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BeIN Sports France's hold of exclusive LaLiga rights comes with the property sure to enjoy a surge in interest in Kylian Mbappé’s home country following his high-profile move to Real Madrid.

The new World Athletics Ultimate Championship, a biennial event that currently sits outside the federation’s existing rights agreements, will give organisers “more skin in the game” in terms of inventory, according to the body’s president Sebastian Coe.

Jonathan Davis has become the latest DAZN media rights executive to join Peak Sport Media, the joint venture set up a year ago by Spain’s LaLiga and Simon Denyer’s Ocho Sport Advisory company.

TrueVisions has secured rights to all matches from Euro 2024, with the Thai pay-TV broadcaster having also shown all matches from the previous edition in a last-minute deal.

The broadcast of England’s test match against Japan on June 22 on an OTT streaming platform will represent a landmark shift after the World Rugby-owned RugbyPass TV secured rights in the UK and Ireland.

Nova has retained rights in the Czech Republic to the Uefa Champions League, completing its set of European club competition rights for the 2024-27 cycle.

ITV will continue to show EFL highlights for the next three seasons, SportBusiness understands, as it prepares to add live Championship and Carabao Cup matches to its schedules.

Sports streaming service FuboTV has agreed a deal with Willow by Cricbuzz to offer streaming and on-demand cricket on its service ahead of next month's ICC men's T20 World Cup

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is expected to re-start the Ligue 2 domestic rights sales process next week as negotiations around rights to the top tier continue to drag on just 78 days b…

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster bTV and Telekom Austria-owned telco A1 have renewed their rights in Bulgaria to Uefa club competitions, ahead of the current three-year deals ending this Saturday with the Champions League final. 

Warner Bros. Discovery has retained exclusive rights to Wimbledon in 11 European markets in a play designed to drive consumers to its new Max streaming service being rolled out across the continent

This summer's Uefa European Championship will receive blanket coverage in Russia following deals struck with Match TV, the Gazprom Media-owned broadcaster, and subscription streaming platform Okko

Ironman has become the latest property to which DAZN has secured broadcast rights in most global markets in a two-year deal that will see coverage showcased on the broadcaster’s free, ad-supported tier.

Viaplay Group has ended a tumultuous 12 months by strengthening its position as the dominant football broadcaster in its home Nordics region, picking up exclusive Uefa Champions League rights in Sweden and retaining its contract in Denmark.

A host of non-exclusive free-to-air highlights packages have been put out to tender by Lega Serie A as it looks to round off its domestic sales process for the coming seasons

Bundesliga International has turned to Infront to manage media rights sales in 10 mainly Central and Eastern European countries in the agency's third multi-territory distribution deal in quick succession with a major European league.

The appointment of Sunset+Vine to a three-year rights distribution contract builds on its consultancy work with the FEI, a federation whose media rights strategy focuses on providing exposure for sponsors.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is close to agreeing a sublicensing deal with Sky Sports for around 20 English Football League matches per season