Leading Italian broadcasters RAI, Mediaset, Sky Italia and Discovery Italia have secured important deals for major sporting events. After six years, the UEFA Champions League returns to RAI with live and exclusive coverage of the best match of Italian teams on Wednesdays during 2018-2019. Thanks to a deal with Sky Italia, the holder of the […]
MTG has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to the European Tour package which includes the eight Rolex Series events, the World Golf Championships and, most importantly, the jewel in the crown, The Ryder Cup for the next six years. As a result, golf fans in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden can continue to follow […]
MP & Silva has been selected as the media rights distributor for La Liga, Spain’s top professional football league, in Albania, Kosovo, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria. MP & Silva will exclusively distribute media rights for the competition in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria for three seasons from 2018-2019 until 2020-2021. It will distribute the […]
The BBC says it will remain the free-to-air home for football after announcing it will continue to show English Premier League TV highlights for a further three years. It secured the rights following an open and competitive processwith a bid of £211.5 million (€240.5m). In the 2016-17 season, the BBC’s Premier League football programming was […]
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is offering fans the first ever live Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Olympic Winter Games across Europe. The Winter Olympics Eurosport VR app will be the only destination in Europe for fans to fully immerse themselves in the Games using VR, with more than 50 hours of live coverage available […]
FairPlay Canada, a coalition of Canadian artists, content creators, unions, guilds, producers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to take action to address the theft of digital content by illegal piracy websites. The coalition says that jobs of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who work in the […]
Viu, a pan-regional OTT video service by PCCW Media Group, has signed an agreement with JTBC, the Korean cable broadcaster, to offer Viu viewers access to over 80 per cent of JTBC’s quality drama series and variety shows. It marks the largest regional content volume deal that JTBC has signed in Asia^. Complementing its existing […]
Telefónica and Netflix are finalising an agreement to integrate the SvoD giant’s content on the Movistar Plus pay-TV platform. The deal – still to be signed – would allow Movistar Plus to offer its 3.7 million subscribers all Netflix cinema and TV series. Unlike its rivals Vodafone and Orange, Telefónica is seeking a complete integration […]
UK broadcasters Sky Sports F1 and Channel 4 have revealed the Grands Prix that will be shown live on their respective pay-TV and free-to-air platforms during the 2018 season. As part of its live coverage of all 21 race weekends from across the globe, Sky Sports F1 will show exclusive coverage of the first grand […]
Formula 1 has announced the renewal of its partnership with Sky Italia. For the next three years, from 2018 until 2020, Sky Italia will hold the exclusive broadcasting right of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship on TV and digital platforms in the Italian territory. The new agreement includes coverage of the three free practice […]