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Bundesliga: Nent Group extends TV rights in Scandinavia and acquires them in Iceland (2021-2025)

The free and pay-TV group Nent Group has acquired the broadcasting rights to the Bundesliga for Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland for the 2021-2025 cycle on 10/02/2020. The matches will be broadcast on Viaplay, the group's streaming platform, while certain others will also be broadcast…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 174863
• Published on 11/02/20 at 13:30
©  Premier League
Premier League: "We will move to direct-to-consumer and traditional media right sales" (R. Masters)

"During the last (rights bidding) process (for the 2019-2022 seasons) we spent quite a lot of time and invested a lot of resources in building our expertise and capacity in 'direct-to-consumer'. We considered whether strategically it would be the right time to test a few markets then and decided…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Authorities, Agencies, Digital, …
• Article # 174783
• Published on 10/02/20 at 15:35
Premier League: Nent Group acquires broadcasting rights in Scandinavia (2022-2028)

The free and pay-TV Nent Group has acquired the broadcasting rights to the Premier League in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark for the 2022-2028 period on 06/02/2020. The matches will be broadcast by the group' s streaming platform Viaplay. Nent Group already holds these rights for the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 174621
• Published on 10/02/20 at 09:40
©  Athletic Club Bilbao
2019-20 Copa del Rey: 4.1 million viewers in Spain for Athletic Club - FC Barcelona on Cuatro

Athletic Club Bilbao (LaLiga Santander) - FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander) quarterfinal of the 2019-20 Copa del Rey (1-0), drew an average of 4.14 million viewers on the Spanish free and private TV channel Cuatro (Mediaset España), on Thursday 06/02/2020 (kick-off at 21:00 CET). This figure…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 174635
• Published on 07/02/20 at 15:19
©  Seb Lascoux
Think Football 2020: "Piracy often represents 20% of the audience" (C. Guenneteau, beIN Sports)

"We like fair competition but piracy is not. Illicit consumption of sports competitions frequently accounts for around 20% of the overall audience for an event," said Caroline Guenneteau, legal director of beIN Sports France, during the Think Football conference on 05/02/2020. Caroline…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Legal
• Article # 174623
• Published on 07/02/20 at 12:14
United States: ESPN+ (OTT) has 7.6 million subscribers (+117% since the launch of Disney+)

ESPN+, the sports OTT platform launched on 12/04/2018 in the United States at a monthly price of $4.99 (4.50 euros), has 7.6 million subscribers, announced Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, parent company of the ESPN, on 04/02/2020. This figure has increased by 117% since November…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 174478
• Published on 07/02/20 at 09:35
©  werderbremen
DFB-Pokal: 7.49 million viewers in Germany for Werder Bremen - Borussia Dortmund on ARD

SV Werder Bremen (Bundesliga) - Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga), Round of 16 of the 2019-20 DFB-Pokal (3-2), drew an average 7.49 million viewers on the German public TV channel ARD, on Tuesday 04/02/2020 (kick-off at 20:45 CET). This figure represented an audience share of 25.8%, which ranked…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 174502
• Published on 06/02/20 at 16:59
©  Seb Lascoux
Think Football 2020: "We've submitted an application to create our channel" (J. Bergeaud, Mediapro)

"We have submitted an application to the CSA (French audiovisual control body) for an agreement to create our channel. We will truly be the channel and the home of French football, the home of all the clubs, the big clubs, but also of all the others. We are going to broadcast a 24/7 channel…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Media Audiences, Authorities, Agencies, …
• Article # 174497
• Published on 06/02/20 at 15:19
©  D.R.
2019-20 LaLiga Santander: a cumulative audience of 4.2 million viewers in Spain for Matchday 22

Nine of the ten games on Matchday 22 of the 2019-20 LaLiga Santander season, played from 01 to 02/02/2020, posted a cumulative average audience of 4.227 million viewers in Spain (3.705 million on the Movistar LaLiga pay-TV channels and 522,000 on free-TV channel Gol) according to data from the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 174330
• Published on 06/02/20 at 11:45
©  D.R.
2019-20 Bundesliga: a cumulative audience of 3.6 million viewers for Matchday 20 on Sky Deutschland

Eight of the nine games on Matchday 20 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga season, played from 31/01 to 02/02/2020, posted a cumulative average audience of 3.62 million viewers on the channels of the pay-TV group Sky Deutschland, according to data from the German audience measurement institutes AGF and GfK…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 174292
• Published on 06/02/20 at 10:25