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Serie A broadcasts AC Milan-Fiorentina game in metaverse
Event is a first involving a major football league
Reagan Carey on the new era for the Premier Hockey Federation
In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Reagan Carey, the new commissioner of the Premier Hockey Federation. Fisher and Russo also discuss ongoing turbulence in United States college sports with the forthcoming departure of Mark Emmert from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and predictions of a breakup of Division I athletics, Athletes Unlimited’s media rights deal with ESPN, a $300m funding round for German digital sports media entity OneFootball, viewership boosts for the National Hockey League, and Comcast’s successful programming link of the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVI and Beijing 2022 Olympics.
PFL, gaming platform Rival collaborate on gaming community
Gaming platform development company adds to roster of sports partners
Choice the watchword as F1 hospitality bounces back post-pandemic
Keith Bruce, president of Quint International, the operator of the Formula 1 Experiences hospitality programme, believes the motorsport will generate record hospitality revenues during its 2022 season thanks to the addition of new races, a pent-up demand for live events, and the marketing impact of the Netflix Drive to Survive series.
Super Bowl-Beijing Olympics combo pays off for Comcast
Quarterly results show sharp increases in overall revenue, advertising sales, Peacock subscriptions
Pitch adds women’s matches to expanded Cricket Ireland rights deal
Sports marketing agency Pitch International has signed a new five-year broadcast deal with the Cricket Ireland national governing body
Digital sports fashion company Fancurve backed by industry executives
Fancurve, a blockchain-enabled digital sports fashion company, has launched with $6.25m (€5.9
On Location, Endeavor China now wholly owned by Endeavor
Equity conversions said to 'streamline management, create operational efficiencies'
Sport 24’s Wise: In-flight/in-ship market back to 50 per cent of pre-pandemic levels
The in-flight and in-ship market has recovered to 50 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, according to Richard Wise, head of the IMG agency’s Sport 24 service.
Vodafone Business to drive technology innovation for Extreme E
Off-road electric racing series Extreme E has agreed a new deal with the business arm of UK telecommunications company Vodafone
OneFootball raises $300m from investors, forms blockchain JV
OneFootball, the football-focused streaming and media platform, has closed a $300m (€285m) Series D funding round led by the New York-based Liberty City Ventures and has also created a blockchain technology j…
Four candidates to contest race for ISU presidency
The International Skating Union has announced that four candidates will compete to assume the presidency that is set to be vacated by Jan Dijkema
In-flight rights market less competitive than before, says Sport 24’s Wise
In this video interview, Richard Wise, senior vice president and head of content and channels for IMG Media, says the agency's Sport 24 in-flight and in-ship channel is bouncing back as international travel…
FIA stalls F1 sprint race expansion plans
Formula 1’s plans to increase the number of sprint events to six from 2023 have suffered a blow after the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said an evaluation of the proposal still needs to be c…
Kinexon raises $130m in funding round
German tracking and analytics company Kinexon has secured $130m (€122m) in a Series A funding round led by private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL).
Zaslav: don’t expect Warner Bros. Discovery spending spree
CEO of newly merged company stresses financial discipline in call with analysts
Beijing 2022 drives Discovery’s 25-per-cent Q1 revenue uplift
Media group Warner Bros. Discovery has reported a 25-per-cent first-quarter revenue increase at its international operations, thanks in part to Discovery’s broadcast of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
Viaplay adds 778,000 to global subscriber total, confident of dodging Netflix-style dip
The launch of Viaplay in the Netherlands helped the streaming service add 778,000 new subscribers to its global total in the first quarter of this year