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Deltatre renews agreement with Hero Indian Super League

Deltatre, the global player in fan-first experiences, has renewed its agreement with the Hero Indian Super League for the 2021/22 season – and will provide its best-in-class broadcast graphics solution to the league throughout the competition. The agreement builds on the successful deployments initiated between the parties during the previous two seasons. It also reflects on the […]

December 3, 2021

T20 World Cup delivers record viewership

Cricket and sports fans across the world enjoyed unparalleled coverage of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021, when the tournament returned after five years. The event, the biggest ever cricket tournament to be staged in the UAE and Oman, broke viewership records in several regions, including garnering a record television reach of 167 million, […]

November 26, 2021By Colin Mann

Analyst: ‘D2C unlikely for top-flight football’

Although a number of sports have benefited from the arrival of OTT players and the introduction of direct-to-consumer services, the prospect of some of the leading properties, such as the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, adopting pure D2C strategies remains unlikely, according to Jacopo Genovese, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis. Addressing […]

November 16, 2021Colin Mann @ SportsPro OTT Summit

BT Sport retains the Ashes

BT Sport has renewed its UK rights deal to broadcast Australian men’s and women’s home cricket internationals until 2025, including the exclusive broadcast of four England tours over the next four years. Cricket fans will be able to catch England in action as they look to recapture the Ashes later this year, as well as […]

November 8, 2021

Etisalat, Starzplay to air ICC T20 World Cup in MENA

Etisalat, a telecom groups in emerging markets, has won the rights from Star TV Network to broadcast the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup across the MENA region, in partnership with Starzplay, MENA region SVoD service. The broadcast rights for the MENA belong exclusively to Etisalat and the partnership with Starzplay will give cricket fans access […]

October 6, 2021

BT Sport to air Hero Caribbean Premier League cricket

BT Sport has secured a multi-year agreement to broadcast every ball of the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League. The three-week cricket tournament starts on August 26th. The broadcast adds to BT Sport’s multi-year agreement to broadcast all domestic and international cricket from the West Indies, which has already seen South Africa, Australia and Pakistan tour […]

August 25, 2021By Nik Roseveare

ECB: “Over 16m watched The Hundred”

The Hundred has proved a hit among new and existing cricket fans – with a total of 16.1 million people watching some of the action on TV alone, according to figures published by the ECB (English Cricket Board). A sell-out crowd at Lord’s on August 20th and 21st saw Oval Invincibles being crowned the first […]

August 24, 2021

Gravity Media’s HelmetCam steps up to the crease for The Hundred cricket

Gravity Media – a global provider of live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors – has been debuting its new Globecam speciality cameras unit across grounds in England and Wales this summer at The Hundred cricket tournament. Gravity Media’s Globecam unit is renowned for creating ground-breaking, high-definition digital miniature live […]

August 19, 2021

BT Sport set to renew Ashes rights

BT Sport is reportedly set to announce that is has acquired the live broadcast rights for this winter’s Ashes cricket series having outbid its main rival Sky Sports. BT Sport paid £80 million (€94m) to acquire all Cricket Australia’s UK rights for 2016 to 2021, and are close to extending that deal, according to a […]

August 16, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Sky Sports, The Hundred unveil new tech to enhance the spectator experience

The Hundred (a new 100-ball cricket competition) and Sky Sports have joined forces to develop an industry-first augmented reality experience on a scale never before seen in sport by creating avatars using motion capture. Sky and The Hundred have captured players’ full range of movement in accurate detail, which will be used to enhance Sky’s […]

July 19, 2021