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YouTube’s NFL deal turns up the heat in battle for sports rights | Sports rights
YouTube’s $14bn (£11.6bn) deal to stream National Football League (NFL) games marks the latest incursion by a Silicon Valley giant into territory traditionally dominated by broadcasters and pay-TV companies, as live sport becomes the latest battleground for audiences and profits promised by the streaming revolution. The Google-owned YouTube’s seven-year deal, which will see the world’s largest video platform take over the “Sunday Ticket” package of games held by the US satellite service DirecTV since 1994, followed an auction that included heavy interest from its fellow big tech company Apple. The deal is the latest in a series of commercially eye-popping deals by the NFL, the most expensive live sports rights…
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beIN SPORTS Renews Exclusive Rights for CONMEBOL Libertadores, CONMEBOL Sudamericana and CONMEBOL Recopa
The multiplatform settlement for U.S. and Canada covers four editions of South America’s most compelling club competitions. The renewal extends the partnership in between the community and CONMEBOL from 2023-2026 MIAMI, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — beIN Athletics and CONMEBOL introduced nowadays the renewal of the special U.S. and Canada broadcasting rights for the most prestigious club tournaments in South The us together with CONMEBOL Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana and CONMEBOL Recopa. The renewal of this broadcast multiplatform offer will lengthen for 4 seasons of the competitions from 2023-2026. The multiplatform agreement for U.S. and Canada covers four editions of South America’s most powerful club competitions. The settlement guarantees new and present…
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Pac-12 media rights deal on hold as league awaits resolution on UCLA’s Big Ten status from regents meeting
The Pac-12’s long, winding road toward long-term security was never supposed to last this long. It is mid-December, and the league still must wait on the conclusion of Wednesday’s University of California system regents meeting to proceed in its media rights negotiations. Almost six months after news broke of USC and UCLA departing for the Big Ten in 2024, the league still has not reconfigured. While it is considered almost a formality by some that UCLA will ultimately be allowed to join the Big Ten, the regents’ concerns dragging the process out this long has added a layer of skittishness to the proceedings. “It has significantly impacted the timeline,” Pac-12…
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Biden Education Dept disbands national parents council after parental rights groups sue
The U.S. Division of Instruction is disbanding its recently made countrywide mothers and fathers council just after a number of parental rights teams sued, alleging it was politically biased and violated federal regulation, according to court documents filed Monday. The division sparked a firestorm over the summer time after it introduced its new Nationwide Dad and mom and Family members Engagement Council as a means to uncover “constructive approaches to support family members interact at the regional level.” Combat for Faculties, Parents Defending Instruction, and The united states To start with Legal submitted a joint federal lawsuit in July saying the council violated several provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) that…