Tag: sports rights

JioHotstar's replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada and Singapore with a 160,000-hour entertainment service that excludes the live sports driving much of its scale in India. JioStar's betting it can monetize its existing diaspora audience and content library at higher…

DAZN is acquiring EverPass Media, giving it commercial distribution infrastructure for U.S. bars, restaurants, hotels and casinos, including exclusive commercial access to NFL Sunday Ticket. The deal expands DAZN’s U.S. sports stack across consumer streaming, rights-holder platforms through ViewLift and…

TikTok’s 3.4 million views for Amanda Serrano’s championship fight show how quickly the lines between social, streaming and live sports are disappearing. TikTok can now move users from discovery to full-event consumption inside the same product, giving rights holders another…

Apple, Meta and Cosm are testing immersive sports experiences that could give leagues and other rights holders a new layer of inventory to reserve, package and sell separately from conventional broadcasts. The opportunity depends on contract language, but immersive, volumetric…

Europe’s broadcasters are consolidating around national and regional scale as global streaming platforms and YouTube take a larger share of viewing and advertising demand. Sky, RTL and MFE are using M&A to concentrate audiences, ad inventory, rights and operating costs,…

ESPN’s integration of NFL Network into Unlimited is turning the NFL’s 10% ownership stake into a visible product strategy, giving subscribers access to all 31 out-of-market preseason games alongside year-round league programming. The structure gives Disney more NFL inventory to…

Disney+ signed a one-year deal with Gary Neville’s The Overlap that adds 90 episodes of soccer programming, selective exclusives, commissioned content and sponsorship around the 2026/27 season without buying match rights. The structure lets Disney tap into weekly soccer attention…

Disney+ has secured a multi-year deal to stream Formula E across 144 markets beginning with the 2026-27 season, giving the service recurring live sports programming across an eight-month global calendar while ESPN and ESPN+ handle U.S. distribution. Formula E’s hybrid…

Apple is bringing select Friday Night Baseball games to Vision Pro in Apple Immersive starting August 28, using 8K 3D video, spatial audio and spatial graphics to create a premium live sports experience tied to its Apple TV subscription. Live…

Sony Pictures Networks India's deeper integration of SonyLIV with its linear TV business gives the company a unified way to develop programming, sell advertising, negotiate distribution and monetize rights across streaming and 28 channels. The structure should help Sony extract…