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Media Notes: FIA WTCC Confirms Deal With Broadcaster J SPORTS

The FIA World Touring Car Championship in Japan confirmed a live TV agreement between WTCC promoter Eurosport Events and J SPORTS. J SPORTS will broadcast live coverage of WTCC races this season, plus highlights from qualifying and the WTCC MAC3 team time trial in the build-up to the race action across its four branded channels and website (WTCC).

Univision’s Fusion Media Group introduced a website dedicated to covering esports, "its first new media property" since buying bankrupt Gawker Media last year. Editors of sports website Deadspin and gaming-themed Kotaku will run the new publication, called Compete, "starting with two full-time writers who will cover the news and culture of competitive video-gaming." Gillette "will be the sole advertiser for the first six months" (BLOOMBERG, 2/23).

German car and motor sports channel Motorvision TV will become available on Wednesday on Watch it!, a new multi-screen OTT platform launching in Germany and France. Watch it!, "currently in Beta test mode, provides thematic TV channels from the areas of entertainment, music, sports, lifestyle and series" as live streams (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 2/24).

Goal.com owner Perform Media partnered with Suggestv to target its ePlayer product with "contextually relevant video across its publisher partners," which include Trinity Mirror, MailOnline and the London Independent. Perform Media provides video to more than 500 publishers through its ePlayer platform. Now ePlayer is using Suggestv’s semantic technology to "automatically match relevant video content with the context of the article" (THE DRUM, 2/24).

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