Sports streaming platform DAZN has acquired the rights to broadcast all of Serie A including seven out of 10 exclusive matches per match-week in Italy from 2021 to 2024 – and becomes the new primary broadcaster of the competition. It is paying a reported €840 million a season for the deal, replacing Sky, which offered […]

Extreme E, the off-road electric race series, has announced that Chinese media giant Tencent will stream all five of the championship’s X Prix on its digital platform, QQ.com as well as its associated apps Tencent Sports, Tencent News and Tencent Video. In addition, Extreme E’s race highlights and magazine programmes will also be available online […]

discover.film has announced a content deal with the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and moving image. The global platform will host a dedicated strand of curated content, selected from the BFI’s archives, one of the largest collections of film and television in the world. Highlights include Ridley Scott’s debut film, Boy and […]

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has announced the acquisition of more exclusive skiing rights – the FIS World Cup-events taking place in Switzerland. Starting this autumn, NENT Group’s Viaplay will stream more than 500 hours of live skiing every season. This additional four-year deal starts in in autumn 2022 and contains […]

WWE has announced a new partnership with Virgin Media Television to broadcast highlights of WWE’s flagship programmes Raw and SmackDown on free-to-air television for the first time in Ireland. From March 27th, Virgin Media Two will air a one-hour version of Raw on Sunday mornings. and one-hour version of SmackDown on Saturdays mornings. The weekly […]

CBS Sports has announced an agreement for Paramount+, ViacomCBS’ subscription streaming service, to serve as the exclusive English-language home in the US of qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 for the CONCACAF region of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The deal, which comes into effect immediately, includes six away matches […]

In advance of the Alexander Povetkin versus Dillian Whyte ‘Rumble On The Rock’ heavyweight boxing rematch bout on March 27th, Kieron Sharp, CEO of UK intellectual property protection body FACT, has issued a warning  on the dangers of illegally streaming fight, which is only available on  PPV basis. “With the Povetkin fight taking place this […]

Insight TV, the millennial-focused global channel and content producer, has signed an agreement to broadcast the inaugural season of Extreme E, the electric off-road racing championship. Broadcasting across Insight TV’s linear and digital networks from April, Extreme E will visit five remote locations highlighting a variety of environmental issues including desertification, rising sea levels, glacial […]

The ninth annual International IP Index, Recovery Through Ingenuity, from the US Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), which champions innovation and creativity through intellectual property standards, has highlighted the extraordinary role of intellectual property (IP) rights in delivering pandemic-ending solutions. The report evaluates IP rights in 53 global economies — from patent […]

Azuri Technologies, a provider of affordable pay-as-you-go solar home systems to off-grid consumers across Africa and MultiChoice Kenya have announced a partnership to bring DStv content to off-grid households in Kenya. The partnership bundles Azuri’s recently-announced TV400 product, the 32″ solar powered TV and household energy solution, with the DStv HD decoder to offer customers […]