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China: broadcast of NBA preseason games canceled following a tweet about the situation in Hong Kong

China's public broadcaster CCTV and the Chinese internet service group Tencent have canceled the broadcast of NBA preseason games in the country in October 2019, following a tweet from Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets NBA franchise, supporting the pro-independence protests in…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Sponsors - Partners
• Article # 164409
• Published on 09/10/19 at 18:10
©  Leaders
Leaders 2019: "We are changing the world of sports via the tools we provide" (P. Hutton, Facebook)

"I think we are changing the world of sports. We are asking businesses what they aim to obtain and are trying to deliver it like for our deal with the MLB. (Facebook acquired the rights to exclusive distribution, in the USA, to 25 games for the 2018 season, then to six without exclusivity in…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Digital
• Article # 164319
• Published on 09/10/19 at 16:35
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Leaders 2019: "We aim to disrupt the hegemony of pay-TV over sports rights" (J. Skipper, DAZN)

"We are an OTT player that aims to disrupt the hegemony of pay-TV over the sports rights ecosystem," said John Skipper (USA), executive chairman of DAZN, at the 2019 edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit conference cycle, at Twickenham Stadium in London (ENG) 08/10/2019. News Tank Football…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Media Audiences, …
• Article # 164288
• Published on 09/10/19 at 16:00
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Leaders 2019: "Because of piracy we regard all sports rights as non-exclusive" (Y. Al-Obaidly, beIN)

"We now live in a world where exclusive broadcast rights are, effectively, wholly non-exclusive. Consumers, young and old, are accessing everything for nothing - via a kodi or a VPN or beoutQ - wherever they are, whenever they like, and this behaviour is being normalised. As the largest buyer of…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Legal, …
• Article # 164344
• Published on 09/10/19 at 12:02
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Japan 2019: 25 million domestic viewers for Japan-Samoa, peak at 46.1% share in the Tokyo area

Japan - Samoa (38-19), a match of the group stage (Pool A) of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, recorded, on the Japanese free-TV channel Nippon TV, a 32.8% audience share in the Kanto region (which includes the capital of Tokyo and has more than 43 million inhabitants) with a peak at 46.1% late in the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 164244
• Published on 08/10/19 at 14:00
©  Lega Serie A
Serie A TIM: historic record audience for Sky Italia for Inter - Juventus (3.2 million subscribers)

FC Internazionale Milano - Juventus (1-2), the closing game of Matchday 7 of the 2019-20 Serie A TIM drew 3.245 million TV viewers on average in Italy, with a peak at 3.419 million, on the pay-TV channels Sky Sport and Sky Calcio, on Sunday 06/10/2019 (kick-off at 20:45 CET). This figure…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Media Audiences, Agencies, Essentials Media
• Article # 164223
• Published on 08/10/19 at 10:14
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Women's Euro 2021: TF1 (14 matches) and Canal+ (in full) acquire TV rights in France

The private, free-TV group TF1 and the pay-TV group Canal+ have acquired the broadcasting rights, in France, to the 2021 Women's Euro (second edition with 16 teams, organised in England from 11/07 to 01/08/2021), announced the two companies on 04/10/2019. The Canal+ group will broadcast all 31…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 164054
• Published on 07/10/19 at 12:15
©  ASSE
2019-20 Europa League: 234,000 viewers for AS Saint-Etienne - VfL Wolfsburg on RMC Story

AS Saint-Étienne (Ligue 1 Conforama) - VfL Wolfsburg (Bundesliga) on Matchday 2 of Group I of the 2019-20 Europa League (1-1), drew an average of 234,000 TV viewers in France on the free-TV channel RMC Story on Thursday 03/10/2019 (kick-off at 18:55 CET). This figure represented an audience…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Clubs
• Article # 164047
• Published on 04/10/19 at 17:34
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FAANG Deal Tracker: list of acquisitions, partnerships, and activities in sports

The term FAANG refers to five American groups in new technologies and the internet: Facebook (social network), Amazon (e-commerce), Apple (computing technology), Netflix (VoD platform) and Google (Alphabet group, internet). By extension, the term FAANG now includes other new internet and…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Digital, …
• Article # 164000
• Published on 04/10/19 at 12:15
Deal Tracker: all the latest TV and media rights agreements for football competitions

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, Authorities
• Article # 163998
• Published on 04/10/19 at 11:14