Media

Premiership Rugby, the top tier of rugby union in England, is to have its matches shown in France again after an absence of over two seasons via a deal with beIN Sports

Channel 4 has been identified as the winning bidder for free-to-air rights to the Women’s FA Cup from 2025-26 to 2027-28, SportBusiness understands.

Sportradar overcame a €14m ($18m) jump in third-quarter financing costs on the back of new rights deals with the ATP Tour, Bundesliga and NBA to report profit of €37m in the third quarter.

Hospitality sales related to the Paris 2024 Olympics helped boost revenues at Endeavor, where sports were the biggest driver of growth across the group in an otherwise mixed third quarter.

Warner Bros. Discovery has registered a $135m net profit in Q3, despite total revenues falling four per cent, aided by a record growth in DTC subscribers amid the Olympic Games

Boxing remains a vertical of interest to TKO but there will be no immediate move into the sport described "at its best as confused and fragmented, at its worst as broken" by president Mark Shapiro.

Viaplay Group's new tougher stance on business-to-business negotiations has paid off, after a carriage deal with RiksTV, the Norwegian pay-television operator, was extended after an intense round of talks

Alan Fagan, previously a leading European rights executive at ESPN, has been hired by the EBU as managing director of its new sports streaming platform, replacing Jean-Baptiste Casta.

Former Premier League media rights executive Michael Edelston has quit his role at Formula E to join the sports department at Amazon Prime Video

The BBC has secured a wider package of Premier League radio rights after picking up exclusive rights to the Saturday 3pm matches for the new cycle, running from 2025-26 to 2028-29

Germany’s Sportdigital is closing in on an agreement to acquire the pay-television channels of Sport1 as the broadcaster now jointly owned by Turkey’s Acunmedya trims its sports content offering.

A series of raids have been undertaken in Paris this morning in relation to the conditions of CVC Capital Partners’ €1.5bn ($1.6bn) investment deal with France’s Professional Football League (LFP).

The WTA Finals, the season-ending WTA Tour tournament, has returned to Chinese linear television for the first time since the Peng Shuai controversy in November 2021

Women's World Cup media rights are being sold by Fifa on a standalone basis for the first time in the United States.

JTBC's exclusive swoop for Fifa World Cup rights in South Korea has disrupted the joint pool strategy and only served to inflate costs, the country's leading free-to-air broadcasters have claimed.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has continued its pivot towards domestic investment with a move to acquire 54 per cent of Saudi media group MBC.