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Baseball
Media

Diamond Sports Group has outlined plans to drop all but one of its 12 regional Major League Baseball broadcasting rights contracts, a move that has blindsided MLB.
Multi-sport
Media

The International Olympic Committee has invited media rights bids in sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa, offering broadcasters and agencies the rights over two Olympic cycles, SportBusiness understands
Basketball
Media

BeIN Sports has signed a new deal to show the 2024-25 National Basketball Association season live in the Mena region, announced three days before the first pre-season game.
Curling
Media

The Curling Group (TCG), the newly-formed venture which has bought the Grand Slam of Curling from Sportsnet, has hired Iris Sport Media to distribute the property’s global broadcast and betting rights.
Basketball
Governance

Conference realignment in the US college sports world continues apace as the rebuilding Pac-12 made another move that will potentially bring an uplift to any future media rights revenue
Australian Rules Football
Media

Commercial broadcaster Seven Network has claimed a year-to-date audience best in Australia, after 6.1 million people watched its coverage of the AFL Grand Final.
Football
Media

BeIN Sports continues to withhold its first instalment payment for Ligue 1 rights amid ongoing doubts over its allocated sponsorship inventory and questions raised over the broadcaster’s media rights package.
Football
Media

Major League Soccer has taken a stake in OneFootball in a deal that will make the league's highlights widely available on the global football media platform.
Football
Finance & Law

LaLiga club FC Barcelona enjoyed record sponsorship revenue in 2023-24 but recorded an overall loss of €91m ($101m) due to defaulting payments from investors in its Barça Vision digital vertical.
Football
Media

The Austrian Bundesliga (ÖFBL) has appointed Munich-based consultancy SN1 Consulting to an advisory role ahead of its next domestic and international rights sales process.
Cricket
Media

With England's tour of Pakistan starting in just six days, pay-television broadcaster Sky is expected to secure media rights in the UK for the three-Test series, SportBusiness understands
Cricket
Events

Sportfive has unveiled its first foray into cricket since the arrival of Seamus O’Brien to head up its Asia-Pacific business with the establishment of a ‘Masters’ T20 league featuring Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.
Rugby Union
Media

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has signed an extension with Premiership Rugby to show live matches on linear television for the next two seasons.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

DirecTV today (Monday) agreed a deal to buy EchoStar's video distribution business, which includes rival Dish TV, a move that would create the US' largest pay-television operator
Football
Media

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has a pan-regional English-language deal in place for this season’s CAF Champions League and second-tier CAF Confederation Cup after rights were sold to pay-television broadcaster SuperSport.
Basketball
Media

The National Basketball Association is thought to have struck a new deal with beIN Sports that allows the league to continue to be aired in France for another season.
Basketball
Media

German streaming platform Dyn Media has added more basketball rights to its portfolio in a deal to exclusively show the matches of German sides Ludwigsburg and Braunschweig in the second-tier Fiba Europe Cup.
Football
Host Broadcast & Production

Danish Superliga domestic rights-holder Viaplay claims to have terminated its agreement with Matchday Production just over two months into the joint venture’s first season of handling the host broadcast f…