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TNT Sports sublicenses Women’s Champions League from DAZN

TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland has boosted its European club football offering after agreeing a sublicence deal with DAZN that will see certain games from the UEFA Women’s Champions League and from the French, Spanish and German leagues on its channels and platforms, starting this season. TNT Sports has licensed the rights from […]

November 14, 2023

Prime Video signs Women’s Soccer League deal

Prime Video and the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) have announced a new, multiyear rights agreement that will make the streamer the new home for the league in the US and Canada. Beginning in 2024, Prime Video will be the exclusive home for 27 total matches each season, including 25 regular-season games as part of […]

November 13, 2023

TNT Sports adds Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby

Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby will be shown on TNT Sports in a new agreement that will see more than 20 matches broadcast live on linear and digital platforms this season. The multi-year deal kicks off on TNT Sports 1 and discovery+ on November 18th when Sale Sharks visit Bristol Bears. TNT Sports’ coverage of Premiership […]

November 8, 2023

Report: UK screen industry failing on sexual harassment

The UK film and screen industry is failing to tackle sexual harassment, with some victims punished or victimised if they do speak out, according to a report looking at the experiences of staff in a range of roles across the television and film industry. The research, led by an academic at the University of York, […]

October 24, 2023

Women at War – The Invisible Army now in production for Sky

Following the success of Eric Ravilious – Drawn To War, Foxtrot Films, led by BAFTA award winning Writer/Director/Producer Margy Kinmonth and Emmy Award winning Producer/Executive Producer Maureen Murray, is in production on a new Sky Original feature documentary: Women at War – The Invisible Army. The film will open theatrically internationally and then air on […]

October 20, 2023

WXV announces global broadcast deals

WXV, a new dawn for international women’s rugby, has announced a number of broadcast deals in key and emerging rugby territories. Matches in all three divisions – WXV 1, WXV 2 and WXV 3 – will be broadcast live, with RugbyPass TV offering free streaming of any matches outside of the relevant territories. Sky New […]

October 5, 2023

TF1 scores rights for Rugby World Cup 2025, WXV

French broadcaster TF1 will show all the action from an expanded Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 being held in England, featuring 16 teams, including France who secured automatic qualification by finishing third in New Zealand last year. The deal, which extends the long-standing partnership between the sport’s global governing body and TF1, will also see […]

October 5, 2023

Premiership Women’s Rugby appoints IMG

Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) has appointed IMG to drive the development of its new digital and content channels strategy.  The partnership will focus on growing the digital audience for the Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby competition and the Allianz Cup and deepening the engagement of both Premiership Women’s Rugby and its clubs with fans in the […]

October 4, 2023

France: TFI acquires UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 rights

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 […]

September 29, 2023

Sky: 2023 Solheim Cup most watched ever

Audience figures demonstrate continued growth in audiences for women’s sport on Sky Sports in 2023, following similar records broken for the Ashes, Women’s Super League and The Hundred. The 2023 Solheim Cup golf tournament saw history made as Team Europe retained the trophy for the third successive tournament, with a record-breaking number of viewers watching […]

September 27, 2023