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Football
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Canal+ secures Women’s World Cup rights from TF1
Vivendi-owned French pay TV operator Canal+ has secured the pay TV rights to the FIFA…
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Eleven secures Serie A football streaming rights for Italy
Eleven Sports has secured live rights to Serie A football in Italy and will air…
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Canal+ secures top-tier Turkish football for African channel
French pay TV operator Canal+’s international arm has secured the exclusive rights to distribute coverage…
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BT Sport boss defends football ratings, calls for more access
The head of BT Sport, Simon Green, has dismissed fears about declining sports ratings, but…
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MTG secures exclusive international football rights for Finland
Modern Times Group (MTG) has secured the exclusive Finnish rights to the UEFA European Qualifiers…
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MTG extends English football offering with new deal
Modern Times Group (MTG) has secured the exclusive Nordic media rights to the FA Cup,…
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MTG extends Champions League rights to 2021
Modern Times Group (MTG) has extended its rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League football in…
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Sky profits hit by Premier League costs
Sky saw its operating profit fall by 11% to £1.013 billion (€1.211 billion) in the…
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BT Sport retains exclusive grip on Champions League and Europa League
BT Sport has retained exclusive rights to air Champions League and Europa League football in…
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Canal+ mulls options as competition watchdog rejects BeIN Sports deal
France’s competition watchdog has rejected Vivendi-owned Canal+’s plan to become exclusive distributor of the BeIN…
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BeIN to launch 4K Ultra HD satellite receiver in MENA
Pay TV operator BeIN has launched an Ultra-High Definition (UHD) 4K satellite TV receiver in…
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Nos and Vodafone Portugal to share sports rights
Portuguese service providers Nos and Vodafone have struck a deal to share their national and…
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Sky Germany to lose exclusive grip on Bundesliga live rights
Sky in Germany is set to lose its exclusive grip on Bundesliga football rights after…
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Vodafone and Orange secure Mediapro deal for football in Spain
Vodafone Spain and Orange have struck a deal with Catalan broadcaster Mediapro that secures for…
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Proximus agrees four-year Belgian football deal
Belgian operator Belgacom has signed an exclusive agreement with the Belgian Pro League to rename…
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Vodafone and Orange demand Telefónica shares football rights
Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain have called on Telefónica to be forced to distribute its…
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Telecable offering premium football across Spain with OTT launch
Telecable, the Spanish regional cable operator owned by UK investment outfit Zegona, has launched a…
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Champions League helps BT post record TV sign-ups
BT added 106,000 TV customers in its fiscal second quarter, its best ever performance, helped…
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AGCOM closes more pirate sites
Italian regulator AGCOM has closed three sites that broadcaster Mediaset said were illegally streaming Serie…
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Football fans feeling the pain as costs mount, says Virgin Media
Some 77% of English football fans want to see more Premier League football made available…
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Mediaset denies wrongdoing as financial police probe football deal
Italy’s financial police have initiated an investigation into allegations that commercial broadcaster Mediaset colluded with…
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NTV+ secures Serie A football
Russian pay TV operator NTV+ has followed up its deal to acquire Ligue 1 French…
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Spanish football league strikes international deal with Mediapro
Spain’s football league has named Mediapro as its agent for the international rights to matches…
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Atresmedia launches male-focused Mega
Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia has launched its planned new male-focused free-to-air channel Mega, using the frequency…
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South Africa’s Siyaya TV accuses SABC of lying about football rights
A row has broken out in South Africa between state broadcaster SABC and pay TV…
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Top Spanish football clubs lose right to negotiate individual TV deals
Spanish top-tier football clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona will lose the right to negotiate…
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Broadcast has ‘changed BT’s DNA’, says TV chief
BT’s launch of broadcasting has “changed the DNA of the company”, while the UK telco’s…
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Sky Deutschland to offer archive football VoD service
Sky Deutschland has teamed up with German football league the DFL to add a video-on-demand…
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Premier League TV auction hits record £5.14 billion
Sky retained the bulk of live Premier League football but upped its spend as the…
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Premier League auction could top £5 billion
The cost of the current UK TV auction for live Premier League football from 2016/17…