Media

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister of Italy and long-time owner of Serie A football club AC Milan, has died at the age of 86

Experienced media executive Martin Stewart has been promoted to the role of chief executive at outside broadcast service provider NEP Group

Saturday evening’s Uefa Champions League final registered the highest free-to-air audience in Italy since 2017 as Inter Milan lost out to Manchester City.

The current level of spending on sports rights in Greece cannot be maintained, according to Dimitris Michalakis, the long-serving executive director of Cosmote TV, the pay-television arm of the Greek telco

Italian public broadcaster Rai has announced the death of Pier Francesco Forleo, head of its sports rights department

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has pooled together the betting video and fastpath data rights to its own competitions plus those of baseball’s confederations and selected leagues in L…

Indian subscription OTT service Disney+ Hotstar has detailed plans to provide free-to-air coverage of this year’s Cricket World Cup and Asia Cup for smartphone users.

Tencent, the digital multimedia company, is back as a Formula 1 rights-holder in China, signing a multi-year deal with the motor-racing series

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has renewed a rights agreement with the SailGP sailing series. The new five-year deal will run until 2028, according to L’Équipe.

New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) has acquired audio broadcasting rights for this year’s Rugby World Cup, which will take place in France.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) wants to prioritise media rights deals with more free-to-air broadcasters in a bid to grow exposure for the sport, after the governing body recorded a second consecutive…

ESPN, the American broadcaster for Formula 1, has announced an alternate broadcast hosted by Red Bull Racing reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo and actor and F1 fan Will Arnett for the Canadian Grand Prix…

Pete Bevacqua is to quit his role as chairman of NBC Sports Group to become athletic director at Notre Dame, the prestigious US university

Rugby Europe has struck a deal with the European Broadcasting Union that will see its rugby sevens events televised by public-service broadcasters in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Spain

The organising committee for 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games in Santiago has concluded the line-up of broadcasters in the host nation through the signing of a deal with commercial broadcaster…

Virgin Media, the Irish telco and commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has acquired rights to the 2023 World Athletics Championships