcaster Cosmote TV.
Customer operations executive Maman becomes DAZN’s latest Entain hire
DAZN Group, the global sports streaming service and media group, has announced the appointment of Roni Maman to the newly-created role of executive vice-president for customer success and operations
ARY secures live streaming rights to Pakistan matches versus England, West Indies
Pay-television broadcaster ARY has acquired live streaming rights in Pakistan to the national cricket team's forthcoming one-day international series against the West Indies and T20 series against England
IMG to produce Channel 4’s Uefa Nations League coverage
The IMG agency is to produce Channel 4’s live UK coverage of England’s forthcoming Uefa Nations League matches.
FuboTV announces trio of senior appointments
Sports-focused streaming service and channel aggregator fuboTV has appointed Ben Grad as a senior vice-president and head of strategic partnerships and operations, while Todd Mathers and Andrew Steinberg…
Volleyball World taps LiveU to provide broadcast feeds using IP connectivity
Volleyball World, the commercial rights-holder for all International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) properties, has appointed LiveU, the live video streaming and remote production technology provider, to…
SBT adds Copa América Femenina to football portfolio
Brazilian commercial broadcaster SBT has acquired rights to this year’s Copa América Femenina, which will take place in Colombia from July 8 to 30.
Seven CEO Warburton calls for anti-siphoning extension to cover streaming services
James Warburton, the chief executive of Australian free-to-air broadcaster Seven West Media, has called on the newly-elected Australian government to tighten the country’s 'anti-siphoning' laws to stop s…
MLB Network revives player-focused alternate game broadcasts
League-owned network extends industry embrace of non-traditional telecasts
Canal Plus names Rodrigues as digital sports head
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has named Bruno Rodrigues as its digital sports director
LaLiga offers non-exclusive Segunda División rights after receiving no bids
LaLiga, the governing body of Spain’s top two professional football tiers, received no bids for exclusive rights to its second-tier Segunda División, and will now market the rights non-exclusively.
Barcelona considers sale of LaLiga TV rights revenue, stake in licensing arm
FC Barcelona will hold an extraordinary assembly meeting on June 16, with its members to vote on whether the club should sell a minority stake in its Barça Licensing & Merchandising subsidiary, and on …
Optus Sport renews Uefa national team rights
Australian telco Optus has renewed its rights for the Uefa European Qualifiers and Nations League for the 2022-23 to 2025-26 cycle
ATP Media income up 87 per cent as events return, profit hits $6.3m
Income at ATP Media, the ATP Tour’s international media rights sales and broadcast production arm, recovered to $160.6m (€150m) in 2021 as a near-full tennis calendar took place.
Following a 38.3-p
Criscitiello’s Micri Communication takes over Sportitalia
Michele Criscitiello has secured full control of Italia Sport Communication, parent company of digital terrestrial television broadcaster Sportitalia
DAZN appoints BT executive Oliver as CMO
DAZN Group, the global sports streaming service and media group, has announced the appointment of former BT commercial, marketing and digital executive Pete Oliver as its new chief marketing officer
ITV extends Twitter content agreement
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has extended its content sharing deal with Twitter, with the social media platform to showcase ITV Sport’s portfolio over the next two years.