Frank Dunne

Unprecedented inventory gives Fifa strong bargaining position with brands in renewal talks Governing body seeking to at least double its sponsorship revenues post-2022

Fifa, world football’s governing body, today (Tuesday) launched a free, ad-funded streaming service which will carry over 40,000 live international and club matches per year, all Fifa archive content a…

Growth in value of football rights in US still only ‘near the beginning’ International Champions Cup will ‘no longer play Santa Claus’ with ‘disproportionate’ rights fees Events a

The Last Dance and Drive to Survive raised the bar in sports documentary making. But as rights-holders from golf to tennis follow the path of F1 with behind-the-scenes series, SportBusiness asks filmmakers and broadcasters whether the so-called golden age of non-live sports production risks becoming a factory of formulaic TV.

The common denominator in the major success stories for private equity investment in sport is ownership and control of the property, according to Michel Masquelier, the former chairman of IMG Media

Michel Masquelier, former chairman of IMG Media, talks exclusively to SportBusiness about the lessons learned from 35 years in the industry, the value of private equity investments in sport and why the increasingly sophisticated nature of the sports and entertainment industries is good news for agencies.

In an exclusive video interview filmed at The Square, DAZN’s new production facility outside Milan, Veronica Diquattro, the media company's chief revenue officer Europe, talks to SportBusiness about the platform’s first season as the primary broadcaster of the Italian football league, Serie A, and its wider ambitions.

Technical problems which blighted DAZN’s Serie A coverage earlier this season ‘now resolved’ Rights strategy to stay market-specific, despite global boxing and Women’s Champions League deals Betti

Over the last five years, sport’s major governing bodies have integrated human rights into their decision-making processes. But for human rights campaigners, there is a lack of transparency around these processes which makes it impossible to assess how they are being applied, or indeed if they are being adhered to at all. Frank Dunne reports.

In his first major interview since the collapse of the media rights deals for France’s Ligue 1 and Italy’s Serie A, Mediapro founder Jaume Roures strongly defends the company’s approach in both markets and insists that neither deal fell through on concerns about Mediapro guarantees.