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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

Sky Bet Championship TV audience up 51% YoY

The Sky Bet EFL has achieved the distinction of being the highest attended league body in Europe, after welcoming more than 21.5 million fans through the turnstiles in 2023/24. The cumulative attendance figure is the most since the 1951/52 season, representing an 11 per cent increase on the previous season and sees the League finish […]

June 11, 2024

World Chase Tag Championships on TrillerTV

World Chase Tag USA (WCT), the global competitive tag organisation, and TrillerTV have announced that the biggest event in the league’s history, The WCT6 World Championships, will stream live from Evry-Courcouronnes, France, on TrillerTV. The best athletes from Parkour and Ninja Warriors, as well as the top Hollywood stuntmen and women, will be participating in […]

April 25, 2024

Taylor vs Serrano 2 on Netflix

Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) have announced that, after two years, Matchroom’s undisputed super lightweight world champion Katie Taylor (23-1, 6 KOs) will step back into the boxing ring for a rematch against  unified featherweight champion Amanda ‘The Real Deal’ Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs). Taylor vs Serrano 2 will stream live globally, exclusively on […]

April 17, 2024By Nik Roseveare

BBC secures rights for British Swimming Championships

BBC Sport is set to broadcast every finals session of the British Swimming Championships this year, confirming a new broadcast partnership with British Swimming. For the first time, the championships will feature a fully integrated schedule that includes both swimming and para-swimming races, with prospective Team GB athletes competing together as they prepare for the […]

March 28, 2024

World Indoor Athletics Championships on BBC

In the build-up to the Paris Olympics this summer, BBC Sport is offering live coverage from the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow, as global track and field talent descend on Scotland. Viewers can follow all the action live on BBC Two and iPlayer. Gabby Logan leads the BBC’s coverage of the World Indoor Athletics […]

February 28, 2024

Sunset+Vine to provide BBC coverage of Indoor Bowls

Sports producer Sunset+Vine has commenced production of the BBC’s World Indoor Bowls coverage for the eighth year. The Sunset+Vine Scotland team will produce more than 50 hours of coverage on BBC One and BBC Two, Red Button and iPlayer across four world championship events. The championships, taking place at the legendary Potters Resort in Hopton-on-Sea […]

January 16, 2024

Netflix tracks the world’s fastest humans

Netflix is in production on a new sports documentary series tracking top sprinters from countries including the US, Jamaica, the UK, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Italy. This series delves deep into the psyches of those elite competitors who train to be the fastest person on the planet. Netflix will invite viewers to take an exclusive […]

August 17, 2023By Nik Roseveare

EFL considers ending 3pm TV blackout

The English Football League (EFL) is considering lifting the 3pm football blackout rule in the next sale of its broadcast rights. The EFL confirmed it has issued a request for proposal (RFP), inviting interested broadcasters and media companies to suggest new ways the league can be presented on TV and streaming platforms from the 2024-25 […]

October 12, 2022

Viaplay scores Carabao Cup, Championship rights

Viaplay will be the exclusive streaming home of EFL Sky Bet Championship and Carabao Cup football in every Nordic and Baltic country, Poland and the Netherlands from the 2022/2023 season, as the result of a new long-term rights agreement. Every season, more than 180 live matches from England’s second tier will be shown on Viaplay, […]

May 23, 2022