Media

Motorsport
Media

The final eight races of Nascar's Xfinity Series will exclusively air on The CW Network this season, accelerating the network's seven-year deal that was set to begin in 2025
Cricket
Media

MTV Channel (Private) Limited has acquired rights in Sri Lanka to International Cricket Council (ICC) competitions until the end of 2025, leaving New Zealand as the only main market where a deal is yet to be announced for the current cycle.
Motorsport
Sponsorship & Marketing

MotoGP will continue to be run as a separate business to Formula 1 and there is unlikely to be any bundling of the media or sponsorship rights to the two properties following Liberty Media’s acquisition of the motorcycling series.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Alex Kay-Jelski, a UK football journalist and editor, has today (Thursday) been named director of sport at the BBC, an appointment likely to be viewed as a surprise choice given his lack of sports media rights buying experience.
Football
Media

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and public broadcaster the BBC have finalised their short-term domestic rights extension for the Women's Super League, covering the 2024-25 season only
Basketball
Media

CBS Sports has signed a new rights deal with the Women's National Basketball Association, which SportBusiness understands runs for two years, as it prepares for record network coverage of the league in 2024.
Multi-sport
Media

Hong Kong’s government has gone back on a promise to steer clear of the country's media rights market, stepping in to acquire exclusive rights to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Multiple Sports
Media

In November, Premier said that it had “agreed to take back control of the business” in a deal subject to competition approval after completing its July 2022 takeover.
Football
Media

TV 2 Group managing director and editor in chief Olav Sandnes said in a press release the media group had faced “strong competition” and that Champions League rights “are not sold on the cheap”.
Football
Media

LiveMode has been renewed as Fifa’s exclusive media rights sales agent in Brazil for the men’s World Cup, providing the agency with a far more attractive package of rights for the 2026 tournament than it sold in 2022.
Wrestling
Events

WWE has announced that WrestleMania XL has become the most-successful and highest-grossing event in company history.
Football
Media

GolTV's troubles in Ecuador continue to mount as five LigaPro clubs revealed they have not been paid by the pay-television broadcaster for the last six months.
Football
Media

A broadcast rights deal between Brazil's biggest football clubs and Globo is reported to contain clauses that limit the amount the broadcaster can pay for the rights of other clubs - a stipulation that would preserve the financial status quo in Brazilian football.
Basketball
Media

The NCAA women's basketball championship game drew a record-shattering 18.7 million viewers, peaking at 24 million as South Carolina won a second title in three years.
Golf
Media

DAZN has continued in its attempts to carve out a niche in golf in a deal for exclusive rights to golf’s 2024 US Masters in the Middle East and North Africa.
Basketball
Media

The Women's National Basketball Association has extended its domestic broadcast deal with Amazon Prime Video for two years, with the platform airing 21 WNBA games each season, including the WNBA Commissioner's…
Rugby Union
Media

TNT Sports has acquired rights to the Autumn Nations Series, replacing Amazon as the rights-holder in the UK in a strengthening of the pay-television broadcaster's rugby union portfolio.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

DAZN has continued its pivot towards free, advertising-supported content with the appointment of Elena Novokreshchenova as its first ‘global chief executive of freemium’.