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BT Sport has struck a deal with Premiership Rugby that will see it air every game that is played behind closed doors for the rest of the season after the league’s resumption. 
Media Ice Hockey

Belarusian telecoms operator Beltelecom has retained broadcast rights to the country’s top-tier ice hockey league in a new agreement with the Belarusian Ice Hockey Association (BIHA).
Media Football

Football media platform OneFootball is to broadcast free coverage of Korea’s K League to users in France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Brazil in a deal with Sportradar, the agency that was last year appointed t…
Industry Moves Multi-Sport

DAZN Group, the global sports subscription service and media company, has undertaken a reshuffle of its executive team and will look to develop more non-live content as it continues to respond to the sizeable…
Media Multi-Sport

Kevin Durant's business company Thirty Five Ventures has partnered with premium podcast company Cadence13 to create The Boardroom Podcast Network.
Finance & Law Multi-Sport

Prominent media company misses analyst targets
Media Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has extended its rights deal with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to cover domestic women’s club competitions.
Media Football

LaLiga has finalised an agreement for the sale of its French-language media rights in sub-Saharan Africa with pay-television broadcaster StarTimes
Media Football

Uefa has commissioned German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland to produce the crowd noise sound effects for this month’s Champions League and Europa League ‘Final 8’ tournaments. W

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SportBusiness reports back from the APOS 2020 Virtual Series, the online incarnation of the leading Asia-Pacific media, telecoms and entertainment industry conference hosted by Media Partners Asia.
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SportBusiness speaks to Jamie Hindhaugh, chief operating officer of BT Sport, who says that in the light of Covid-19, remote production points the way towards the broadcaster’s future
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The business of Brazilian club football is a minefield at the best of times, but a temporary change to the law by the country’s president Jair Bolsonaro has made it even trickier, especially for dominant media giant, Globo.
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What previously were just MLB practice sessions unseen by fans have become an important source of content for clubs and their regional sports networks, and have helped broadcast production crews prepare for the regular season
Media Multi-Sport

Subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports is plotting a return to the UK, albeit via an entirely different model to the one adopted during the short-lived entry to the market that was ultimately scuppered…
Industry Moves Horse Racing

Richard FitzGerald has stepped down as chief executive of Racecourse Media Group, the media and data rights holding company for 34 British racecourses, after nearly 12 years in the position
Media Multi-Sport

Chinese tech giant Tencent is said to be pressing for a merger of China’s biggest game-streaming platforms Huya and DouYu.
Media Football

Streaming platform DAZN has exited its deal in Brazil for the Copa Sudamericana competition, following on from the news that it has dropped the Italian Serie A from its programming output in the South…
Media Esports

Esports organisations DreamHack and ESL have agreed a new three-year broadcast deal in Brazil, awarding rights to commercial broadcaster Globo and entertainment streaming platform Omelete
Media Multi-Sport

A dramatic fall in advertising caused by the Covid-19 pandemic led to a 23-per-cent drop in second-quarter revenues at the international division of Discovery, the US-based media group that owns pan-European…
Media Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed martial arts organization Professional Fighters League has launched a new direct-to-consumer streaming service, called the PFL MMA app
Media Motorsport

German automotive manufacturer Mercedes has launched a dedicated channel on Motorsport.tv, the OTT streaming platform operated by digital media group Motorsport Network
Media Multi-Sport

US media company NBCUniversal is set to lay off a number of employees amid restructuring plans and the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
Media Football

Indonesian OTT and pay-television platform Mola TV has acquired media rights for German Bundesliga football in a five-year deal from 2020-21 to 2024-25, SportBusiness can reveal
Finance & Law Multi-Sport

The Walt Disney Co.’s streaming success during the last quarter, in part through ESPN+, help counter what was otherwise a historically poor quarter for the company.
Media Multi-Sport

France’s new Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot has temporarily reprieved public broadcaster France Télévisions’ France 4 channel from closure. F
Media Football

The Asian Football Confederation has agreed a media-rights deal in five central Asian countries with the Saran Media agency
Events Tennis

World TeamTennis's quarantined summer tournament at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia ended on a high note with record domestic television ratings for the event's finals at the weekend
Media Mixed Martial Arts

Russian agency Telesport has agreed a multi-year deal to broadcast the mixed martial arts promotion Professional Fighters League
Media Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 is to offer its coverage of the 2019-20 Uefa Champions League final in ultra high-definition, as part of an expanded commitment to the format
Media Football

Online betting operator Bwin has secured betting streaming rights in Belgium to the country’s top-tier Jupiler Pro League as part of a wider sponsorship agreement.
Media Basketball

Alternate broadcast will feature odds, expert analysis
Media Football

The Croatian Football Association (HNS) has finalised a 10-year broadcast rights and production deal with the UK-based company Endorphin Magine Ltd, a newly-created entity with links to Swedish OTT solutions…
Media Esports

Esports organisations ESL and DreamHack have agreed a rights deal with Chinese streaming platform DouYu
Media Horse Racing

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has renewed its exclusive free-to-air broadcast rights deal for British horse-racing events until 2023 after protracted negotiations
Industry Moves Multi-Sport

The Norwegian branch of international media group Discovery has appointed Morten Johannessen as its new sports director following on from a stint serving as acting director of sport for the last year
Media Football

Subscription streaming service DAZN has signed off on its acquisition of Uefa Champions League rights in Germany for the new three-season cycle, from 2021-22 to 2023-24
Media Football

The CAA Eleven agency is to offer broadcasters the opportunity to bid for rights to both the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Uefa European Championship tournaments, SportBusiness understands, as it goes…