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Multiple Sports
Media

FreeSports, the UK free-to-air channel, has been added to Samsung TV Plus, the advertising-supported streaming service
Triathlon
Industry Moves

The Ironman Group has appointed Suzanne Cohen as the company’s new chief marketing officer. Cohen joins Ironman’s executive team from JPMorgan Chase & Co., w
Motorsport
Media

Free-to-air broadcaster Channel 4 has agreed a deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky to share live coverage of Sunday’s season finale to the Formula 1 motor racing world championship.
Tennis
Industry Moves

David Lampitt, managing director of sports content and partnerships at Sportradar, has been named the chief executive of Tennis Data Innovations, the new joint venture between tennis’ ATP and ATP Media, t…
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

François Pesenti, the former head of French subscription broadcaster RMC Sport, has joined Top 14 rugby union side Toulon in a role heading up strategic development and marketing.
Basketball
Business

The East Asia Super League is aiming to take the packaging, presentation and on-court quality of club basketball in the region to a new level.
Athletics
Media

Kenyan state broadcaster KBC has agreed a rights deal for World Athletics Series events held in 2022 and 2023
Cricket
Media

The Pakistan Cricket Board and state broadcaster Pakistan Television have reached an out-of-court settlement, according to reports, that will end their legal dispute over their rights deal
Multiple Sports
Data

Red Bee Media, the UK-based media services company, has struck a deal with sports data and technology company Stats Perform
Multiple Sports
Media

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has confirmed that its subscription streaming service Viaplay will launch in the Netherlands on March 1, with multi-year distribution deals having been signed with telcos…
Football
Media

Commercial Sports Media, the Stockholm-based media rights consultancy, has been appointed to advise on the next domestic broadcast rights tender for Swedish football’s top-tier Allsvenskan and second-tier S…
Motorsport
Host Broadcast & Production

The eSkootr Championship (eSC), the world’s first racing series for electric scooters, has named the Canada-based Boombox as its official broadcast production partner.
Rugby Union
Media

UK media watchdog Ofcom is consulting on requests from public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV for approval to broadcast exclusive live coverage of the Six Nations rugby union…
Media

Michel Masquelier, former chairman of IMG Media, talks exclusively to SportBusiness about the lessons learned from 35 years in the industry, the value of private equity investments in sport and why the increasingly sophisticated nature of the sports and entertainment industries is good news for agencies.
Golf
Media

ESPN and the PGA Tour have unveiled details for the inaugural season of PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ in 2022, which will more than triple the total coverage of the Tour's direct-to-consumer streaming service.
Motorsport
Media

Nordic pay-television broadcaster C More has secured a deal covering Finland and Sweden to broadcast the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), the FIA World Rallycross Championship (World RX) and the FIA…
Multiple Sports
Media

US media group Discovery is in talks to form a joint venture with BT concerning the UK telco’s BT Sport arm, according to reports.
Multiple Sports
Sponsorship & Marketing

SPOTV, the new pan-regional, Asia-Pacific sports broadcaster, has appointed Outlast Sports & Entertainment, the Singapore-based sports marketing agency, to sell regional and local advertising, along with…