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The 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) season has already produced two very different international results. The earlier Masters Santiago saw two Pacific teams meet in the grand final, while Masters London saw an unlikely Americas team win from the lower bracket. Ahead of VALORANT Champions 2026…
FingerWorks Telestrators has announced a partnership with Broadcast Rental to expand rental and support capabilities for its telestration systems across the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. Broadcast Rental will stock
Sportradar has expanded its partnership with Polymarket, extending its sports data, streaming and integrity services to the prediction market platform across more than 20 leagues and competitions. The expanded US agreement adds properties including the Bundesliga, Euroleague Basketball, Chinese…
FuboTV has announced the launch of ACC Network Extra (ACCNX) and SEC Network+ (SECN+) on the Fubo streaming service at no additional cost to subscribers with English-language plans. The networks
MediaKind has announced that CNBC UK has selected Beam to modernize its contribution and distribution infrastructure for live broadcast operations. The deployment will enable CNBC UK to move live news
Sportradar has extended its exclusive global data and audio visual betting rights agreement with Euroleague Basketball through 2031, covering more than 650 games each season. The renewal will take effect from the 2026/27 season and covers both the EuroLeague and BKT EuroCup, continuing rights that…
Techex has appointed Stuart Almond as Chief Revenue Officer. Almond brings more than 25 years of experience across technology, media, and telecommunications, having held senior roles at Qvest, Microsoft, and
Genius Sports, LeoVegas and the European Leagues tell iGB why micro-betting and the rising importance of data are behind the next evolution of football betting.
DAZN has renewed its Serie A broadcast rights in the UK and Ireland for the 2026/27 season. The agreement ensures that every Serie A match will continue to be available on the platform for viewers in the UK and Ireland throughout the upcoming campaign. During each round of fixtures, seven matches…
UK golf technology startup Paralo has raised £270,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to develop its operating system for golf clubs and a connected product for golfers. £250,000 of the fo...
The 2026 European Athletics Championships (Aug. 10-16) brought the continental championships to England for the first time, and the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham drew 40 TV and radio outlets and
Prime Video has revealed 67 regular-season games from the 2026/27 NBA season that it will stream across Europe. The second season of NBA on Prime tips off with a doubleheader
YouTube star KSI, DAZN and Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club have agreed a broadcast and distribution partnership for the 2026/27 season designed to bring supporters closer to the action than
Manchester United FC football fan channel, The United Stand, has grown far beyond its origins as a webcam-based online community. The channel now reaches 2.26 million YouTube subscribers and has
Principality Stadium has unveiled Wales’ first Amazon frictionless retail kiosks, introducing a new way for fans to purchase food and drink at one of the UK’s most iconic sporting and entertainment venues. Named “Now in a Minute” after the much-loved Welsh expression, the concept combines local…
Digital sports platform and YouTube football channel The Overlap has agreed a headline sponsorship deal with streaming service Disney+ for the upcoming 2026/2027 football season. Under the one-year agreement, Disney+ will serve as the headline sponsor for both the platform’s multi-award-winning…
From behind-the-scenes cameras in the refurbished Millennium Building to courtside ‘whisper positions’, Wimbledon’s coverage keeps evolving – working ever more closely with its 42 global broadcast partners while balancing increased
From a first-of-its-kind accessibility feed to a new graphics supplier and the BBC’s Signals layer, The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) is opening The Championships to new and underserved
Wimbledon Broadcast Services (WBS) has a tradition of broadcasting firsts, but a hard rule about the field of play. The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s (AELTC) Paul Davies, associate director,
LiveU’s LU900Q intelligent production unit was deployed as part of the host broadcast operation for the Games in Glasgow (July 23–August 2, 2026). Host broadcaster Actua Sport deployed 14 LiveU
