Italian broadcaster Mediaset’s delivered better-than-expected Q3 results with its Italian revenue beating the market’s consensus by some 3 per cent. No Full Year 2o20 guidance was provided, but the trend appears to be supportive. Its core financials for Q3 saw group revenue rise by 2 per cent year on year to €556 million. Breaking down […]
Sky Italia and Italian commercial network Mediaset are reportedly nearing a deal to retain the majority of UEFA Champions League and Europa League rights in the country. As previously reported, Amazon looks set to acquire the first pick of Wednesday night games from the European club football competition’s in Italy, paying €80 million per season. […]
Amazon is reportedly set to acquire a significant Champions League package in Italy, where it will stream the games on its Prime Video platform. Amazon is set to pay €80 million per season to get the first pick of matches on Wednesday evenings – 17 games per season in total – for the 2021 to […]
EE has announced Match Day Experience features on the BT Sport app, which will be inclusive for new customers taking the Full Works iPhone plan with the new 5G iPhone. Through a set of new BT Sport App features that make the most of the UK’s number one 5G network, and optimised for the iPhone […]
Digital media company OneFootball and Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, have announced a digital-first, Free-to-Air (FTA) broadcasting model for all Bundesliga matches in a number of Latin America’s major football markets. With immediate effect, all Bundesliga matches during the 2020-21 season will be broadcast for free across nine countries in […]
Like most other media activities, sports have been under pressure in 2020 – not only due to covid-19, but also from a rights perspective reports Mediavision. Luckily for Nordic sports fans, leagues and tournaments have been able to resume to play and announce winners of the spring seasons. Several major sports rights have been renegotiated […]
DAZN, the sports streaming service, is now available on Vodafone’s GigaTV platform in Germany. The companies say it is the “first of multiple partnerships integrations” anticipated between them as they respond to “customer demand for frictionless, richer viewing experiences”. The DAZN app has launched on the GigaTV 4K Box for cable TV customers, and the […]
All Virgin TV customers will be able to watch this year’s UEFA Champions League and Europa League finals free of charge. Virgin Media is making it easier for British football fans to tune into the action from home this weekend – even if they don’t currently subscribe to BT Sport. Sevilla will play Inter Milan […]
Virgin Media abruptly halted eir Sport’s broadcast of its Champions quarter-final between Atletico Madrid vs RB Leipzig on August 13th. Virgin Media, which owns the rights to show Champions League games on Irish television, tweeted: “We have suspended our supply of Virgin Media Sport and Virgin Media Sport Extra to eir Sport because eir has […]
BT Sport will broadcast knockout games from the 2019/20 UEFA Women’s Champions League, with extensive coverage from its studios anchored by Clare Balding. BT Sport’s quarter finals coverage kicks off on August 21st with an all-Spanish match between Atletico Madrid, who boast England’s Toni Duggan among their ranks, and last year’s European finalists, Barcelona, Duggan’s […]