Discovery and the European Tour announced a new partnership that will see GOLFTV continue to expand its portfolio and move toward becoming the established "digital home of golf" for fans around the world. The agreement includes live int'l multi-platform rights, in selected territories, to all European Tour events and the next two Ryder Cups, as well as Discovery collaborating to grow the European Tour's digital platforms. The partnership will bring coverage of the European Tour and Ryder Cup together under GOLFTV (Discovery).
Wimbledon will continue to be broadcast by Sky Deutschland. The German pay-TV operator and the All England Lawn Tennis Club agreed on an extension of their partnership until '22. Sky will continue to cover the Grand Slam tournament in Germany, Austria and Switzerland live over the next four years -- in Germany and Austria exclusively (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 12/13).
Poland's Ekstraklasa signed a two year-agreement with Canal+ and public broadcaster TVP. Covering the '19-20 and '20-21 seasons, thanks to what it calls an "innovative construction of media packages," the agreement includes all 296 games per season carried on DTH platform nc+. TVP will show 37 games per season (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 12/13).
7Sports, a sports business subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1, announced a new joint venture with community platform eSports.com. While continuing to broadcast live esports competitions and highlights on ProSieben Maxx, 7Sports will use eSports.com to distribute its digital content for the German, Swiss and Austrian market (THE ESPORTS OBSERVER, 12/13).
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