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TelevisaUnivision partners with LTN

LTN, a player in transformative media technology and video transport solutions, has partnered with leading Spanish-language media and content company, TelevisaUnivision, bringing customised live sports streaming experiences to international viewers. TelevisaUnivision harnesses LTN Arc, LTN’s fully managed production service that simplifies live event versioning at scale for digital audiences to deliver live sports events for […]

April 11, 2023

Zig Zag wins recommission for The Football Academy

Indie production company Zig Zag has secured a recommission from CBBC for its access-all-areas documentary series, The Football Academy Season 2 (15×30). Returning to Southampton Football Club and with unparalleled access to young players from both the girls’ and boys’ teams, their families and their inspirational coaches, The Football Academy builds on the gripping stories […]

April 4, 2023

DAZN, J.League extend rights deal

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and J.League, the Japanese professional football league have extended their broadcast partnership until 2023. The deal is based on similar profit-sharing model to DAZN’s recently announced NFL partnership. DAZN Group CEO, Shay Segev – who flew to Tokyo to sign the deal – commented: “Launched as our first market in […]

March 31, 2023By Nik Roseveare

Women’s National Football Conference on DAZN

The Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC) has announced the launch of wSCORE, a direct-to-consumer streaming service going live to air all games for the upcoming 2023 season. Additionally, the WNFC has announced a streaming deal with DAZN, the global sports entertainment platform, securing additional access to live WNFC matches for audiences around the world. “Creating […]

March 31, 2023

DAZN to air NWSL

DAZN Group, the sports entertainment platform, has acquired the non-exclusive broadcasting rights to the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) for the 2023 season in its key markets including Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, UK, France, Belgium, Portugal, Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden), Brazil and the Netherlands. The deal sees DAZN broadcast the NWSL Regular Season, […]

March 24, 2023

Italy: Mola scores Brasileirão rights; MMA investment

Mola has added content from Brasileirão, the Brazilian football league, to its roster of sports content in Italy. Mola will broadcast more than 300 games from the Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, Recopa Sudamericana and will also be adding in weekly games from Argentina’s Primera Division this year. Mola is also the home of fight sports […]

March 7, 2023

Sky sees record audience for Carabao Cup final

The Carabao Cup Final was watched by a record audience of 4.26 million people on Sky Sports in the UK, as Erik Ten Hag’s Manchester United overcame the challenge of Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United, to win 2-0 and lift the Carabao Cup for a sixth time. The peak audience was 60,000 higher than the previous […]

March 2, 2023

DAZN: “Madrid loves Madrid”

Ahead of the February 25th league clash between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid, DAZN, the sports streaming platform, wanted to respond to those who try to sow hatred in football, and in society in general, with a clear message: “Madrid loves Madrid”. The banner has been placed on the same bridge where a similar […]

February 24, 2023

Netflix teams with La Liga for docuseries

La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, will be the centre of the first sports docuseries that Netflix will produce in the country. The series, currently in pre-production, will focus on the 2023-2024 La Liga Competition, and will be launched globally on Netflix in 2024. Similar to Netflix’s growing slate of sports programming such as […]

February 17, 2023By Nik Roseveare

Portugal: NOS enables virtual group watching

NOS is the first operator in Portugal to launch a feature that enables the watching of TV programmes in a group, in a virtual room. Available in the NOS TV App, Group View allows NOS TV subscribers to invite up to four other waccounts and simultaneously watch a TV programme, while being able to talk […]

February 10, 2023From Branislav Pekic in Rome