Five operators of illegal streaming network jailed for more than 30 years
Call for Proposals for Italian Territory Lega Series Channel – Football Seasons from 2024/2025 to 2033/2034
What are grant of rights contracts in U.S. college football & their impact on the institutions
AFC confirms media rights deal for the 2025-2028 cycle with Korea Republic’s Coupang Play
ICC agrees deal with SuperSport to show ICC cricket in 52 African territories
Why Evolving Consumption Habits May Change Football’s Broadcasting Model
Listed Sporting Events Regime Under Review By UK Government
FIFA launches tender process in Spain for media rights to FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™
Eca Executive Board Brings Together Europe's Leading Clubs To Discuss Post-2024 Media Rights, New Distribution Models And Eca Network
ICC launches tender process for media rights starting in 2024
Negotiating & Drafting Of Media Rights Agreements - An International Perspective
Sports Law in 2022 – Key issues to watch in UK & Ireland
Key Sports Law Cases And Developments Of 2021 – UK & Ireland
World Athletics and EBU agree to renewal of long-running media rights agreement
World Athletics and the European Broadcasting Union are delighted to announce that they have extended and enhanced their long-running media rights partnership for all the events in the top-tier World Athletics Series.
Premier Hockey Federation announce exclusive rights agreement with ESPN+
The Premier Hockey Federation announced today it has reached an agreement that makes ESPN+ the exclusive home of the PHF in the United States during the upcoming 2021-22 season. 60 PHF regular-season games, plus special events, Isobel Cup Playoffs and Championship, will be available to stream live, exclusively on ESPN+ for fans in the U.S.
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Seven
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and Seven Network are proud to announce it is the official Australian broadcast partner for the XXII Commonwealth Games, which will take place in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from 28 July to 8 August next year.
Olympic broadcasters look ahead to Beijing 2022 after success of Tokyo 2020
Following the ground-breaking coverage of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Olympic Broadcasting Services and rights-holding broadcasters around the world are now turning their attention to the upcoming Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
The Future Of Sports Broadcasting In UAE: Reimagining Rights Agreements & Collaborating With The Competition
AFC agrees media rights deal with ESPN exclusively in Latin America, Central America and non-exclusively in the Caribbean
Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today announced ESPN as their new media partner in Latin America, Central America and non-exclusively in the Caribbean to broadcast AFC competitions for the 2021 to 2024 rights cycle.
ICC.tv partners with Cricket Australia to live stream Australia's international summer of cricket
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has partnered with Cricket Australia to broadcast the upcoming Australian summer of cricket into emerging cricket markets including Europe and Southeast Asia, starting with the highly anticipated rematch between India and Australia, finalists in last year’s ICC T20 Women’s World Cup.
IOC awards 2026-2032 broadcast rights in China
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that the China Media Group (CMG) has been awarded the exclusive broadcast rights in the Chinese mainland and Macau (SAR) for the XXV Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina in 2026, the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad in Los Angeles in 2028, the XXVI Olympic Winter Games in 2030, and the Games of the XXXV Olympiad in Brisbane in 2032.
AFC agrees rights deal with Abu Dhabi Media in the United Arab Emirates
Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today confirmed Abu Dhabi Media, the UAE’s leading public service broadcaster and media company, as their exclusive media partner to broadcast the AFC’s national team and club competitions for the 2021 to 2024 rights cycle in the United Arab Emirates.
Sports Technology And Media Rights - The Year In Review 2020/2021
Serie-A strike deal with Google: how big-tech platforms are helping tackle online sports piracy
FIFA awards FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ media rights in Poland
FIFA has awarded the exclusive rights in Poland to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ to Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group). NENT Group will show every match from the 2023 edition in Australia and New Zealand, the biggest event in the international women’s game, on its Viaplay platform in Poland.
Genius Sports strikes official data and streaming partnership with the European League of Football
CAF launches Tender process for Sub-Saharan and global media rights package including TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023, TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2024 and TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2025
Genius Sports awarded exclusive official data & streaming partnership with Chinese Taipei Football
NBC, Optus, and Premier League Productions trialed an augmented broadcast on Peacock in the US earlier this month.
Sport And Media Rights – Annual Review 2022/23
Cooperation In Staging Major Sports Events - Why Is Compromise Becoming So Tricky?
Disney Star will be the home of ICC cricket in India through to 2027
Metaverses – A Brave New World for Sports Brands?
Summary Judgements & Force Majeure: How The Premier League Recovered $213mn From PPLive
BCCI announces the successful bidders for acquiring the Media Rights for the Indian Premier League Seasons 2023-2027
Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight: Steve Bainbridge
Key Sports Law Cases And Developments Of 2021 – Central & South America
Beating Sport Broadcast Piracy - Saving The Shots Vs. Removing The Goal
FIFA awards key media rights to FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ in the Netherlands
FIFA has awarded free-to-air media rights to key matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ to public service broadcaster NOS in the Netherlands. NOS will show twenty-five matches of the tournament, including the opening match, any Dutch national team matches and the key matches of the knock-out stage on its leading NPO channels. NOS has previously achieved extremely high audiences for women’s football, including the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019™, the final of which was followed by around 5.5 million viewers (with 88% audience market share).
The Rules Against 'Portraying Problematic Behaviour' In Sports Gambling Ads (ASA v Ladbrokes)
ESPN to broadcast Super Wild Card Weekend's Monday night game for next five years
The inaugural Monday wild-card playoff game will be broadcast by the home network of Monday Night Football.
ESPN announced Wednesday it has won the rights to host the finale of Super Wild Card Weekend for the next five years. This season's offering, the league's first scheduled weekday prime-time playoff game, will be played on Jan. 17, 2022.
LawInSport Weekly News Recap - 8 October
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AFC announces media rights deal with ELEVEN
Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today announced ELEVEN as their new media partner in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Philippines.
UEFA, Premier League and Canal+ International welcome final binding anti-piracy decision in Rwanda
Rwandan broadcaster Victory TV ordered to cease the unlawful broadcast of UEFA Champions League and Premier League matches following decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Kigali
Is Australia’s “Anti-Siphon List” Still The Best Way To Protect Live Sports Broadcasts?
World Rugby announces broadcast deal for Rugby World Cup 2021 and 2023
Under the deal, which is announced just ahead of two years to go to Rugby World Cup 2023, TF1 will provide free-to-air coverage of Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand (8 October-12 November, 2022) and Rugby World Cup 2023 in France (8 September-28 October).
The RFEF considers the CVC-LNFP agreement illegal
The Royal Spanish Football Federation has had the opportunity to examine before tomorrow's Assembly and with a margin of only 48 hours the documentation provided - we do not know if in a complete way - by the LNFP that structures the operation intended by it and CVC. This operation, carried out with the absence of the slightest publicity and concurrence in the selection of the successful bidder, has two parts: that related to the commercialization of audiovisual rights, on the one hand; and the rest of the LNFP businesses, which make up a heterogeneous group, on the other.
The Premier League TV Rights Deal Rollover – A Break From The Norm
UEFA committed to tackling audiovisual piracy during UEFA EURO 2020
UEFA continues to team up with leading social media providers in order to combat audiovisual piracy more effectively during UEFA EURO 2020
Combatting the threat of drones to sports media and data rights
