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The Uefa Champions League final was the third most-watched on record in homes across the United States, while also setting a new milestone for Paramount+, the streaming service.

PrimeTel has renewed a content distribution deal and ceded the management of its sports rights to fellow telco Cyta in a shake-up of the Cypriot market

Uefa and its appointed Team Marketing agency have gone to market with European club competition media rights in New Zealand, a tough sales territory given the demise of former rights-holder Spark Sport.

Nova has retained rights in the Czech Republic to the Uefa Champions League, completing its set of European club competition rights for the 2024-27 cycle.

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster bTV and Telekom Austria-owned telco A1 have renewed their rights in Bulgaria to Uefa club competitions, ahead of the current three-year deals ending this Saturday with the Champions League final. 

Viaplay Group has ended a tumultuous 12 months by strengthening its position as the dominant football broadcaster in its home Nordics region, picking up exclusive Uefa Champions League rights in Sweden and retaining its contract in Denmark.

The finals of this season’s Uefa club competitions will be streamed for free on discovery+ as Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to generate more subscriptions for the platform, with the matches to no longer be shown on YouTube.

The Vietcontent agency secured exclusive rights to Uefa club competitions in Vietnam from 2024-25 to 2026-27 after agreeing to pay a hefty uplift.

Wowow, the pay-television broadcaster in Japan, has retained exclusive media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country for the 2024-27 cycle

Eclat Media Group outbid its rivals in South Korea to ensure it will hold Uefa club competition rights for a fifth consecutive cycle.

Eclat Media Group will enter its fifth consecutive Uefa club competitions rights cycle after renewing its exclusive broadcast rights in South Korea following a recently issued tender process

TV 2 Group managing director and editor in chief Olav Sandnes said in a press release the media group had faced “strong competition” and that Champions League rights “are not sold on the cheap”.

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Polska has acquired exclusive rights to the Uefa Champions League from 2024-25 to 2026-27, strengthening its hold on club football broadcasting in Poland.

Broadcasters in the Ukraine must submit first-round offers for Uefa club competition rights by April 22 after the sales process was launched by the Team Marketing agency

The Vietcontent agency has acquired rights to Uefa club competitions in Vietnam from 2024-25 to 2026-27, SportBusiness understands.

Broadcasters in Israel have been given five weeks to formulate their bids for media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country

Uefa and Fifa benefitted from the aggressive entry into the African sports-rights market of New World Television, the Togo-based pay-television operator, to enjoy strong uplifts for club competition and World Cup rights, respectively.

The Team Marketing agency is to go to market with Uefa club competition broadcast rights in the Baltic countries shortly after the exit of Viaplay from the region.