Canal+ has reportedly struck an agreement with the French football league LFP over the 2020-2021 television rights. Reports in French sports newspaper L’Equipe, and business paper Les Echos say that the agreement includes all games from Ligue 1 and eight games from Ligue 2. The price of the rights is reported to be between €650 […]
BT Sport has announced a host of new exclusive cricket content including England men’s and women’s tours of the West Indies and New Zealand. BT Sport will also show all men’s and women’s domestic and international cricket in West Indies and New Zealand. BT Sport has already begun broadcasting cricket from New Zealand, including the […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has secured a variety of football rights for its Viaplay streaming service in the Baltic countries, including the exclusive rights to the FA Cup until 2024. NENT Group will launch Viaplay in the Baltics on March 9th. NENT Group has acquired the English Cup-tournaments (FA Cup […]
Universal Music has removed all of its tracks from video sharing app Triller after alleging payments are being withheld to its artists. Triller, a TikTok rival, allows users to create and share short videos, often set to music. The move means that songs from global superstars including Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Lana […]
PURE ETCR has announced that the all-electric multi-brand touring car championship will be broadcast free-to-air in New Zealand in 2021 on Three. Three, part of Discovery Group, is the home of motorsport on TV for New Zealand’s five-million population, screening action from across the spectrum every week, from Monster Trucks to the popular NZ V8 […]
Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series, has confirmed a partnership with Chinese sports content app Douyin. As of August 2020, Douyin had over 600 million daily active users and 700,000 sports content creators. This huge community publish over 1.5 million pieces of content per day covering a diverse range of sports, which in […]
beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment group, has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020 on beIN Sports across 24 countries in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). This edition of the FIFA Club World Cup will see 6 teams compete in two world-class stadiums in […]
LFP has admitted failure in the re-tender process for French football league 1 and 2 rights. The bidding was opened following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal in December 2020 but was doomed when Canal+ boycotted the process. Bids from rivals Amazon, DAZN and Eurosport failed to reach the reserve price. The LFP now is giving […]
Channel 4 has acquired the rights to show England’s Test cricket series in India in a deal that means Test cricket will return to free-to-air television in the UK for the first time in over 15 years. Global rights holders Star Sports, owned by Disney, and Channel 4 have agreed a contract for the live […]
Sky Sports has announced a new multi-year broadcast partnership with England Netball. This new agreement will see every match of the Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) 2021 season broadcast across Sky Sports and England Netball platforms, giving the competition its greatest visibility to date. The Vitality Netball Superleague will be returning on February 12th featuring 11 […]