Media

Tributes have been received from across the sports industry for Chris Synnott, World Rugby’s head of broadcast and media rights, following his recent passing at the age of 51.

Football Sports Development Limited, the operator of the Indian Super League, has launched its first invitation to tender for media rights to the country's pre-eminent football competition

Belgium’s Pro League has been instructed to provide broadcast rights compensation of €14m ($15.6m) to telecoms operators Proximus, Telenet and Voo following the premature termination of the 2019-20 season as a result of Covid-19.

Pay-television operator SCTV has acquired exclusive rights in Vietnam to Spain’s LaLiga for five seasons, up to and including 2027-28.

Bundesliga International has announced Minute Media as the German football league's official content partner in North America

Foxtel’s Main Event channel will become the exclusive home of all pay-per-view UFC events from the start of 2024, bolstering the media group’s position as Australia’s pre-eminent sports broadcaster. P

Fifa has launched an invitation to tender process for the centralised broadcast rights to all matches in the Confederation of African Football’s new-look qualifying competition for the 2026 World Cup.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired exclusive rights in several Southeast Asian countries to this year’s Rugby World Cup, which will take place in France from September 8 to October 28.

Soon-to-launch streaming platform Dyn has secured a carriage deal with pay-television operator Sky Deutschland

Income at ATP Media, the ATP Tour’s international media rights sales and broadcast production arm, dipped slightly in 2022 due to the non-recurrence of an insurance payout for the cancellation of the S…

DAZN has launched its subscription products in Belgium, Portugal and Taiwan on the back of its acquisition last year of Eleven Sports

One of the most intense head-to-head battles in recent years in road cycling had the knock-on effect of producing stellar television ratings for this year’s Tour de France in the three key contributing m…

The United States women's national team's opening match of the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup against Vietnam drew a total domestic viewership of 6.26 million viewers across English-language coverage on Fox and Spanish-language coverage on Telemundo.

Commercial broadcaster RTL has topped up its live football offering in Germany, adding rights to 10 matches from the remainder of the Uefa Euro 2024 qualifying campaign

World Aquatics has spent over $10m (€9m) in legal fees in its bid to maintain control of the sport over the past three years, according to financial statements released today (Monday).

Navin Singh has resigned from his position as commercial director at the Football Association (FA) to take up a leading role with Six Nations Rugby

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and Infront have hammered out the details of a centralised media rights ‘framework agreement’ that brings to an end a long-running feud over the own…

Atlético-MG has become the latest club in Brazilian football to transition into a limited company (SAF), after the sale of 75 per cent to the newly-formed Galo Holding was approved.