Nippon TV, Japan’s multiplatform entertainment company, has partnered with Netflix to make 30 of its drama series and entertainment shows available outside Japan, all across Asia. The first 15 titles have just started to stream, these include its 2011 drama series I’m Mita, Your Housekeeper, DEATH NOTE, which is a live-action drama based on a […]
Electric SUV racing series, Extreme E, has announced an addition to its current broadcast agreement with beIN Sports. The international broadcaster, which already airs Extreme E within its MENA territories, will televise all five of Extreme E’s 2021 X Prix events with race highlights, magazine, preview and review shows in its South East Asian regions: […]
ECAC Hockey is extending its rights agreement with ESPN+ to stream more than 350 games each season through the 2028-29. Every regular-season and post-season game (conference and non-conference) hosted at an ECAC Hockey venue will be streamed on ESPN+ with no blackout restrictions. That includes the annual women’s championship, and men’s championship in Lake Placid, […]
Football’s governing body FIFA has launched an invitation to tender (ITT) for the worldwide in-flight and in-ship media rights to its 2022-2023 competitions, including the FIFA World Cup 2022 and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. The tender also includes the rights to FIFA’s youth and beach football events taking place in 2022 and 2023. The […]
The National Lacrosse League (NLL) has announced the most extensive US media rights agreement in its history, giving ESPN and ESPN+ exclusive rights in the US and the rest of the world outside Canada for live NLL games. All NLL games will be carried on an ESPN network or platform. ESPN linear networks – with […]
Following the success of the first Canadian series, BBC Three has acquired series two of Canada’s Drag Race from World of Wonder, bringing it back to BBC iPlayer in December 2021. The second series will drop as a ten-part boxset on BBC iPlayer, alongside a special anniversary episode with Canada’s First Drag Superstar, Priyanka, looking […]
In Spain, digital piracy experienced another decline in absolute figures, according to data from 2020, among the findings of the Observatory on Piracy and Digital Content Consumption Habits 2020, prepared by the independent consultancy GfK at the request of IP protection trade body La Coalición de creadores e industrias de contenidos and presented by the […]
APO Group, the Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), providing the public broadcaster with sports content from the whole of Africa. SABC is South Africa’s national broadcaster. It broadcasts across 19 radio stations (AM/FM) and six television channels, and is […]
Eleven and OneFootball will broadcast live matches and highlights from nine European professional football leagues across the world in a collective deal with The Association of European Professional Leagues (European Leagues). For the first time ever, European Leagues worked with nine of its members to bundle their broadcast media rights outside their domestic markets. Thanks […]
Prime Video has announced an agreement with TF1 to broadcast Ligue 1 Uber Eats highlights Téléfoot, its flagship Sunday football show, with images and highlights from matches during the 2021/2022 season. “We’re very excited about this agreement with TF1 and make Ligue 1 Uber Eats football even more visible to all football fans across the […]