Media

Nordic media giant Viaplay is currently involved in discussions to sublicense or sell on its rights in all its markets outside of the Nordics and the Netherlands

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has renewed its rights to the Wimbledon tennis grand slam in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under a multi-year deal, its second in Europe announced in the last two weeks

The German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) has increased its domestic media rights value in a deal with S Nation Media, the newly established platform led by former chief executive of the German Football League Christian Seifert.

Germany’s Handball Bundesliga has entered final talks with Christian Seifert’s S Nation Media after the ‘significant majority’ of the league’s executive committee opted to back the new streaming platform’…

ESPN has renewed its media rights in Latin America and the Caribbean to the flagship Tour de France and other marquee international cycling competitions for another five years

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to the 2022 World Games multi-sport event in a deal with International Sports Broadcasting

Rights-holders have found it difficult to secure substantial increases in Portugal as competition between Sport TV and Eleven has slowed down since the latter’s launch in 2018.

Austrian commercial network Servus TV and public-service broadcaster ORF have entered into two sublicensing agreements covering the upcoming 2022 Fifa World Cup and the 2024 Uefa European Championship

Sky Österreich will earn slightly less in new sublicensing deals for free-to-air rights to Austrian Bundesliga highlights and selected live matches over the next four seasons.

DAZN Group has acquired exclusive global media rights to all events featuring former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, securing his rights in the UK and Ireland for the first time

The NBA will boost the value of its media rights in the Baltics from next season after a securing a new long-term deal with regional media group TV3.

The Polish Ekstraklasa has launched its long-awaited invitation to tender for its domestic media rights from 2023-24 to 2026-27, offering flexibility to broadcasters regarding the league’s schedule and s…

DOSB New Media, the operator of online streaming service Sportdeutschland.TV, has secured rights to the Table Tennis European Champions League in a deal with Sportradar covering the German-speaking region

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has extended its highlights rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky Austria in an agreement that also includes four selected matches from the country’s t…

After spending years on the development of its ‘3x3’ events, the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has signed several multi-year deals over the past few months.

United Group’s Nova has extended its rights agreement with Greek football club Aris for another three seasons, seeing off competition from rival broadcaster Cosmote TV.

Euroleague has renewed its contract with Sports Channel in Israel for another three seasons at a flat fee, consolidating the gains made in the previous deal.

DAZN has retained broadcast rights in Japan and German-speaking countries to Uefa national team matches, including selected friendly matches