IMG has been appointed as a strategic advisor to the Belgian Pro League. In its role, IMG will undertake a deep analysis of the local media landscape to develop a media distribution strategy to help the league extract maximum value from its domestic market, ahead of its upcoming tender for the 2025/26 season onwards. This […]
Streaming platform Rakuten TV is set to launch Bojan Krkić, Beyond The Smile, a documentary that details the career of the Catalan striker and highlights all the difficulties experienced by one of FC Barcelona’s greatest talents, which will be available on the platform in 42 countries for free from November 3rd. The documentary, which focuses […]
The French football Ligue 1 TV rights tender for 2024-2029, launched in September, has been declared unsuccessful. Professional league body LFP had set opening bids at €800 million per season for the domestic market. “After having received several qualitative offerings for all the one to five lots, none of them has been attributed for auction,” […]
Athletes are gearing up for the 2023 FIPFA Powerchair Football World Cup, which takes place October 15th-20th in Sydney, Australia. For athletes and fans who can’t attend, FIPFA will deliver five days of live and on-demand video coverage of 54 matches across its YouTube and Facebook channels, while Channel 10 will also broadcast select matchups. To deliver the […]
US global asset management firm Oaktree Capital Management has submitted a €1 billion-plus bid for the Italian Serie A TV rights, according to reports. Oaktree is seeking to take a significant stake in a new TV venture run by Italy’s Serie A football league, which would be the first time a major European sport would […]
LaLiga Experience is back for another year. The project, designed to support LaLiga’s international broadcast rights holders, will begin on Matchday 9 of the LaLiga EA Sports season for the fixture between Granada CF and FC Barcelona. The initiative celebrates its eighth campaign, and provides TV partners with unique content and prizes for their viewers, […]
The EFL, which runs the second, third and fourth flights of English professional football, has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for interested parties regarding its international broadcast rights, which are scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2023/24 season. Building on its previous agreements, the EFL has witnessed steady growth in both revenue […]
Sunset+Vine, the sports production company, has landed a three year deal to produce BBC ALBA’s sports coverage following a competitive commissioning process. Sunset+Vine will deliver coverage of at least 176 hours of live and as-live sporting events in the coming year, including football, shinty and rugby, and will produce a minimum of 26 live SWPL […]
TF1 group has acquired the rights to the Women’s Euro 2025, which will be hosted in Switzerland in July 2025. The deal includes the linear and streaming rights in France to the 31 matches in the tournament. At the last Women’s Euro tournament in 2022, the French team’s semi-final defeat attracted more than 6 million […]
French pay-TV company Canal+, which has aired Ligue 1 football since 1984, has informed the French Professional Football League (LFP) that it will not participate in the current domestic rights TV tender for the 2024-2029 period. The news was confirmed to press agency AFP after it leaked to sports newspaper L’Équipe. The tender was launched […]