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MediaKind has announced that CNBC UK has selected Beam to modernize its contribution and distribution infrastructure for live broadcast operations. The deployment will enable CNBC UK to move live news
Techex has appointed Stuart Almond as Chief Revenue Officer. Almond brings more than 25 years of experience across technology, media, and telecommunications, having held senior roles at Qvest, Microsoft, and
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…
The 2026 European Athletics Championships (Aug. 10-16) brought the continental championships to England for the first time, and the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham drew 40 TV and radio outlets and
Prime Video has revealed 67 regular-season games from the 2026/27 NBA season that it will stream across Europe. The second season of NBA on Prime tips off with a doubleheader
YouTube star KSI, DAZN and Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club have agreed a broadcast and distribution partnership for the 2026/27 season designed to bring supporters closer to the action than
Manchester United FC football fan channel, The United Stand, has grown far beyond its origins as a webcam-based online community. The channel now reaches 2.26 million YouTube subscribers and has
Digital sports platform and YouTube football channel The Overlap has agreed a headline sponsorship deal with streaming service Disney+ for the upcoming 2026/2027 football season. Under the one-year agreement, Disney+ will serve as the headline sponsor for both the platform’s multi-award-winning…
From behind-the-scenes cameras in the refurbished Millennium Building to courtside ‘whisper positions’, Wimbledon’s coverage keeps evolving – working ever more closely with its 42 global broadcast partners while balancing increased
From a first-of-its-kind accessibility feed to a new graphics supplier and the BBC’s Signals layer, The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) is opening The Championships to new and underserved
Wimbledon Broadcast Services (WBS) has a tradition of broadcasting firsts, but a hard rule about the field of play. The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s (AELTC) Paul Davies, associate director,
LiveU’s LU900Q intelligent production unit was deployed as part of the host broadcast operation for the Games in Glasgow (July 23–August 2, 2026). Host broadcaster Actua Sport deployed 14 LiveU
The BBC has acquired the UK broadcast rights to ATHLOS London, becoming the domestic home of the women’s athletics event’s first international edition. The agreement marks the first partnership between the broadcaster and ATHLOS, with coverage to be made available across the BBC’s digital…
Poland’s Ekstraklasa and production arm Live Park have entered into a multi-year agreement with Hawk-Eye Innovations to deploy a package of tracking, officiating, performance-analysis, and broadcast-enhancement technologies across the country’s
ABC Commercial has launched four free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels on LG Smart TVs across North America, Great Britain, and select countries in Asia, Europe, and the Nordics, available
Gravity Media has added MT501 to its UK fleet of outside broadcast trucks. The vehicle made its debut at the 2026 Betfred World Matchplay in Blackpool as part of Sky
CBS Sports and Concacaf today announced a new multi-year media rights agreement that makes Paramount+ the exclusive English-language home in the United States for the Concacaf Champions Cup, Concacaf Central
Prime Video and Rogers Communications have announced a 12-year agreement for Prime Video in Canada to exclusively broadcast Wednesday night regular-season national NHL games in English and French, beginning with
As Australia celebrated beating England in the final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup earlier this month, it was already clear that the tournament had broken new ground for
Gravity Media has added a scalable production vehicle to its UK fleet of outside broadcast (OB) trucks. Making its debut at the 2026 World Matchplay in Blackpool as part of Sky Sports’
