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Channel 4 acquires England football matches

England’s matches in the UEFA Nations League, European Qualifiers to UEFA Euro 2024 and International Friendlies will be shown live on Channel 4 following the announcement of a new two year deal. Six England games will be shown live on Channel 4 this year starting with their away match against Hungary at Puskas Arena Park […]

April 29, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Viaplay scores Swedish football rights

Viaplay and the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) have agreed a four-year partnership that makes Viaplay the exclusive home of a wide range of popular football rights in Sweden. From 2025, Viaplay will show approximately 800 live matches spanning the women’s national team, the men’s and women’s Swedish Cup, and national youth teams and national futsal […]

April 8, 2022

Friend MTS scores UEFA anti-piracy deal

Content protection services provider Friend MTS has recently been appointed by European football governing body UEFA to provide anti-piracy services in respect of all major UEFA competitions (across both Club and National Team). Friend MTS will provide UEFA with an array of services, including monitoring and enforcement, to combat piracy in all of its forms […]

April 7, 2022By Colin Mann

New hires for Gravity Media’s EMEA business development team

As part of the ongoing global expansion of Gravity Media, the EMEA Business Development team led by Director of BD, Blair Wood, has continued its investment in the best broadcast and media talent hiring Beth Lowney as Business Development Manager, Claire Downey as Technical Producer – Proposals, as well as internal promotions for Katie Tookey as Proposals Manager […]

March 30, 2022

Spark Sport delivers live experiences with Amagi

Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has partnered with Spark Sport, a New Zealand-based premium sport streaming service, to provide content aggregation and playout services for their OTT linear channel, Spark Sport 1. Spark Sport offers live and on-demand sports content including the English Premier League, UEFA football, […]

March 4, 2022

Sports Bodies raise concern over Kenya Copyright Bill

A coalition of global sports bodies has written an open letter to the Kenyan government, expressing concern about the Copyright Amendment Bill currently before parliament, and its potential impact on the availability of international sports content in Kenya.The Sports Rights Owner Coalition (SROC) is an alliance of more than 50 international and national sport bodies, […]

February 15, 2022

Two Circles acquires LiveWire Sport

Two Circles has announced the acquisition of LiveWire Sport – the agency delivering content for the Premier League, Wimbledon, World Rugby and the ECB. LiveWire will become the content vertical of Two Circles – led by LiveWire co-founders Andy McKenzie, Caroline Cheese, Dan Warren, Jonathan Stevenson and Pranav Soneji – taking Two Circles’ headcount across […]

February 9, 2022

fuboTV scores UEFA rights with FOX Sports assist

Sports-first live TV streaming platform fuboTV has secured exclusive US rights through a six-year sub-licence with FOX Sports to stream select matches from Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The deal kicks off with the UEFA Nations League in June 2022. The agreement further strengthens fuboTV’s leading position as a sports-first live TV streaming platform […]

January 25, 2022

AMC Networks renews Slovakia, Czech deals

AMC Networks International (AMCNI) and Slovak Telekom Group’s Magio and Digi Slovakia as well as T-Mobile TV Czech Republic, subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom, have announced a multi-year renewal of their distribution agreement. The strategic agreement builds on the companies’ long-term partnership by providing carriage of AMCNI channels Sport1, Sport2, AMC, Film+, Minimax, JimJam, Spektrum and […]

January 20, 2022

Sport1, Sport2 acquire Slovakia national football matches

UEFA and AMC Networks International – Central and Northern Europe (AMCNI – CNE), which operates Sport1 and Sport2, has reached an agreement for the broadcast of Slovakia’s national football matches exclusively live on Sport1 from 2022-2028. In addition, AMCNI – CNE has secured a package of European Qualifiers and UEFA Nations League matches for a […]

November 12, 2021