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CBS Sports scores Scottish football

CBS Sports and Infront have announced a multi-year agreement for CBS Sports and Paramount+ to become the exclusive US home of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). CBS Sports will present at least 85 matches annually through 2024-2025 from the cinch Premiership – the top division of the SPFL – as well as the second-division […]

July 29, 2021

DFB-Pokal on Premier Sports

Premier Sports has  secured the rights to the German Cup, the DFB-Pokal, this season with live coverage kicking off on August 6th as Bremer SV host twenty time winner of the competition, Bayern Munich. On August 7th Premier Sports will broadcast current DFB-Pokal champions Borrusia Dortmund when they face Wehen Wiesbaden with kick off at […]

July 29, 2021

Court OKs Canal+ beIN contract break

The Tribunal de Commerce de Nanterre (Nanterre Commercial Court) has authorised Canal+ to suspend the sublicensing contract with beIN Sports and to interrupt its payments for the broadcasting of two French top-flight Ligue 1 football matches. The court said, nevertheless, that these payments should resume if the Qatari channel were to sue the Professional Football […]

July 26, 2021

90min named Team GB Women’s Football content partner

Football community, 90min, has been selected as the official home for GB Women’s Football team content, which includes creation and distribution. As a part of this partnership, 90min is the only media outlet on the ground and in the training camp with GB Women’s Football, capturing content leading up to the Olympic Games, which will […]

July 21, 2021

Globo, WSC Sports bring AI highlights to football in Brazil

Globo, the mass media group in Latin America, and WSC Sports, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sports video technology, have announced a partnership to bring automated real-time video highlights and sports content to soccer fans in Brazil across Globo’s digital properties, streaming and social media. Globo will be using WSC Sports’ full suite […]

July 21, 2021

Open Broadcast Systems, MSTV Live Broadcasting, Nemeton TV deliver football via 4G

Open Broadcast Systems has worked with MSTV Live Broadcasting and Nemeton TV to deliver pre-season football matches from major Russian football teams via 4G to satellite. The first match was successfully delivered on June 28th. MSTV is working to deliver live coverage of all pre-season matches for  FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Spartak Moscow, and FC Zenit. The matches, taking place in Austria, […]

July 15, 2021

Burnley FC Women matches on TikTok

Burnley Football Club and TikTok have agreed a partnership which will see the Club livestream every home match of Burnley FC Women’s 2021/22 season as part of a multi-year deal. Burnley FC Women will become the first team to have their games streamed live on TikTok – which will also become the team’s sleeve sponsor […]

July 2, 2021

QPR signs with Recast

Supporters of Queens Park Rangers (QPR) can now directly fund the club by watching live matches, highlights, interviews and behind the scenes content featuring club players and staff through a partnership with Recast. The West London football team are the latest team to join OTT platform Recast in a bid to provide new opportunities for […]

July 1, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Foxtel, beIN Sports extend rights deal

The Foxtel Group and beIN Sports have announced an extension to their partnership with a new multi-year agreement providing coverage of the best in European football, Northern Hemisphere rugby and international tennis to watch on Foxtel and stream on Kayo. beIN Sports will continue to deliver premium football, tennis and rugby content including: Football – […]

June 28, 2021

Japan: DAZN scores AFC Champions League rights

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has entered into an agreement with global sports streaming service DAZN to be the exclusive media rights partner to broadcast the next eight seasons of the AFC Champions League. The deal will see DAZN provide comprehensive coverage of Asia’s premier club competition to fans in Japan, beginning with the Group […]

June 21, 2021