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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.
RTÉ combined Calrec’s Type R system with its SMPTE ST 2110 network to change how it mixed commentary for the 2026 World Football Championship. Where six commentary booths once needed
SES and Sky have announced a new multi-year agreement for direct-to-home satellite services across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, running into the next decade. Sky will continue to
DAZN has renewed its Serie A broadcast rights in the UK and Ireland for the 2026/27 season. The agreement ensures that every Serie A match will continue to be available on the platform for viewers in the UK and Ireland throughout the upcoming campaign. During each round of fixtures, seven matches…
World Snooker Tour (WST) has extended its domestic broadcast rights agreement with TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland until the end of the 2030-2031 season. Under the terms of the multi-year extension, the broadcaster has secured the rights to show more events on the WST than any other platform. This…
Kitman Labs, the global leader in performance intelligence has announced the launch of My iP, a new reporting and visualization capability within its iP: Intelligence Platform. My iP integrates Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s enterprise-grade analytics and business intelligence infrastructure…
Sky and Formula 1 have announced a new multi-year agreement giving Sky Sports viewers in the UK and Ireland, and Sky Sport viewers in Italy, exclusive access to all the action from every
Sky Sports and NOW will be the home of Most Valuable Promotions’ new women’s boxing platform, MVPW, in the UK and Ireland, after agreeing a multi-year deal with the promoter. The deal means Sky Sports will exclusively broadcast two all-female UK fight nights every year with the card at London’s…
Sky Sports and NOW have become the UK and Ireland home for Most Valuable Promotions’ new women’s boxing platform, MVPW. Sky Sports and NOW have secured a multi-year deal with Most Valuable Promotions to broadcast the promoter’s new women’s boxing series, MVPW, in the UK and Ireland. The agreement…
The 2026 Guinness Men’s Six Nations Rugby Championship ran from Feb. 7 to March 14 and featured England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales in a tighter, five-week schedule. The
WYLDE has announced a partnership with the League of Ireland to become its esports and gaming partner. Co-owned by former Jamaican sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, the Irish esports organisation will be supporting ELOI (eLeague of Ireland), the official national EA FC esports…
Axess has implemented a fully integrated access control solution at Connacht Rugby’s redeveloped Dexcom Stadium, supporting improved matchday operations, secure ingress and enhanced data integration. In collaboration with Connacht Rugby and Conack Construction, Axess has delivered several AX500…
Irish esports organisation WYLDE has announced its exit from Rainbow Six esports after five years. The organisation, co-owned by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, cited the sustainability of operating a team in Ubisoft’s first-person shooter title as a factor behind the decision. Announced on…
Orreco has acquired Jennis, the women’s health and performance platform co-founded by Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill. The Galway-based SportTech says the move creates the ‘most advanced, women’s performance ecosystem in the world’. The deal brings together Orreco’s proprietary AI platform with its…
TNT Sports has agreed a multi-year broadcast deal to show the LIV Golf League in the UK and Ireland. Commencing in January 2026, the broadcaster has secured the rights to air all 14 global events live across its linear channels and the discovery+ streaming platform. As the official broadcast…
Sky and the PGA Tour have agreed a four-year extension to their long-standing partnership in the UK and Ireland through to the end of 2029. This follows recent extensions to
Commonwealth Sport has confirmed that Warner Bros. Discovery has secured exclusive UK live broadcast and digital media rights for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. TNT Sports has been set to deliver live coverage through a dedicated channel in the UK and Ireland, with more than 600 hours of…
France’s TOP 14 rugby league has signed 11 new broadcast partnerships and launched its first global streaming platform, TOP 14 Rugby TV. The new broadcast deals, which cover more than 90 territories for the 2025/26 season, include partnerships with Premier Sports in the UK & Ireland, FloRugby and…
The DP World Tour has extended its broadcast partnership with Sky Sports for a further four years. The new agreement, which begins in 2026, ensures Sky Sports and its streaming service NOW remain the exclusive home of the next two Ryder Cups, taking place at Adare Manor, Ireland in 2027 and…
