Media

The National Rugby League will be confident of securing an uplift in broadcast and commercial revenues in the next cycle, after it emerged an 18th franchise spot has been awarded to Western Australia.

News Corp is weighing up the sale of its Foxtel pay-television business in Australia after receiving takeover interest.

US media giant Paramount Global's focus will remain international when its takeover by Skydance Media is completed, despite a tightening of the belts that will lead to mass job cuts.

South African public broadcaster the SABC has requested proposals for a partner to help it launch its own satellite television broadcasting service to challenge Openview, the main free-to-air satellite operator in the market.

IMG Arena and OpenBet have become the first Endeavor-owned entities to be put up for sale ahead of Silver Lake’s expected privatisation of the sports and entertainment giant in the first quarter of 2025.

TKO Group, the Endeavor-owned parent company of WWE and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has raised its full-year guidance after posting new quarterly records for revenue and adjusted earnings.

The Premier League has a new home in Mexico and Central America after its previous broadcast partner, Paramount Global, handed back rights ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Lega Serie B has taken the unprecedented step of deciding to re-launch its domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender (ITT) nine days before the new season begins amid increasing fears of a coverage blackout.

Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav has attempted to play down concerns that the group's impending loss of NBA rights will have a significant impact on future carriage negotiations.

Walt Disney's combined streaming business was profitable for the first time in the third quarter, helped by ESPN+, as the US entertainment giant moved back into the black

Extensive live coverage of Czech football’s knockout clubs competition is moving away from public-service broadcaster Česká Televize to pay-television broadcaster O2 TV in a landmark five-season agreement.

Bundesliga International has agreed five broadcast deals in sub-Saharan Africa to bolster both its pan-regional and national distribution across free-to-air and pay-television

Genius Sports’ second-quarter net loss has widened year over year to $21.8m (€20m) as the group says it will only target profitable betting rights acquisitions, having already sewn up English Premier League and NFL contracts to nearly the end of the decade.

Liga Forte União is on the verge of striking its first media rights deal for the new era of Brazilian football from 2025, as the 31-club collective nears an agreement with free-to-air broadcaster Record.

Streaming platform Fubo lost more than 60,000 subscribers in North America during the second quarter of 2024 and posted a net loss of $25.8m (€23.6m) for the three-month period.

DAZN has renewed its exclusive media rights to broadcast the English Premier League in Spain and Portugal from 2025-26 to 2027-28 as it continues to solidify its football portfolio across Europe