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DAZN is reinforcing its leadership in global boxing through a new five-year deal with Matchroom Boxing in the United States and the United Kingdom. The deal extends the long-term partnership
When a customer in London needed a 4K video wall that could take 12G input, the media company found no video wall suppliers that could meet their specs and timeline.
Globecast and Synamedia announces that Pitch International (Pitch), the leading London-based sports marketing agency, has gone live with cloud-based distribution of the Emirates Football Association Challenge Cup (Emirates FA Cup) matches. Using Synamedia’s Quortex Link cloud distribution platform…
Canon U.S.A announces that the vast majority of broadcast lenses utilized on the NBC live broadcast for the Big Game between New England and Seattle on Sunday were Canon. Additionally,
Sportradar has announced a multi-year agreement with NBC Sports Regional Networks to enhance live NBA game coverage. The partnership will see NBC Sports Regional Networks leverage Sportradar’s NBA advanced data and GameFrame technology across hundreds of live NBA game broadcasts during the 2025-26…
Studio programming is deploying multiple sets at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA While NBC Sports preps for its exclusive English-language coverage from the Bay Area, Telemundo Deportes is beefing
Milano Cortina marks the first time since London 2012 that NRK has had the full rights to show all the Winter Olympic action on TV. The team at the free-to-air
Combate Global and content creator Shane Fazen announce a licensing agreement to distribute the Hispanic-focused franchise’s first three live MMA events in 2026 on Fazen’s popular YouTube channel, FIGHTTIPS. The
Amazon Prime Video has overtaken DAZN as the world’s largest streaming investor in sports rights. New research from Ampere Analysis has revealed that streaming platforms will spend $14.2bn on sports rights in 2026, a 7% increase on the $13.2bn spent last year. Amazon is set to account for 27% of…
NESN, New England’s premier sports network, announces a weeklong slate of Super Bowl coverage live from Santa Clara ahead of the New England Patriots’ drive for a record seventh championship.
FOX Sports, America’s English-language home for the FIFA World Cup 2026, unveils its historic broadcast schedule for this year’s highly anticipated global sporting event. From Thurs., June 11 through Sun., July 19, 2026,
MLB Network announces that it will televise the entire 2026 Caribbean Series in English beginning this Sun., Feb. 1. Featuring teams from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico,
The fight will take place in the United Kingdom, marking Netflix’s first live broadcast from the UK. Netflix announced on Thursday that Tyson Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs), one of boxing’s
AI-powered content platform WSC Sports has acquired Partnerbrite to connect content creation with sponsorship activation. This marks the organisation’s second acquisition in less than a year. The deal will see WSC Sports add a campaign execution and audience activation layer to its existing…
Last summer, ITV celebrated the tenth anniversary of its popular reality dating show, Love Island. To ramp up the excitement of series 12 (launched in the UK on June 9)
Live sports broadcasting reached a new milestone last Saturday at the Ascot Racecourse with the debut of the world’s first live ultra-high-resolution immersive broadcast of a horse racing event, delivered
BBC Sport has announced it will broadcast more than 450 hours of live coverage from the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The broadcaster has confirmed it will provide two streams of live daytime action from Italy, alongside clips, highlights, and live text updates across its website, app, and social…
The PGA TOUR season is officially underway as the Sony Open enters Round 2 today at Waiʻalae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Among the many dramatic changes that the TOUR
When the Memphis Grizzlies take on the Orlando Magic in Berlin this evening, it will mark the first regular-season NBA game ever played in Germany. Just a few days later,
Sunset+Vine is sliding into position to be the host broadcaster for the 2026 ISU European Figure Skating Championships on behalf of British Ice Skating (BIS). Taking place in Sheffield, UK
