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With more than 400 races across six days of competition, Henley Royal Regatta is the most prestigious event in the rowing calendar. Telling the complete story of such a packed
Pay-TV broadcaster Sky Sports has secured exclusive live broadcast rights across the UK and Ireland for WTGL, the new tech-focused women’s team golf league launched in partnership with the LPGA Tour and TMRW Sports.
World Netball has announced that the netball competition at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games generated a record-breaking reach of over 55 million viewers across global broadcast and digital platforms.
Sky Sports will broadcast the inaugural 2026 and 2027 seasons of the women’s TGL (WTGL) exclusively in the UK, as part of an expansion of its golf rights that also
Sky Sports and 1071 Media, the production company founded by former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate and Jimmy Worrall, will make and distribute three long-form football shows for social and digital platforms. Sky Media will handle commercial sales for all three. The Football Dugout is a new…
RTÉ combined Calrec’s Type R system with its SMPTE ST 2110 network to change how it mixed commentary for the 2026 World Football Championship. Where six commentary booths once needed
DAZN has secured an exclusive option on the global streaming rights to the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup, according to the Guardian. The deal extends the streaming platform’s relationship with football’s world governing body. DAZN paid $1bn (£745m) for the global rights to the first 32-team Club World…
UK outside broadcast specialist Cloudbass has completed a proof of concept for software-defined production that it says could significantly reduce the onsite infrastructure and physical footprint needed for an OB.
TNT Sports will show England’s white-ball tour of Australia and March’s 150th Anniversary Test live and exclusively in the UK, after agreeing a broadcast deal with Cricket Australia. Channel 5 will reach a free-to-air audience with exclusive highlights of every match on England’s tour, shown on its…
ESPN’s deal to acquire the NFL Network, NFL Fantasy and the rights to distribute the NFL RedZone channel to cable and satellite operators was given the regulatory nod in February
As the NFL continues to expand its roster of international games, so the need for technology that can be easily transported across the globe becomes ever-more important. For the league,
NEP has been working across all NFL International Series games over the last two months, from Australia and Brazil to the UK and mainland Europe. NEP Australia was on hand
Sky Sports has launched Minus 1, a new digital series offering a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Women’s Super League players, with Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone and Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson featuring in the opening episode. The series is designed to bring fans closer…
CBS Sports will be the exclusive U.S. Spanish-language rights holder for the Concacaf Champions Cup, adding to the English-language rights announced by the company and Concacaf in July. Paramount+ will
Premier League broadcast audiences in the United States have reached record levels following the 2026 FIFA World Cup, data from Nielsen Sports highlighting a 30 percent increase in overall viewing figures when incorporating Spanish-language broadcasts.
beIN Asia Pacific has announced a new agreement with The All England Lawn Tennis Club for exclusive broadcast rights to The Championships, Wimbledon across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong from
Trailblazing track and field league Athlos recently took over London’s StoneX Stadium for its debut on the world stage. Now in its third year, the event left the US for
beIN Asia Pacific has secured exclusive broadcast rights to Wimbledon across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong from 2027 to 2031, extending its long-standing media partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC). The five-year agreement will see live coverage of The Championships distributed…
Netflix's first exclusive football deal will see the next year's FIFA Women's World Cup at the centre of it's live-sport strategy. The US-streaming service company has appointed IMG as its production partner for all 64 matches in Brazil, as well as more than 100 hours of live studio programming…
Techex will exhibit at NAB Show New York 2026 (Booth 623, Javits Center, October 21-22), demonstrating how its tx darwin platform combines satellite and IP delivery for affiliate broadcast distribution
