Media Rights

Coverage of the major deals surrounding sport media rights

Nent scoops 2023 Women’s World Cup rights deal

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has acquired the exclusive media rights to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The media...

BBL returns to Sky Sports in new rights deal

The British Basketball League (BBL) has agreed a two-year media rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky, covering 30 BBL fixtures per season. The contract will...

Premier League scraps unpopular PPV model

The Premier League has made all top tier matches available via its domestic broadcast partner, finally abandoning its controversial pay-per-view (PPV) package and resorting...

Armed Forces granted free access to Manchester United club TV channel

Manchester United has offered to stream its in-house club channel, MUTV, free-of-charge on the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) TV Player. Members of the UK...

Eleven Sports acquires Ligue 1 rights in Poland

Eleven Sports Poland will offer coverage of the Ligue 1 Uber Eats for the next four seasons after the broadcaster secured the rights to...

Nine network locks down Wimbledon and French Open

Australian network Nine has acquired the broadcast rights to Wimbledon and the French Open Grand Slam tennis competitions, wrapping up three-year-deals for both tournaments,...

NENT purchases Bundesliga broadcast rights ahead of OTT launch

The Nordic Entertainment (NENT) Group in Scandinavia has acquired the exclusive Polish media rights to the Bundesliga in a four-year agreement. German Football League’s (DFL)...

Amazon secures Indian media rights for NZ Cricket

Amazon has acquired the media rights package in India for international cricket games played in New Zealand, as part of an agreement with New...

Norwegian football league rights appear on the market

Media rights to a handful of professional Norwegian football leagues have been put out to tender by Fotball Media. Broadcasters have been invited to bid...

DFL entrusts Virtual Bundesliga development to ESL

The German Football League (DFL) has teamed up with esports company ESL to further develop the Virtual Bundesliga (VBL). Swedish-based firm ESL will take over...