Eurosport to air live PGA TOUR golf in 30 territories next year

The content will complement its extensive PGA TOUR coverage on GOLFTV. Eurosport is to air live PGA TOUR golf coverage for 43 weeks a year, beginning in January 2021. Its coverage will go out live in more than 30 territories, including Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey, with new markets set to come online in subsequent […]

NHL to remotely produce live and behind-the-scenes content using Blackbird

Quick turnaround content will be streamed on its digital and social outlets, and distributed internally for re-purposing. The National Hockey League (NHL) is remotely producing live and behind-the-scenes content as it returns to live sport, using cloud video editing platform Blackbird. For the NHL’s 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers and 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the NHL […]

DAZN picks up WWE for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Sports streamer adds live and on-demand WWE content to its sports content across these territories. WWE has agreed a multi-year deal with DAZN for live and on demand programming of weekly WWE content for DAZN in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Beginning this week, WWE Raw and SmackDown shows will go out with the original US […]

SquashTV to stream entire British Junior Open for free

Full free-to-access live coverage of the five day tournament begins today SquashTV is televising the entire Dunlop British Junior Open squash tournament for free via its SquashTV platform. Coverage is currently live and free-to-access to registered users of the site. The tournament is considered the most prestigious on the junior circuit and features more than […]

LaLigaTV channel to launch on Sky TV

Premier Sports and LaLiga bring dedicated 24/7 LaLigaTV channel to Sky EPG LaLiga is bringing its new dedicated TV channel to the Sky platform in the New Year, showing all live matches from Spain’s top-flight league in full HD. The LaLigaTV channel launches on Sky from Monday 13 January and costs £5.99 a month. To […]

All Formula E races to go free-to-air on the BBC

Fans in the UK can watch live Formula E races on different BBC platforms as well as Eurosport and Quest The BBC is to televise all of this season’s Formula E races live, on free-to-air TV and online. The Marrakesh e-prix in Morocco on 29 February and Rome e-prix on 4 April will go out […]

BT Sport retains Champions League rights in £1.2bn deal

Broadcaster fended off bids from ITV and Sky BT Sport has retained the rights to broadcast Champions League games for another three seasons in a deal worth £1.2 billion. The new deal is worth £400m a year, slightly up on the 2018-2021 rights cycle which is worth £394m a year. As such, UEFA has protected […]

Red Bull freestyle football contest to air in 4K HDR on Insight TV

Competition to be live streamed in 4K UHD HDR for the first time   Global 4K broadcaster Insight TV is to live stream Red Bull’s Street Style Football World Championship on 15 November in 4K UHD HDR. The live broadcast of the 90-minute event takes in Miami, Florida, will be in partnership with Red Bull […]

1.25m tune in to live finals of mobile esports competition

Summoners War World Arena Championship 2019 finals gets 10 times the views of last year’s tournament The finals of the Summoners War World Arena Championship 2019 picked up its highest online viewing figures to date, with 1.25m tuning in to the live stream, via YouTube and Twitch. This was 10 times the cumulative views from […]

SquashTV to broadcast Men’s Squash Championship live to 3m global fans

D2C coverage, together with Facebook streams, will see squash tournament reach large audience worldwide SquashTV will broadcast the Men’s World Team Squash Championship (held 15-21 December in Washington D.C.) for free globally, after reaching an agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF) and tournament hosts Squash on Fire. The D2C platform Squash TV, which is […]

Facebook eyes niche sports

Social media giant’s strategy is to focus on live events that are ‘under-served’ by broadcasters   Facebook is concentrating its sports strategy on “underserved” events that are not being shown by the traditional broadcasters, according to the US tech giant’s head of global live sports. Peter Hutton cited sports including surfing and Ironman as appealing […]

Kipchoge marathon reaches 500m+ TV viewers

The INEOS 1:59 Challenge gets 4.9m YouTube views and reached 500m+ TV viewers Host broadcaster Sunset+Vine has revealed viewing figures for Eliud Kipchoge’s successful attempt at breaking the 2-hour marathon on Saturday morning. The marathon, which took place in central Vienna, saw Kipchoge finish in just 1h59m40s. It was streamed live on YouTube, broadcast on […]

Premier Sports launches LaLigaTV streaming service

Channel dedicated to Spain’s La Liga is available in the UK and Ireland from today. Premier Sports has launched its dedicated English-language channel dedicated to Spain’s LaLiga. LaLigaTV is available from today in the UK and Ireland via the Premier Player OTT streaming service, costing £5.99 per month or £49 annually. Premier Sports began broadcasting […]

Millennial to build esports racing arena in Miami

Gaming and esports specialist says 12,000 square-foot arena will be first of its kind Millennial Esports is building what it says is the world’s first dedicated esports racing arena in Miami. Set to open in 2020, the new 12,000 square-foot arena will be located in the entertainment district of Wynwood in Miami. Canadian-based gaming and […]

Spalk extends live commentary options for Rugby World Cup 2019

The Rugby World Cup 2019 has teamed up with ‘Virtual Sportscasting Studio’ Spalk to provide rugby fans around the world with the choice of German, Spanish and Japanese live commentaries for every match. A total of 20+ commentators in 15 countries will be commentating from Spalk’s Virtual Studio across the six-week tournament. They have been […]

League of Legends Pro League finals unveil AR world’s first

The opening ceremony for the esports finals features a real-time AR gaming character being interviewed and joining a dance troupe on-stage Real-time facial animation and live ray tracing was used for the first time during the live broadcast of Riot Games’ League of Legends Pro League (LPL) regional finals. The broadcast saw an AR computer […]

Eurosport serves up live Laver Cup coverage

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer among players at this month’s three-day competition Eurosport is to broadcast live and multi-platform coverage of this year’s Laver Cup tennis competition across Europe. A new agreement grants Eurosport rights to the Laver Cup in more than 50 European markets, including Switzerland, where this year’s event will be hosted at […]

BT Sport broadcasts live 8K rugby at IBC 2019

Broadcaster behind one of the world’s first live 8K sports broadcasts BT Sport used IBC 2019 to demonstrate one of the world’s first live 8K sports broadcasts – of the Gallagher Premiership Rugby 7s tournament. The images were captured in 8K on a single Ikegami SHK-810 8K system camera with Fujinon lenses and displayed on […]

Eurosport to broadcast World Urban Games

BMX freestyle, parkour, breaking and 3×3 basketball among competition events at this month’s Games Eurosport is to broadcast live coverage from the inaugural World Urban Games Budapest 2019. The World Urban Games takes place from 13-15 September 2019 and features six competition events – BMX freestyle, parkour, breaking, 3×3 basketball, flying disc freestyle and roller […]

MotoGP: Full throttle action

Covering the Silverstone MotoGP race meeting for BT Sport is a mammoth operation for North One, with 26 hours of live outside broadcast over three days   It’s late on Friday afternoon at Silverstone and production house North One has already been live-to-air on BT Sport for eight hours straight. A premium presentation and commentary team have been busy fronting the show throughout the […]