Recast, the UK based sports OTT platform, has raised £5.9 million (€6.7m) in its Series A round of investment. Recast said the success of the round follows increased demand from rights holders looking for alternative ways to monetise their video content as consumption and payment patterns continue to evolve. Among the investors is Simon Bax, […]
YuppTV, an OTT platform for South-Asian content, has acquired the digital broadcasting rights for VIVO IPL 2021 in close to 100 countries. With this development, YuppTV will help cricket fans across the globe to access all the live action of the 60 T20 matches slated for the VIVO IPL 2021. After shifting to the UAE […]
Discovery, the multichannel broadcaster, has emerged as a surprise contender to acquire the rights to this winter’s Ashes cricket series as part of attempt to boost significantly sporting content across its platforms. According to reports, Discovery is preparing to take on BT Sport and Sky Sports for a four-year package worth in over £50 million for […]
Cricket’s new T20 competition – the Dafabet African Premier League (APL) – will be shown exclusively to UK viewers through sports broadcasting platform Recast. The new six-team APL – which aims to be the premier T20 league on the African continent within four years – will be played in Nairobi from March 25th to April […]
Eurosport and Eurosport HD India, the sports channels from the house of Discovery, have brought to its fans the Bihar Cricket League (BCL), a T20 League which is an initiative of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) – one of the oldest cricket associations of the country and Elite Sports Management. The league has already started will […]
FreeSports, owned and operated by Premier Sports, has signed a deal with RDA to broadcast all tests, ODIs and T20 fixtures involving Afghanistan and Zimbabwe live on free to air over the next three years. From March 2nd, both sides face one another in two tests which is set to be the first Test match […]
BT Sport has announced a host of new exclusive cricket content including England men’s and women’s tours of the West Indies and New Zealand. BT Sport will also show all men’s and women’s domestic and international cricket in West Indies and New Zealand. BT Sport has already begun broadcasting cricket from New Zealand, including the […]
Channel 4 has acquired the rights to show England’s Test cricket series in India in a deal that means Test cricket will return to free-to-air television in the UK for the first time in over 15 years. Global rights holders Star Sports, owned by Disney, and Channel 4 have agreed a contract for the live […]
Global rights holder Star Sports, owned by Disney, is in advanced talks with several UK broadcasters for the rights to England’s four-match Test series in India which begins on February 5th. Channel 4 are among the front-runners to acquire the rights, which would see Test cricket return to free-to-air television for the first time in […]
ESPN+ has agreed a new five-year agreement with Cricket West Indies for exclusive US rights to all men’s and women’s matches in the International Cricket Council Future Tours Programme played in the Caribbean. The deal also includes domestic CWI matches for a total of 124 matches including 20 Tests, 46 ODI and 58 T20s. The […]