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ESPN premieres Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League

ESPN today premiered Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League exclusively on the ESPN App. Origin documents the creation and launch of the NBA’s first collaboration to operate a league outside North America, a pan-African professional basketball league in partnership with FIBA featuring 12 top club teams from across Africa’s 54 countries competing in […]

February 11, 2026

Euroleague Basketball appoints Sportian to combat piracy

Euroleague Basketball has announced a collaboration with the anti-piracy affiliate of Sportian to protect its competitions against piracy and boost the integrity of its international broadcast offering. Using Piracy Guard services, Euroleague Basketball will be able to automatically detect, report and remove illegal broadcasts across IPTV, web and mobile app platforms. By collaborating with Sportian, […]

December 16, 2025

beIN extends NBA deal across MENA

beIN Media Group has announced the renewal of its broadcast partnership with the NBA to air games across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The renewal builds on beIN and the NBA’s 17-year collaboration. beIN has held the rights to the NBA in MENA since 2008. The renewed agreement includes regular-season games, NBA Playoffs, […]

November 20, 2025

DAZN scores US college sports deal with Big Ten, Fox Sports

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a multi-year agreement with the Big Ten Network and Fox Sports to bring an expanded slate of US college sports content to fans around the world (excluding the US). Beginning this season, DAZN will stream all regular season football games, as well as the 2025 Discover Big Ten […]

October 10, 2025

Sky Sports nets 11 year NBA deal

Starting this season, Sky Sports will air over 100 live NBA games per season in the UK and Ireland. The deal follows NBCUniversal – which, like Sky, is owned by Comcast – acquiring extensive rights across North America to the top-flight US basketball league in 2024. Live coverage on Sky Sports is underway with a […]

October 3, 2025By Nik Roseveare

DAZN nets acb basketball deal

The acb has announced an deal with DAZN that grants the sports streaming platform the rights to broadcast all Liga Endesa, Supercopa Endesa, and Copa del Rey games for the next five seasons. The agreement includes broadcasting rights for five seasons in the US, MENA, Italy, France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Taiwan and Japan; […]

September 4, 2025

Prime Video unveils inaugural 2025-26 NBA schedule

Prime Video has announced 67 of the regular-season games for the inaugural season of the NBA on Prime as the NBA unveiled the full 2025-26 regular-season schedule. NBA on Prime tips off with a doubleheader on October 25th at 00:30 BST when the New York Knicks host the Boston Celtics followed by the Minnesota Timberwolves […]

August 15, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Lega Basket Serie A, Deltatre partnership

Deltatre, a provider of streaming, digital, data and graphics solutions, has announced a five-year partnership with Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) to develop and run all aspects of LBA’s production and operations, third-party distribution, and DTC OTT offering. Ahead of the 2025–26 LBA season, Deltatre will deliver a refreshed distribution strategy into strategic third-party partners, […]

August 8, 2025

Deltatre, LNP relaunch LNP Pass

Deltatre, a provider of streaming, digital, data, and graphics solutions for the sports, media, and entertainment industries, has partnered with Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP) to launch a fully revamped, next-generation direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform. Deployment of the new LNP Pass marks the beginning of a five-year partnership between Deltatre and LNP aimed at creating a unique […]

August 1, 2025

Spain: Movistar Plus+, EuroLeague extend broadcast deal

Euroleague Basketball has announced the renewal of its longstanding partnership with Movistar Plus+, securing the exclusive broadcast rights of the EuroLeague and non-exclusive rights of the BKT EuroCup in Spain through the 2030-31 season. This five-season extension, secured by Euroleague Basketball’s strategic partner IMG, signed a full year ahead of the current agreement’s expiration, ensures […]

July 11, 2025