Media

Vivendi-owned media group Canal Plus posted revenues of €2.96bn ($3.26bn) for the first half of 2023, a three-per-cent increase on the same period during 2022.

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) wants to give broadcasters the option of bidding for rights across five seasons when it issues its domestic tender on September 12.

The United States women's national team's 1-1 draw with the Netherlands at the Fifa Women's World Cup set a group stage viewership record on English language broadcaster Fox in the US, with 6.43 million viewers and a peak of 8.45 million, while Telemundo's Spanish language broadcast attracted a non-World Cup final record 1.51 million viewers, making for a total of 7.94 million.

Comcast president Michael Cavanagh has said that it is "very improbable" that the company would look to secure a minority stake in ESPN, which is 80-per-cent owned by Disney

US telecommunications and media conglomerate Comcast has blamed higher programming costs at NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock, as well as increased international sports programming costs, as its media division’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) dipped by 18.2 per cent for the second quarter of 2023.

Bids for domestic media rights to Serie A from 2024-25 have been improved but remain below the €1bn ($1.1bn) per season sought by the Italian league, chief executive Luigi De Siervo has revealed.

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…