Media Rights

Coverage of the major deals surrounding sport media rights

Cyta lands Premier League rights in Cypriot renewal

Cypriot telecommunications provider Cyta has inked a three-year rights renewal with the English Premier League. The agreement, which runs from 2022/23 to 2024/25, will see...

Volleyball World agrees ‘ground-breaking’ partnerships with Italian leagues

Volleyball World has inked ‘ground-breaking’ partnerships with the men’s and women’s Italian Professional Volleyball Leagues - the Lega Pallavolo Serie A Maschile and Lega...

Telekom Srbija locks down Premier League rights in six-year deal

Telekom Srbija-owned Arena Sport has acquired the broadcast rights to the English Premier League in the Balkan region. Under the terms of the six-year deal,...

Sky Sports Racing reveals broadcasting team for inaugural Racing League

Sky Sports Racing has unveiled its ‘stellar’ on-screen talent line-up for the inaugural team-based series, the Racing League. An anchor team of Alex Hammond, Josh...

Grabyo: Sports fans growing ‘impatient’ with lack of streaming alternatives

Three-quarters of sports fans in the UK now want to watch sport exclusively on streaming services, with half of those ready to pay up...

INDYCAR and NBC Sports extend long-running rights agreement

NBC Sports and the NTT INDYCAR Series have extended their multi-year media rights arrangement. NBC Sports will continue to serve as the exclusive home of...

NFL Media recruits three new Vice Presidents to executive structure

NFL Media has appointed Angela Ellis, Sandy Nunez and Tony Cole as new Vice Presidents of the entity which comprises the NFL Network, NFL...

Austrian Bundesliga prompts four-year Sky rights extension

The Austrian Bundesliga will continue to be shown on Sky for the next four years under the terms of a contract extension activated by...

Seven Network cooperates with Twitter for Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage

The Seven Network has partnered with social media platform Twitter ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to bolster the Australian commercial channels’ coverage...

BeIN Sports launches legal action against Canal Plus in Ligue 1...

BeIN Sports has taken legal action against Canal Plus to force the latter to complete its sub-licensing arrangement for the broadcasting rights to the...