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 […]
UEFA has selected Mediapro Group as the host broadcaster for the production and distribution of the host signal for the final phases of the Champions League which, after the stoppage due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will bring together for the first time in its history the quarter-final and semi-final matches, in a single-match format, and […]
Simon Green, Head of BT Sport, believes one of the lasting impacts of the coronavirus pandemic will be a decrease in the value of television sports rights, which in the past 3 decades have risen considerably and consistently. Green, speaking to The Guardian, said: “I personally believe that Covid-19 will cause a correction in the […]
DAZN Group has announced a series of leadership appointments to ready the business for the debut of its global streaming service and a renewed focus on its original markets. “With DAZN’s paying subscriber base
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has secured exclusive live and on-demand rights for the UEFA Champions League in Germany for three seasons from 2021/22 to 2023/24. Together with DAZN’s recent landmark agreement to show 106 Bundesliga matches per season for four seasons from 2021, DAZN will stream live and exclusive coverage of top-flight football in […]
BT Sport has announced its plans for ‘Club 2020’ as the UEFA Champions League and Europa League return on August 5th. The finals of both competitions will once again be available for free on YouTube. Club 2020 will provide fans a knockout tournament featuring 26 games in just 19 days. All games will be broadcast […]
ViacomCBS and UEFA, the governing body of European football, have announced the details of a multi-platform agreement for CBS All Access and CBS Sports to serve as the exclusive English-language home in the US of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League through 2024, beginning this August. CBS All Access, […]