L’Équipe, the free-to-air French channel, has secured the rights to broadcast one live NFL game per week during the new season. The deal will see L’Équipe air one regular season game every Sunday on its linear channel and via its digital channels. In total, L’Équipe will show 17 regular-season matches over the course of the […]
DAZN, the sports streaming service, has secured the media rights to show the EHF Champions League and European handball club competitions on the streaming service in Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The new partnership means the men’s and women’s editions of the EHF Champions League as well the EHF European League and EHF European Cup […]
Silverbird Television has agreed a deal to broadcast one live Premier League match per week over the course of the 2020 – 2021 season. This deal was agreed with Integral, the current free-to-air rights holder for the Premier League matches in Nigeria. Integral secured its rights in a sub-licence deal from the Infront Sports & […]
beIN Sports and the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) have announced a new partnership to air the 2020 Fall Championship Tournament from September 21st through October 2nd. The announcement marks the first-ever broadcast partnership for NISA and adds another league to beIN Sports’ sports programming line-up. Games will be aired in the US and Canada […]
With the start of the delayed 2020/21 season days away, the English Premier League has launched anti-piracy media campaigns in Hong Kong and Malaysia. The ‘Boot Out Piracy’ advertising campaign aims to raise awareness of the compromised viewing quality and risks faced by fans watching matches via illegal streams. It will highlight the dangers illegal […]
Duke Mountain Resources has reached an agreement with NBC Sports to present the Xtreme Fighting Championships (XFC) live in the US. “We are pleased to partner with XFC and showcase their action-packed bouts and exciting fighters to fans in the United States,” says Gary Quinn, Vice President, Programming & Owned Properties, NBC Sports. NBCSN will […]
In a new three-year partnership with the National Football League (NFL) and ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI), Channel 5 will bring live Monday Night Football back to free-to-air television and air a brand new Sunday morning magazine programme. The multiplatform deal, made in partnership with Velocity, VCNI’s branded content studio, will also see new and unique […]
Amazon is reportedly considering bidding for the rights to the Eight Nations rugby tournament to boost sporting content on its Prime Video streaming platform. The tournament, which is taking place in November replacing the traditional autumn tours, is up for grabs with Sky Sport’s long-term deal expiring. The Daily Mail reports that Amazon is looking […]
Television-based music entertainment experience ROXi is launching on Sky Q, bringing what it says is an entertaining mix of unlimited music, music games, radio and Karaoke to the living room, all in one place. Until now, ROXi’s music entertainment experience has only been available on ROXi’s dedicated Music Entertainment Console. This is the first time […]
Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of pro-copyright lobbying body Copyright Alliance, has called on the US Congress to lead the way on tackling commercial streaming piracy. Writing an Opinion piece in political website The Hill, Kupferschmid notes that nowadays, three-quarters of American households subscribe to one of the major video streaming services, but when technologies grow this […]