BT Sport used last weekend’s FA Cup Final at Wembley to test a new live 8K virtual reality experience delivered to mobile handsets. Working with Blackmagic Design cameras and switchers for the production and using Tiledmedia’s encoding technology and app, the broadcaster covered the game live, using two camera rigs, providing 100 individual testers with […] More
ITV has picked up the joint TV rights for the FA Cup in a deal that will see it share coverage with BBC Sport, meaning that the entire competition will be available free-to-air. The new four-year deal with The Football Association (The FA) will include matches from the First Round through to the Final and […] More
DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming service, has picked up the broadcast TV rights to Major League Soccer (MLS) in six international markets. Starting with immediate effect, DAZN will screen MLS exclusively in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Spain, where it has the right to show every match. The media rights have also been […] More
Sky Sports is to broadcast every match from the 2019 Netball World Cup on a ‘pop-up’ channel dedicated to the tournament, and also stream the matches on YouTube for free. The move will see Sky Sports Mix become Sky Sports Netball from 12 July, showing all 60 matches from the World Cup and more than […] More
The Premier League has come to a new agreement with IMG that will see the two organisations continue to work together to operate Premier League Productions (PLP) for the next three seasons. PLP produces and distributes all of the Premier League’s international programming, including the broadcasting of all 380 Premier League matches. Under the new […] More
This weekend’s FA Cup Final at Wembley between Manchester City and Watford is going to be a one-sided affair, if the bookies are to be believed. And if they’re right (Watford are currently 14/1 to lift the trophy), the result of the match won’t be the only thing that can only go one way on […] More
Channel 4 will broadcast coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on TV and online after picking up highlights rights in a sub-licensing agreement. The deal will see action from every game shown free-to-air on the public service broadcaster’s main channel with programmes also being available to watch again on the All 4 on-demand […] More
Sky Sports managing director Barney Francis has been promoted to a new role that will see him focus on “the changing world of sport and the place Sky and NBCU occupy” within it. As chief executive of Future Sport, Francies will report to Sky Group chief executive Jeremy Darroch and work with colleagues across both […] More
BBC Sport’s coverage of the World Cup 2018 quarter-final between England and Sweden was named best sports programme at Sunday’s BAFTA Television Awards. The corporation’s production from Russia in June last year was victorious in a category that also included its own rugby and Winter Olympics coverage. The other BBC Sport nominations were for Scotland […] More
DAZN, the live and on-demand streaming sports service, has officially launched in Brazil, providing sports fans access to both domestic and international competitions. The content line-up includes a range of sports but football is a key component of the offering. The tournaments and leagues that DAZN will show are the local CONMEBOL Sudamericana and Campeonato […] More
