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Sportradar has added DATA.BET, Esportsbull and GRID to its Unified Odds Feed, giving betting operators a choice of esports odds providers through a single integration. Operators will be able to choose their preferred provider title by title, subject to availability and commercial terms. At launch…
T1 has added two-time Masters champion Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo to its Valorant roster for VCT Pacific in 2027. The move ends his retirement and builds on T1's signing of crashies, who has just left London-based Fnatic.
Aurora Gaming came from a map down to beat F9 EICAR 2-1 and win the first VCT EMEA Kickoff Europe open qualifier. The win came days after they were put back into the bracket when the UK team BONK was disqualified for cheating.
Aurora Gaming beat Pixel Lumina 2-0 to reach the Europe Qualifier 1 final, days after the UK side that had knocked them out was disqualified for cheating. The final decides seeding for the Europe Qualifier Playoffs, the next step towards VCT EMEA Kickoff 2027 in Berlin.
With more than 400 races across six days of competition, Henley Royal Regatta is the most prestigious event in the rowing calendar. Telling the complete story of such a packed
Pay-TV broadcaster Sky Sports has secured exclusive live broadcast rights across the UK and Ireland for WTGL, the new tech-focused women’s team golf league launched in partnership with the LPGA Tour and TMRW Sports.
World Netball has announced that the netball competition at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games generated a record-breaking reach of over 55 million viewers across global broadcast and digital platforms.
Sky Sports will broadcast the inaugural 2026 and 2027 seasons of the women’s TGL (WTGL) exclusively in the UK, as part of an expansion of its golf rights that also
Sky Sports and 1071 Media, the production company founded by former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate and Jimmy Worrall, will make and distribute three long-form football shows for social and digital platforms. Sky Media will handle commercial sales for all three. The Football Dugout is a new…
HPE and Brentford Football Club have announced a partnership to enhance the digital fan experience at the club’s Gtech Community Stadium. During Premier League matches, thousands of supporters, employees, stewards and stadium operations teams use HPE’s network to stay connected. The platform…
DAZN has secured an exclusive option on the global streaming rights to the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup, according to the Guardian. The deal extends the streaming platform’s relationship with football’s world governing body. DAZN paid $1bn (£745m) for the global rights to the first 32-team Club World…
UK outside broadcast specialist Cloudbass has completed a proof of concept for software-defined production that it says could significantly reduce the onsite infrastructure and physical footprint needed for an OB.
TNT Sports will show England’s white-ball tour of Australia and March’s 150th Anniversary Test live and exclusively in the UK, after agreeing a broadcast deal with Cricket Australia. Channel 5 will reach a free-to-air audience with exclusive highlights of every match on England’s tour, shown on its…
ESPN’s deal to acquire the NFL Network, NFL Fantasy and the rights to distribute the NFL RedZone channel to cable and satellite operators was given the regulatory nod in February
As the NFL continues to expand its roster of international games, so the need for technology that can be easily transported across the globe becomes ever-more important. For the league,
NEP has been working across all NFL International Series games over the last two months, from Australia and Brazil to the UK and mainland Europe. NEP Australia was on hand
Sky Sports has launched Minus 1, a new digital series offering a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Women’s Super League players, with Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone and Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson featuring in the opening episode. The series is designed to bring fans closer…
Aposto, the event operations software provider, will work with the EFL from early 2027 to deliver CrowdVista™, a league-wide intelligence sharing network for matchday operations. Safety and security teams at clubs often work from different formats and different data, so useful information can stay…
CBS Sports will be the exclusive U.S. Spanish-language rights holder for the Concacaf Champions Cup, adding to the English-language rights announced by the company and Concacaf in July. Paramount+ will
Manchester-founded sports technology company Rezzil has secured $10m in new investment, with the Premier League continuing its backing alongside new investor Jobe Bellingham, as the business prepares to expand its operations in the UK and North America. The funding round also includes existing…
