A reality TV show will follow the life of U.S. women's football player Alex Morgan, who recently signed with French club Olympique Lyonnais. Morgan has 4.5 million followers on Instagram, 3 million on Facebook and 2.8 million more on Twitter. The French club "wants to profit from the signing," and its media department will create the reality show following Morgan. It will "air the series on the Internet" (MUNDO DEPORTIVO, 1/8).
The Int'l Handball Federation World Men's Handball Championship 2017 "will now be streamed in Germany by a local bank and YouTube." Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB), the main sponsor of Germany’s domestic handball league Handball Bundesliga, has "acquired the exclusive live broadcast rights from rights holder beIN Media Group and will show all games of the German team and other matches live." Financial details have "not been disclosed." German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF "would have liked to broadcast the Handball World Cup 2017 live, but the rights holder opposed their free-to-air satellite transmission" (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 1/5).
The Confederation of African Football has "strongly denied that a deal with a media company for broadcast rights to several African football tournaments has broken any laws." On Wednesday, the Egyptian Competition Authority said that it had referred CAF President Issa Hayatou "to prosecutors for investigation." CAF said that the reports "were false" (BBC, 1/5).
Ditto TV "will be broadcasting" the I-League and English Football League Cup in '17. The I-League started with a game between East Bengal and Aizawl, followed by Bengaluru and Shillong Lajong on Jan. 7 (MARKET 4 SPORTS, 1/6).
Boxing fans will have to pay £12.95 ($15.92) to watch Chris Eubank Jr. take on Renold Quinlan on ITV pay-per-view. The fight -- for the "lightly-regarded" IBO super-middleweight title -- will take place at the Olympia in London on Feb. 4. The clash "represents ITV's first venture into the PPV model which has become a mainstay of Sky Sports" (London DAILY MIRROR, 1/8).
