La Liga football will be shown in the UK on Premier Sports from now until the end of the 2021-22 season. All matches will be broadcast live on new channel LaLigaTV, apart from games that kick off at 3pm UK time, which will be shown on delay. In addition, free-to-air channel FreeSports will broadcast select […]
Eurosport has agreed a deal with the Global Association of International Sports Federations [GAISF] to broadcast live coverage from the inaugural World Urban Games Budapest 2019. Coverage of the World Urban Games on Eurosport and Eurosport Player ensures that live action from the BMX freestyle, 3×3 basketball and breaking finals will be screened in over […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a national free-to-air broadcaster in Australia, have announced a multiyear partnership to broadcast live NBA and WNBA games to a nationwide audience. Beginning with the 2019-20 NBA season, SBS will broadcast two live, regular-season NBA games per week […]
ZEE5, the digital entertainment platform from ZEE Entertainment Enterprises, has announced a partnership with Lebara Australia to bring the largest library of entertainment content for South Asians to Lebara customers down under. Available in 17 different languages, ZEE5 offers subscribers 100,000 hours of on demand movies, Originals, TV programmes, videos and news content. From September, […]
Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, has claimed a new TV rights deal for the UK and Ireland will be in place before the season’s fourth weekend of fixtures (September 13th). Having failed to agree a long-term media rights deal before the start of the 2019/20 season, the Spanish top-flight football league signed a […]
Award-winning writer, director, and producer Patty Jenkins has agreed a multi-year overall deal to produce new series exclusively at Netflix. “We’re thrilled to welcome Patty Jenkins to Netflix. Her trailblazing work has pushed boundaries and she confidently tells stories that leave an unforgettable mark. We look forward to fostering her many ideas and helping them […]
B/R Live, the US streaming service, has signed a partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the 2019 Champions League finalists, to become their US streaming partner for the Club’s International Programming Block. Spurs TV, the Club’s weekly highlights programme, will be broadcast exclusively on B/R Live for the duration of the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. […]
Eurosport, Discovery’s sports brand, has added the exclusive rights for WTA tournaments to its tennis portfolio in Russia. The new agreement comes in to effect from January 2020 and will see Eurosport cover every major WTA event for the next four years, with up to 47 tournaments worldwide and more than 800 matches produced for […]
Major League Soccer’s championship match will return to the ABC Television Network in the US for the first time since 2008 when ESPN presents the 2019 MLS Cup on November 10th. The match will also be streamed live on both the ESPN and ABC apps. ABC, the broadcast network of the Walt Disney Company, was […]
A US federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eight individuals with conspiring to violate federal criminal copyright law by running two of the largest unauthorised streaming services in the United States, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars by television programme and motion picture copyright owners. According to the indictment, Kristopher Lee […]