ESPN and LaLiga have reached an expansive, long-term agreement that will make ESPN+ the new English- and Spanish-language home for LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank in the United States for the next eight seasons (through 2028-29). Beginning in August, hundreds of live matches across both leagues will be available each …
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Premier League clubs have unanimously agreed a proposal to conclude a three-year renewal of the League’s UK live and non-live broadcast agreements with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport. This follows approval in principle for the renewal from Government after an extensive period of consideration. The …
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Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, has agreed a four-year deal with Sky Italia up to the end of the 2024-25 season. The new deal, which begins with the 2021-22 season, includes rights to both Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 matches, the Bundesliga relegation play-offs, and the …
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Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, and Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, have extended their media rights partnership until 2029 in nine European markets in an historic agreement. Football fans in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today announced StarTimes as their new media partner in Sub-Saharan Africa for 2021 to broadcast the AFC’s national team and club competitions including the AFC Asian Qualifiers – Road to Qatar Final Round (until December 31, 2021) as well as the Group Stages, Knock-out …
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The German Football Association (DFB) is inviting bids for the audio-visual media rights to the Men’s DFB-Pokal for Germany and the German-speaking territories from 2022/23 through to the 2025/26 season. Corporations can now express their interest by emailing Ausschreibung2021@dfb.de. The registration deadline is May 14, 2021. The decision on the awarding …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today announced FANSEAT (part of the Spring Media group) as their new media partner in France, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Belgium for 2021 and 2022 to broadcast the AFC’s national team and club competitions including the AFC Asian …
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Italy’s Lega Serie A has appointed Infront to manage its international media rights for all platforms across Europe, Asia, Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa and Americas (excl. USA) for the next three seasons from 2021/22 to 2023/24. The Lega Assembly ratified Infront’s proposal for the commercialisation of the league’s worldwide media rights …
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Following the tender process for the Italian media rights to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, FIFA has awarded the exclusive rights to the competition to Rai, the Italian national public service broadcaster. Rai has been awarded multi-platform rights across television, digital and radio, and will provide an extremely strong broadcast …
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All 64 matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, will be broadcast live on SuperSport after the World of Champions concluded a broadcast deal with FIFA. This continues SuperSport’s long-standing association with football’s governing body and reaffirms SuperSport as Africa’s home of world football. SuperSport’s …
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