BeIN Sports, the international pay-television broadcaster, will not be showing the Bundesliga in the Middle East and North Africa in the 2020-21 season, which gets under way this evening, after failing to agree terms in a market where it believes rights have been seriously devalued by the surge in piracy.

Changes to the Premier League media landscape necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic could have a lasting impact on future contracts for English soccer’s elite, Barney Francis, one of the UK’s most revered sports broadcast executives, has predicted.

The Pro League has expanded partnerships with Stats Perform, the international sports data and technology provider, and Sorare, the blockchain platform, which represent the latest tie-ups as part of Belgian soccer's new innovation project to grow its international reach.

Rick Dudley, the chairman and chief executive of Octagon, has outlined the agency's response to the impact of Covid-19, the benefits of stability and big event strategies.

Brazilian soccer’s top-tier Campeonato Brasileiro has all the ingredients to become a top five league worldwide, but its clubs have been let down by a non-existent international media strategy, new rights-holder Global Sports Rights Management has told Sportcal.

Much has been written lately about the International Olympic Committee's finances. Some of these commentaries have revealed a profound misunderstanding of the global body and its mission.

Barry Hearn, the UK sports promoter, does not expect Matchroom Live, his company’s new over-the-top subscription streaming platform, to be profitable until at least the latter half of 2022, but is confident it will become a key part of the group’s revenue stream and even an important media outlet for third parties in the years ahead.

Leagues and federations worldwide must brace themselves for “very uncomfortable conversations” over the next few weeks as broadcasters’ lawyers wade through the terms of rights contracts amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak that has decimated the global sporting calendar, Sportcal has been told.

The local organising committee for this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo has admitted that the spread of the deadly coronavirus is a major concern ahead of the event.

The US broadcast of American football’s iconic Super Bowl on Sunday evening secured an average television audience of 99.9 million on national network Fox, an increase of 1.7 per cent on the figure for last year's event.