Starting with the ’16-17 season, France Télévisions and Eurosport have joined up with the French Rugby Federation (FFR) to help promote women’s rugby, in particular France’s top-tier women’s competition, Top8. France Télévisions is the exclusive broadcaster of the French Women’s rugby team for the Women’s Six Nations tournament, the Women’s World Cup and the Top8 final, and will continue its involvement in women’s rugby. With the new deal, Eurosport will show eight Top8 matches this season, as well as the final in a co-broadcast agreement with France Télévisions (FFR).
American network GolTV has secured the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights for the annual championship match between the winners of the Serie A and Coppa Italia.
The match between Juventus and AC Milan will be broadcast live by GolTV on Friday at 11:30am (EST) from the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar (GolTV).
The Competition Appeals Tribunal has rejected BT’s appeal against Ofcom’s decision "to drop the ‘wholesale must offer’ requirements" on Sky in pay-TV sport. Ofcom "unshackled" Sky in '15 when it dropped the requirement for strictly regulated rates for its sports channels when wholesaling those channels to rivals including Virgin Media. The judgement stated that "it is important to remember that regulation is not a 'one way street,' and it is not only failure to intervene that can be problematic" (FINANCIAL TIMES, 12/21).
Eleven Sports launched Eleven Sports Pass, a new package featuring a pricing strategy which aims to disrupt the traditional consumption of premium sport in Singapore, for less than S$1 ($0.70) per week (Eleven Sports).
