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The Maryland-based owner of local TV stations has rapidly become a major player in the US sports media landscape, and has aggressive goals for more growth.
Cricket
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Cricket South Africa has confirmed the extension of a rights deal with the SABC for the Mzansi Super League, with the cash-strapped public-service broadcaster reportedly paying a rights fee for this year’s e…
Basketball
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The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has revealed that its recent World Cup in China delivered a total cumulative average television audience increase of over 80 per cent compared to the 2014…
Wrestling
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Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has struck a rights agreement with the recently-launched All Elite Wrestling promotion
Football
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The 2022 Fifa World Cup will receive widespread free-to-air and pay-TV coverage in Russia after the 2Sport2 consortium picked up the rights
Football
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Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has posted increased profits and reduced revenues for the first half of 2019 on the back of its first season without rights to the Uefa Champions League club football…
Business

Chris Stone leaving iconic publication after 27 years
Basketball
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Direct-to-consumer sports streaming service DAZN has extended an agreement in Brazil for rights to the top-tier EuroLeague basketball competition until the end of the 2022-23 season
Multi-sport
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Claro Sports, the broadcaster owned by Carlos Slim's Mexican telecoms giant América Móvil, is to offer free content from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on YouTube through its editorial tie-up with Spanish m…
Football
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Spanish public broadcaster TVE has secured the rights to the Spanish women’s national team qualifying matches and the finals for the women’s European Championships in 2021.
Business

A greater variety of sports are now available due to OTT offerings but OTT rights fees still fall well short of those paid by linear TV companies. Eric Fisher asks how soon it will be before live streaming makes up the majority of the sports media landscape, if ever.
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Suning Sports, owner of the Chinese streaming platform PP Sports, is laying off nearly 30 per cent of its staff in a cost-cutting drive and may have restarted joint-venture talks with Alibaba, according…
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The Belgian operation of pay-TV broadcaster Eleven Sports has, for the first time, reported positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda), after launching in the country…
Winter Sports
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The Olympic Channel, the International Olympic Committee’s OTT platform, has said it will provide 300 hours of coverage of the 2020 winter Youth Olympic Games, which takes place in Lausanne, Switzerland f…
Swimming
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The new franchise-based International Swimming League will receive free-to-air exposure in Canada after a rights agreement was struck with CBC Sports, the sports arm of the public broadcaster
Football
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Sports AI and data company Stats Perform has extended deals with beIN Media Group for betting video rights to club competitions organised by the French Football League (LFP) and Turkish Football Federation
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Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies have agreed a multi-year extension of their local TV rights deal with AT&T SportsNet, though the length of the new term and additional dollars involved have not b…
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The IAAF World Athletics Championships’ sparse attendances and complaints over searing heats for marathon races have failed to dissuade the German television audience as viewing figures pick up in the c…