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ACE hails Vietnam anti-piracy actions

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), has commended the Vietnamese court and local law enforcement for the conviction of the three operators of the illegal streaming websites bilutvt.net, tvhayh.org, and hlss.pro in a case in which various ACE members were complainants. The People’s Court of Quang Binh Province sentenced the primary operator, […]

July 26, 2024By Colin Mann

NBA scores Disney, NBCU, Amazon deals

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has confirmed the renewal of its partnership with The Walt Disney Company and well as revealing new agreements with NBCUniversal (NBCU) and Amazon under which ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime Video will telecast NBA games beginning with the 2025-26 season and running through the 2035-36 season. The NBA App will be […]

July 25, 2024

The Women’s Cup on DAZN

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has partnered with The Women’s Cup to broadcast eight international football matches featuring clubs from across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. With eight teams, this summer will mark the largest iteration of The Women’s Cup as the competition continues to grow. All DAZN coverage of women’s football […]

July 25, 2024By Nik Roseveare

TNA Wrestling expands WBD TV deal in India

Anthem Sports & Entertainment has announced that that TNA Wrestling has expanded its partnership with Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) sports channel Eurosport India. The exclusive multi-year agreement, encompassing hundreds of hours of content, extends TNA’s offerings, broadcasting all original series, PPV events, and more throughout India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The […]

July 24, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Infront signs broadcast deals for Diamond League

Infront has secured several long-term broadcast agreements for the Wanda Diamond League from 2025. These include new free-to air deals to ensure broad global coverage of the sport following the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Free-to-air agreements have been signed in Latvia with LTV, Switzerland with SRG and Germany with ARD and ZDF (via SportA) who […]

July 24, 2024

Arrests in illegal streaming crackdown

In one of the largest operations to date, UK intellectual property protection body FACT and partners, including Sky, have taken action across the UK to combat illegal streaming and the use of unlawfully modified Firestick devices. In a month-long coordinated and sequenced nationwide surge, FACT and police targeted individuals providing unauthorised access to premium TV […]

July 23, 2024By Colin Mann

CMA signs AI competition statement

As artificial intelligence continues to develop at speed, the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice have signed a joint statement setting out shared principles to protect competition and consumers. The statement affirms their shared view that AI, particularly powerful foundation models, has […]

July 23, 2024By Colin Mann

eSkootr Championship signs DAZN deal

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a five year broadcast partnership with the eSkootr Championship (eSC), the micromobility racing series. Under this multi-territory agreement, DAZN will broadcast the Championship to audiences across their global markets. DAZN’s coverage of eSC’s content will comprise of both live and on-demand broadcasting, and will live in DAZN’s free […]

July 23, 2024By Nik Roseveare

CBS Sports scores EFL, Carabao Cup rights in US

CBS Sports and the English Football League (EFL) have announced an exclusive, multi-year, multi-platform rights agreement for CBS Sports to offer the widest distribution of EFL matches ever in the US. CBS Sports will air at least 250 EFL matches each season across the Championship, League One, League Two, Carabao Cup and Bristol Street Motors […]

July 22, 2024

DAZN partners with Tottenham Hotspur Women

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a global partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Women. This collaboration will provide fans of women’s football access to Tottenham Hotspur women’s team content and exclusive Club benefits within DAZN’s free women’s football environment. DAZN and Spurs will also collaborate on marketing and brand partnership initiatives – developing new ways […]

July 22, 2024