January 16, 20232 yr The BBC will continue to show the summer and winter Olympic Games for the next decade.
January 18, 20232 yr Author The BBC will broadcast live NBA basketball games for the remainder of the 2022-23 season. The first fixture to be shown will be Thursday night's NBA Paris Game between Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons, available on BBC Three and iPlayer from 20:00 GMT. Four regular season games, two play-off games, one Conference Finals game and one NBA Finals game will also be shown. There will also be selected highlights and an end-of-season review show. Thursday's Paris Game sees NBA return to Europe for the first time since 2020.
February 1, 20232 yr Author Sky Sports will remain the home of ICC (International Cricket Council) cricket until 2031 after Sky extended its partnership, continuing to show the biggest events in international cricket for years to come. The new long-term deal, starting in 2024, means Sky and NOW retain the ICC Broadcast and Digital rights to show all men's and women's events at the pinnacle of the sport, including the ICC Cricket World Cups and ICC T20 World Cups through to the end of 2031.
March 3, 20232 yr Author Sports streaming subscription service DAZN and free-to-air (FTA) broadcaster ITV have landed live broadcast rights in the UK for the Indian Premier League (IPL), according to the Daily Mail. The deal, which kicks in from this season’s edition of the domestic franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament, will reportedly run for five years. DAZN has purportedly secured the lion’s share of fixtures and will stream 58 IPL games per season, including the playoffs and final. ITV will broadcast 16 regular season matches each year.
March 26, 20232 yr Author DAZN and Sky Sports have tied up the rights to the 2023 IPL in the UK and Ireland. All 74 matches will be available through the two providers, with the tournament beginning on 31 March. Sky Sports subscribers will be able to watch through its linear channels or Now, while DAZN will have it on its streaming platform as well as its recently launched channel available on Sky. England trio Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, and Sam Curran will be taking part in the men’s competition this year, with the opening match between Hardik Pandya’s 2022 champions Gujarat Titans and Stokes’ Chennai Super Kings on Friday. DAZN and ITV had been strongly linked with a joint deal to bring the IPL back to free-to-air, but ITV appears to have missed out. ITV showed the competition between 2010 and 2014, the last time it wasn’t behind a paywall in the UK. Bryan Henderson, director of cricket & NFL at Sky Sports, said: “The IPL sees the best players from across the world face off in front of a fanatical local audience in search of glory – resulting in some of the most explosive cricket around.
April 3, 20232 yr Author Television coverage of the English Football League is set to stay on Sky Sports after it was named as the preferred bidder for 2024 onwards. Reports had suggested that streaming platform DAZN wanted to show every game live, ending the Saturday 3pm blackout. In a statement, the EFL said it had completed a "full and comprehensive review" of invitation to tender bids. It added it would now enter into an exclusive month-long negotiating period with Sky. The previous five-year broadcast deal, worth £595m, was signed in 2018 and allows Sky to show at least 138 league matches a season as well as every play-off game and the Carabao Cup final.
May 5, 20232 yr Author EFL clubs have unanimously approved a record domestic rights deal with Sky Sports worth £935m over a five-year period with over 1000 matches to be broadcast each season - a record number of games for any club football agreement.
October 19, 20231 yr Author The Premier League will increase the number of live televised fixtures in the UK from 200 to around 270 in its next rights cycle. Five live packages of between 42 and 65 games are going up for tender in a four-year deal from the 2025-26 season. The Saturday afternoon 3pm blackout will remain in place but every 2pm Sunday kick-off will be televised. This is the first time the Premier League has been through a tender process for its rights since 2018.
December 4, 20231 yr Sky and TNT will show 270 of the 380 Premier League games from the 2025-6 season. Amazon will no longer show anything. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67619756
December 5, 20231 yr Author The BBC will continue also to show highlights on Match of The Day as well as MOTD2 and Football Focus.
December 7, 20231 yr Author All 17 races from the upcoming campaign, which gets underway with the Mexico City E-Prix on 13 January, will be aired live on TNT Sports with uninterrupted coverage of every race, as well as live and on-demand streaming on discovery+. https://www.autosport.com/formula-e/news/tn...ula-e/10555786/
December 7, 20231 yr The broadcast arrangements for next year's Euros have been announced. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67646135
January 9, 20241 yr Author The BBC will replace C4 as the freeview broadcaster of rugby league, starting next month They'll show 12 live matches on Saturday evenings plus on iPlayer, a couple of end of season play-off games and the World Club Challenge ....... and are expected to renew their rights to the knockout Challenge Cup https://www.totalrl.com/bbc-beat-channel-4-...xt-three-years/
February 16, 20241 yr TNT Sports will be showing FA Cup football from the 2025-6 season. They will share coverage with a free-to-air broadcaster. Both semi-finals will be shown by the free-to-air partner.
February 16, 20241 yr TNT Sports will be showing FA Cup football from the 2025-6 season. They will share coverage with a free-to-air broadcaster. Both semi-finals will be shown by the free-to-air partner. Don't think this changes too much despite what the media say. Suspect BBC/ITV will still get the first pick.
July 13, 20241 yr TNT Sports will be showing FA Cup football from the 2025-6 season. They will share coverage with a free-to-air broadcaster. Both semi-finals will be shown by the free-to-air partner. I suppose most people who watch football have a TNT Sports subscription due to them showing Premier League games and will at least get more for their money this way but as someone who really only watches the FA Cup and not much Premier League it's kind of annoying to see the cup go back to a subscription channel. Having it on BBC/ITV was the best option. Guess it's too expensive for ITV? Edited July 13, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
July 13, 20241 yr Author With the FA Cup deal it's back to how it was in previous years with BBC/ITV and TNT/ESPN/Sky Sports sharing the rights.
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