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Italy: Mediaset acquires free-to-air + paid streaming rights to the Champions League (2021-2024)

Mediaset has acquired the rights to broadcast 121 Champions League matches per season in Italy over the 2021-2024 cycle, including 17 free-to-air matches (Tuesday's top fixture + the final) and 104 matches for its paid streaming platform, announced the Italian audiovisual group on…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 209087
• Published on 22/02/21 at 09:40
TV rights: "Definitely going to be a correction in the value of the rights" (S. Green, BT Sport)

"There’s certainly going to be a rights correction and it may be seen and interpreted by many as rights deflation," Simon Green, managing director of the British pay-TV package BT Sport, said at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit on 17/02/2021. "It would be a welcome change to the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 209023
• Published on 19/02/21 at 17:05
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Europa League: 656,000 TV viewers for LOSC Lille - AFC Ajax in France (Audience share: 2.9%)

LOSC Lille (Ligue 1 Uber Eats) - AFC Ajax (Eredivisie), 1-2, the Round of 32 first leg match in the 2020-21 Europa League, drew 656,000 viewers in France on average on the private, free-TV channel RMC Story (Groupe Altice France), on Thursday 19/02/2021 (kick-off at 21:00 CET), according to data…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Clubs
• Article # 209015
• Published on 19/02/21 at 16:29
TV rights: StarTimes threatened with liquidation (non-payment to beIN for Ligue 1 rights in Africa)

StarTimes, a Chinese-owned audiovisual group established in Africa, is facing the threat of compulsory liquidation following the non-payment of its installments for the broadcasting rights, in sub-Saharan Africa (in English language) to Ligue 1, to the Qatari group of pay-TV beIN Media Group…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Essentials Media
• Article # 208956
• Published on 19/02/21 at 11:29
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Serie A TV rights: DAZN considers that the advance payment proposed by Sky Italia is illegitimate

The pay-TV operator Sky Italia is reported to have offered to pay the Lega Serie A, if awarded the domestic broadcasting rights for the 2021-2024 Serie A TIM cycle, €505m three days after the rights are awarded, according to the Italian media on 17/02/2021. This amount corresponds mainly to the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Authorities, Agencies, …
• Article # 208858
• Published on 18/02/21 at 16:00
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Champions League: Barça-PSG watched by nearly 1.5 million viewers in Spain and 1 million in France

FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander) - Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), 1-4, the Round of 16 first leg of the 2020-21 Champions League, drew, in France, "nearly 1 million viewers on average" on the channel RMC Sport 1, on Tuesday 16/02/2021 (kick-off at 21:00 CET), indicated the Altice France…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Clubs
• Article # 208859
• Published on 18/02/21 at 15:29
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Premier League: all matches to be broadcast live in the UK until spectators return

All Premier League matches will be broadcast live in the UK by the English League's broadcast rights holders in the 2019-2022 cycle (Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon, and the BBC), until spectators return to the stadiums in the country, announced the English League on 17/02/2021. The Premier…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 208826
• Published on 18/02/21 at 12:44
©  OL
LFP TV rights: "We asked to extend the calls for tenders from 4 to 10 years" (J-M Aulas, OL)

"We asked during our meeting with the (French government) ministers (Tuesday 16/02/2021) about the possibility of extending the duration of calls for tenders for TV rights from four to ten years. This is a reform that does not cost anything to the State, and which would allow the League (LFP) to…
Domain(s): Clubs, Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Authorities, Agencies, …
• Article # 208764
• Published on 18/02/21 at 10:40
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Mediapro: agreement with Concacaf for the commercialization of the rights to several competitions

Concacaf and the Chinese-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro announced an agreement for the international marketing of media rights "of the most important competitions organized by the Confederation, including the 2021 Gold Cup and the Concacaf Champions League", on 12/02/2021 . "Concacaf, in…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 208609
• Published on 17/02/21 at 15:39
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2020-21 LaLiga Santander: a cumulative audience of 4.22 million viewers in Spain for Matchday 23

The 10 games on Matchday 23 of the 2020-21 LaLiga Santander season, played behind closed doors from 12 to 15/02/2021, posted a cumulative audience of 4.22 million viewers in Spain (3.492 million on the Movistar LaLiga pay-TV channels and 730,000 on the free-TV channel Gol) according to data from…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 208563
• Published on 17/02/21 at 10:53