LaLiga has extended its broadcast partnership with pay-TV network Premier Sports in the UK and Ireland for an additional three years.

Two-time world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua's future fights will be screened on DAZN after the broadcaster confirmed a "groundbreaking" link-up.

 

The move ends Joshua's deal with Sky Sports, which has been in place throughout his professional career.

 

The new deal is reportedly worth £100m a year to the 32-year-old from Watford.

 

Joshua is due to take on Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch in August after the Ukrainian beat the Briton on points in London last September.

Germany v Italy is live at the same time as England v Hungary.

The streaming and TV rights for the Indian Premier League, the world's richest cricket competition, have been sold for a record $6.02bn (£5.13bn).

 

Viacom18 - backed by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani - secured the streaming rights for $3.05bn (£2.53bn).

 

Disney-owned Star India retained the TV rights for the next five years for $3.05bn (£2.53bn).

 

The two deals combined are more than double the $2.4bn Star paid for the previous five seasons of the IPL.

 

The winning bid for the TV rights - a period that incorporates 410 IPL matches - were sold for about $7.36m (£6.1m) per game.

BBC Sport will broadcast the London Marathon for another five years after renewing its partnership with the event's organiser.

 

Both parties have agreed a new deal from 2022 to 2026.

The BBC will show Champions League highlights on Wed nights from 2024.

Amazon to have first pick of live games on Tuesdays, BT Sport retains all other live rights. Deals will see 2024-27 rights earn UEFA £1.4billion up 15% on existing deals.

BBC will show highlights of the Champions League from the 2024-25 season. This is good news, it never should have been completely taken away from terrestrial TV imo.

The men's Champions League is to be broadcast on BBC TV for the first time from the 2024-25 season.

 

Highlights will be shown from 22:00 on the Wednesday of match weeks on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, with clips for online and social media also available.

 

The three-year deal includes the final, with highlights rights to be confirmed.

 

The way that's written makes it sound like the BBC would be showing the final, but they haven't currently got the rights to the highlights.

New deal between ECB and Sky Sports, details in the link below.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/62050292

Marcus Stead (authoritative snooker journalist who writes for Snooker Scene magazine) has just stated (on TalkSport) that snooker is returning to the main ITV channel for the first time in 21 years.

 

Further confirmation, as discussed on various threads quite a few times now, that sport is becoming increasingly important to terrestrial TV.

 

Of course snooker has been on ITV4 regularly for many years - but ITV has now decided it's worth showing it on the main ITV channel.

 

The event will be a new one - the World Mixed Doubles Championship.

 

No further details were given - so don't know how much will be on ITV and how much (if any) will be on ITV4.

ITV will broadcast live La Liga games in the UK after signing a three-year deal with Premier Sports to show 10 games a season.

I assume it won’t include el Classico!

I assume it won’t include el Classico!

Doubt ITV would show El Clasico.

The NFL has a new free-to-air television home in the UK and Ireland with the announcement of a three-year partnership with ITV.

 

Sports Presenter of the Year Laura Woods will be joining award-winning analysts Osi Umenyiora, a two-time Super Bowl winner, and Jason Bell when ITV kicks off its coverage on Friday September 9 with the first in a series of hour-long weekly shows, airing at 11.30pm. on ITV. The 2022 NFL season kicks off the previous night when defending champions Los Angeles Rams take on the Buffalo Bills.

C4 have retained FTA highlights of F1 plus live coverage of British GP for 2023 season.

The 2022 Billie Jean King Cup finals will be shown on UK public service broadcaster the BBC and pay-TV network BT Sport.

 

The deal for the international women’s team tennis tournament means all of Great Britain’s matches in Glasgow will be broadcast on the BBC Sport website and BBC iPlayer streaming service. Great Britain’s opening tie against Kazakhstan on 8th November will also be available to watch on the BBC’s Red Button platform.

The men's European Championship will remain on free-to-air TV, with the BBC and ITV sharing rights for the 2024 and 2028 tournaments.

 

Germany will host a 24-team tournament in 2024, although the hosts and format for 2028 have yet to be announced.

 

The BBC and ITV will split the rights to each tournament equally and both broadcasters will show the finals.

 

Italy are the European champions, having defeated England in the final at Wembley in 2021.

 

"The BBC has proven time and again that we have the ability to bring the biggest sporting events to the widest audience," said Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport.

More live free to air Rugby League on Channel 4 in February with the return of the World Club Challenge.

 

St Helens will travel to Australia to play NRL champions Penrith Panthers.

 

Kick off is at 7.00am UK time on Saturday 18th February.

 

https://www.superleague.co.uk/article/3192/...-club-challenge

That's good to hear! Not something I'll probably be watching but more sport on Freeview is always good to see.

Warner Bros. Discovery races to World Athletics Championships

 

BBC will also air the competition in the UK

 

Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed a non-exlcusive rights deal for the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Europe.

 

Taking place in Budapest a year ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the competition will be shown on discovery+ where available as well as the Eurosport channels and app in over 45 countries across the continent - all nations except Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

 

In the UK, this paywall coverage will be complemented by free-to-air BBC broadcasts, after the public broadcaster agreed a five championship deal in 2021.