The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has denied an application from FairPlay Canada – a coalition of Canadian artists, content creators, unions, guilds, producers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors – to implement a proposed website-blocking regime to address copyright piracy because it does not have the jurisdiction under the Telecommunications Act. As such, the […]
ESPN+ and ESPN have reached an exclusive, multi-year rights agreement in the United States for Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana – the two premier Cup competitions in Italian football. Coppa Italia is Italy’s single-elimination domestic Cup competition, and Supercoppa Italiana is the annual matchup between the winner of Italy’s Serie A versus the Coppa […]
Global sports and entertainment media group, beIN Corporation (beIN), has launched an international investment arbitration against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages totalling more than $1 billion (€0.87bn), claiming it has unlawfully been driven out of the Saudi market and subjected to what has been described as the most widespread piracy of sports broadcasting […]
Amazon Studios has signed an overall television deal with award-winning writer Neil Gaiman. The creator of the Amazon Original series Good Omens and the Hugo Award-winning book American Gods, Gaiman will exclusively work with Amazon Studios on the creation of additional series which will premiere globally on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories. “Neil Gaiman is a phenomenally talented writer, who creates worlds […]
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has set aside a 2017 Competition Appeal Court ruling and said the Competition Commission is entitled to perform an investigation into a channel licensing agreement between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and pay-TV operator MultiChoice. “MultiChoice agreed in terms of the agreement to pay the SABC fees of more than […]
On the heels of its acquisition of the Carabao Cup and English Football League Championship broadcast rights, StarHub has netted a brace with the UEFA Champions League (UCL) and the UEFA Europa League (UEL). With this, football fans can enjoy more football broadcast in HD at no additional cost. UCL and UEL matches will be […]
Sky Sports and the European Tour have extended their partnership until at least the end of 2022. The agreement will see the biggest events from the European Tour broadcast exclusively live across Sky Sports’ platforms, including: • Live coverage of the next two Ryder Cups: Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wisconsin in 2020 and Marco Simone Golf […]
Eleven Sports and UFC have signed a new broadcast partnership for the UK and Ireland starting in January 2019. The global sports provider has secured the rights to all 42 live UFC events in 2019, as well as over 150 hours of UFC original and archive programming in a multi-year agreement. UFC Fight Nights […]
Italian free-to-air broadcaster Mediaset has extended its partnership with the electric street racing single-seater series Formula E to air live coverage of each race the ABB FIA Formula E Championship across Italy for the next five seasons. Building on the success of last season, which included impressive viewing figures from the inaugural race on the […]
Astro Malaysia has successfully secured the Premier League broadcast rights in Malaysia for the next three seasons from 2019/20 to 2021/22. Lee Choong Khay, Chief of Sports, Astro said: “We are pleased to continue our longstanding partnership with Premier League to provide unrivalled coverage of the biggest and most exciting football league in the world. […]