Media
RTVE nets free-to-air Fifa World Cup rights
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has secured free-to-air rights from the Mediapro agency to show matches from the 2022 Fifa World Cup
Sportdigital Fussball, OneFootball team up for Turkish Cup rights deal
German pay-television broadcaster Sportdigital Fussball and media platform OneFootball have teamed up to provide coverage of the remainder of this season’s Turkish Cup.
Kayo appoints former NFL marketing manager Hefele as executive director
Former National Football League marketing manager Cate Hefele has been appointed as executive director of Kayo, the subscription streaming platform owned by Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel
Sports Matters Academy | Know Your Rights
Educational content series Sports Matters Academy breaks down the media rights business, with input from Meta, beIN Sports, FMA, SPOTV, WTT and Eleven.
Nine talks up sports rights ambitions on back of strong financial results
The chief executive of Australian media group Nine Entertainment, Mike Sneesby, suggested the company is interested in acquiring domestic cricket rights as well as renewing its Australian Open tennis rights,…
Seifert, Axel Springer shed light on new sports streaming platform
Christian Seifert, the former chief executive of the German Football League (DFL), has said the new streaming platform planned with Axel Springer should be not looked upon by rights-holders as a short-term…
Discovery reaches 22m OTT subscribers, international revenues up 22 per cent
Discovery, the US-based media group that owns Eurosport, today (Thursday) reported full-year revenues of $4.54bn (€4.0
Kenya’s KBC secures Commonwealth Games rights in TVMS deal
Kenyan state broadcaster KBC will be the exclusive free-to-air broadcaster for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham from July 28 to August 8
Sky NZ mulls price hike as six-month profit falls; secures PFL rights
Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand is considering increasing the price of its sports content after its latest financial report showed profit for the six months to December fell more than a quarter
Bernard-Bret to lead marketing at Discovery Sports
The Discovery Sports arm of media group Discovery has promoted David Bernard-Bret to oversee all marketing activity for the company’s sports business and brands.
LFP ‘shortlists’ private equity quartet in race for commercial subsidiary stake
France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has shortlisted four private equity groups to compete for a stake in its planned commercial subsidiary.
Fiba replaces LiveBasketball.tv with new OTT platform Courtside 1891
The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has launched Courtside 1891, a new OTT platform to replacing the existing LiveBasketball.tv as the primary streaming service for national team basketball
IOC to go to market with European broadcast rights next month
The International Olympic Committee is to launch its highly-anticipated European broadcast rights sales process on March 10 and has given prospective bidders a six-and-a-half week turnaround to submit…
Meta’s Hutton appointed as non-executive director at Eleven
International sports broadcaster Eleven Group has strengthened its senior leadership team by appointing Peter Hutton, director of sports partnerships at social media company Meta, as a non-executive director
UK Serious Fraud Office launches probe into collapse of Arena Television
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into the business practices of individuals associated with outside broadcast company Arena Television and its linked entities.
EXCLUSIVE: ATP Board votes to remove conflicts of interest, spelling end for IMG seat
The ATP Board, the decision-making body of the ATP men’s tennis tour, has approved a motion to remove conflicts of interest, meaning IMG Tennis’ Gavin Forbes will be unable to run again as one of three tou…
Sinclair remains undeterred in Q2 debut for streaming service
Operator of Bally Sports RSNs issues downbeat earnings report
FanCode to stream Afghanistan cricket tour of Bangladesh in India
Indian online streaming platform FanCode has acquired exclusive streaming rights in India to Afghanistan’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh, which starts today (Wednesday).