Media

Basketball
Media

Euroleague Basketball has completed its final major media rights deal for the 2023-24 season, agreeing a deal that takes its top-tier EuroLeague competition back to Telefónica's Movistar Plus platform …
Football
Media

BeIN Media Group is readying legal action against the Confederation of African Football (CAF) over the continental governing body’s decision to unilaterally cancel its broadcast deal with the Qatari m…
Handball
Media

The Infront agency has taken the decision to launch a streaming platform dedicated to covering European handball's club competitions across the Nordics, after failing to reach agreement with broadcasters…
Football
Media

Lega Serie A chief executive, Luigi De Siervo, has reiterated that broadcasters must meet the organisation’s valuation for its next cycle of domestic rights, adding that if a solution isn’t found it is “much more likely” that it will proceed with the launch of an in-house platform.
Football
Media

Bolivia's football federation has been granted domestic rights to its national team's home Fifa World Cup qualifiers after a court against a claim from agencies Mediapro and Sports TV Rights, which bid for the rights in a tender earlier this year.
Basketball
Media

Deutsche Telekom's offer to negotiate with free-to-air linear broadcasters in Germany over a sub-licensing rights deal for the ongoing Fiba Basketball World Cup appears to have fallen on deaf ears
Football
Finance & Law

The renewed clampdown against piracy in Italian football has commenced, with l'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM), the country's regulator and competition authority for the communications …
Football
Finance & Law

Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive at Fox International Channels, and the Full Play agency have had their convictions for attempting to bribe football officials in exchange for lucrative broadcasting…
Rugby Union
Media

Public-service broadcaster the SABC has been unable to secure a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport for South Africa's matches at the forthcoming 2023 Rugby World Cup in France
Football
Media

A seven-year broadcast rights deal announced by Football Kenya Federation (FKF) with the Tanzania-based Azam Media has been met with a mixture of praise and scepticism from Kenyan Premier League (KPL)…
US College Sport
Governance

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) today (Friday) voted to add three schools to its league, including two more from the beleaguered rival Pac-12 which looks destined to fold in 2024
Tennis
Media

A number of Disney channels, including sports broadcaster ESPN, went dark yesterday (Thursday) for Charter Spectrum subscribers amid a dispute over the terms of a carriage agreement.
Football
Media

The German Football League (DFL) has sought to increase the Bundesliga’s value to international broadcasters through the launch of a whip-around show for overseas audiences.
Football
Media

Fresh off the back of retaining Danish Superliga rights, Viaplay has set its sights on keeping the Uefa Champions League on its screens in Denmark as it plots a path back to profitability
Rugby Union
Governance

A review of the governance of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has warned that the Super Rugby competition must be overhauled in order to become a viable commercial proposition
American Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Paramount-owned CBS Sports is close to selling out its ad space inventory for the 2024 Super Bowl, the showpiece finale to the National Football League season.
Cricket
Media

Media group Viacom18 has strengthened its position as the home of Indian cricket, after today (Thursday) acquiring exclusive linear and digital rights to the national team’s bilateral matches.
Football
Media

Pluto TV, the free, ad-supported streaming service owned by media group Paramount Global, will show the Conmebol Libertadores Femenina for the second successive year, after securing rights across Brazil…