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Piracy: beIN Media Group launches a website to show the involvement of the Saudi state in beoutQ

The Qatari pay-TV conglomerate beIN Media Group has launched a website (https://beoutq.tv/) to demonstrate the Saudi state's involvement in the piracy of the global sports and entertainment industry, on 16/01/2019. The site "places out in the open the mountain of evidence against beoutQ, and…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Legal
• Article # 137763
• Published on 16/01/19 at 17:50
©  @ Lagardère
eSports: Lagardère Sports, exclusive marketing agency of the League of Legends European Championship

Lagardère Sports & Entertainment has become the exclusive marketing agency of the League of Legends European Championship (LEC), a European eSports league managed by Riot Games, as part of "a multi-year partnership," announced the group on 15/01/2019. "The sports marketing agency will leverage the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Marketing - Communication, …
• Article # 137743
• Published on 16/01/19 at 17:20
France TV rights: Canal+ may have asked the Premier League if RMC Sport could co-broadcast games

The pay-TV group Canal+, the rights holder, in France, to broadcast the entirety of the Premier League (380 matches per season) for the 2019-2022 cycle, has asked the English first division if the pay-TV package RMC Sport, a subsidiary of Altice Europe and the current holder of these rights…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 137609
• Published on 15/01/19 at 15:49
©  D.R.
Think Football: piracy workshop with C. Guenneteau (beIN), A. Decker (AdValorem) and J. Taieb (LFP)

Caroline Guenneteau, legal director of beIN Sports France; Arnaud Decker, chairman and founder of AdValorem (public affairs consultancy for media, digital, sports and entertainment); and Julien Taieb, director of legal affairs of the LFP, will participate in the third edition of Think Football…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Marketing - Communication, Clubs, Sponsors - Partners, …
• Article # 137512
• Published on 14/01/19 at 17:01
©  Seb Lascoux
France: François Pesenti to leave RMC Sport, Laurent Eichinger (Equidia) replaces him on 04/03/2019

Laurent Eichinger (40 years old), the managing director of the Equidia pay channel (horse racing), has been appointed managing director of the French RMC Sport pay-TV package, on 12/01/2019. He will take up his duties on 04/03/2019, replacing François Pesenti, who is leaving this position after…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies
• Article # 137490
• Published on 14/01/19 at 13:09
NBA: TNT will broadcast NBA players via an isolated camera viewing mode on Twitter

The US pay-TV channel TNT, owned by the audiovisual group Turner, will broadcast isolated camera or "Iso-cam" views that focus on a single NBA player, live on its official Twitter account (@NBAonTNT, 3.1 million followers) during the last two quarters of 20 games in the second half of the 2018-19…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital
• Article # 137327
• Published on 14/01/19 at 12:10
Germany: DAZN interested in Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga rights for the next cycle (from 2021-22)

"Of course we are also interested in the live rights of the Bundesliga, the Bundesliga and also the 2.Bundesliga are enormously interesting for sports fans in the German-speaking countries," said Thomas de Buhr, managing director of DAZN (OTT platform) Germany, Austria and Switzerland, to the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 137421
• Published on 11/01/19 at 17:35
©  D.R.
Deal Tracker: all the latest media rights agreements for football competitions since 01/01/2018

This infographic details the main acquisitions of audiovisual and broadcasting rights to football competitions, concluded by broadcasters, rights holders and/or agencies since 01/01/2018. By default, the rights acquisitions are sorted in reverse chronological order (newest first), and only the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Clubs, …
• Article # 137411
• Published on 11/01/19 at 14:40
Supercoppa Italiana in Saudi Arabia: beIN Sports expresses its disapproval at the Lega Serie A

According to News Tank Football sources, Yousef Al-Obaidly, CEO of the Qatari pay-TV group beIN Media Group, has written a letter to Luigi De Siervo, CEO of the Lega Serie A (since 20/12/2018), in which he criticises the decision to play the 2018-19 Supercoppa Italiana between Juventus FC and AC…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Legal
• Article # 137398
• Published on 11/01/19 at 13:49
©  Youtube
2018-19 LaLiga 1|2|3: free broadcast of games on YouTube in more than 155 countries from 11/01/2019

All games (11 per matchday) of the 2018-19 LaLiga 1|2|3 season will be broadcast free of charge, with commentary in English, on the official YouTube channel of the Spanish second division, in more than 155 countries, from Friday 11/01/2019 (beginning of Matchday 21). The objective of this…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Authorities
• Article # 137384
• Published on 11/01/19 at 11:55