[Scratch_Perry]

ITV renews horse racing deal until end of 2026

www.itv.com 

ITV have done such a good job with racing - C4 really stuffed it up when they got exclusivity.   I suspect had they retained High Flyer Productions and kept the signature C4 Racing style, which ITV Racing have certainly emulated, they may have retained them come 2017.


I'm guessing the Cheltenham deal though prevents ITV showing the last couple of races with them held back for Racing UK (I assume) - they seem to have to be off air by 4.30pm when at least going through to 5pm would make sense.

Correct; ITV - and Channel 4 before them - are only contracted to show the first 5 races each day of the Festival, with the final 2 races exclusive to Racing TV.

It will also be the same come the Grand National meeting, but then it's only the first race and the last race each day that are exclusive to RTV, meaning ITV are on air from 1.45pm to 5.00pm on the Thursday and Friday and 6.00pm on Grand National day.

[Newshound47]

ITV renews horse racing deal until end of 2026

www.itv.com 

Yet we still await "official confirmation" from them regarding the acquisition of the IPL cricket rights (jointly with DAZN) and the FIFA Women's World Cup (jointly with BBC).

I wonder if they might keep the Women’s World Cup announcement until the Finalissima on the 6th April.

[Scratch_Perry]

Yet we still await "official confirmation" from them regarding the acquisition of the IPL cricket rights (jointly with DAZN) and the FIFA Women's World Cup (jointly with BBC).

I wonder if they might keep the Women’s World Cup announcement until the Finalissima on the 6th April.

Have ITV confirmed that they will be covering the Finalissima?

Regarding the IPL, there must be something going on as to why they can't confirm it (an embargo?), because England batsman Jonny Bairstow was interviewed on the ITV racing coverage from Cheltenham this afternoon and he mentioned his IPL team, and something like that would be a prompter to mention upcoming cricket coverage that they would have.

[Rdd]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned here but DAZN are launching a linear channel on Sky (channel 429) on 23rd March, through existing DAZN customers will apparently have to cancel and re-subscribe to get it.

www.dazn.com 

DAZN launches channel 429 on Sky ahead of Anthony Joshua fight on April 1 | DAZN…
Subscribing to DAZN 1 HD grants access to the entire DAZN service via the DAZN a…
  Source: www.dazn.com

[NI92]

All games from this years Rugby World Cup to be broadcast on Free to Air in Ireland on RTE and Virgin Media in a deal similar to the current deal for the 6 Nations. Both broadcaaters will broadcast the final and the rest of the games to be equally shared.

Last time TV3 had full rights was 2015 and RTE was 2003, every other world cup since the millennium apart from the aforementioned whether on TV3 as it was or RTE since had all Ireland matches, opening game and knockout matches live

www.rte.ie 

RTÉ and Virgin Media to broadcast Rugby World Cup
RTÉ and Virgin Media Television today announced details of a partnership to broa…
  Source: www.rte.ie

[Brekkie]

Sensible.

Worth noting the Mens World Cup in that other sport have now scrapped the three team group idea, having realised it meant starting the tournament with a risk of basically 48 fairly routine group games and in theory 16 second round games where the big teams were kept apart. Instead it'll be 12 groups of 4, then still a round of 32 but perhaps with more chances of a few noteably match ups. That does make it 104 games though, so at least 52 each on the BBC and ITV, up by 20 from the current split.

I don't think FIFA have much regard for how much more expensive that'll make it for broadcasters to cover - they just assume more matches will see broadcasters willing to pay more for the rights, but not so sure that'll be the case given the increased production costs.

[Rdd]

All games from this years Rugby World Cup to be broadcast on Free to Air in Ireland on RTE and Virgin Media in a deal similar to the current deal for the 6 Nations. Both broadcaaters will broadcast the final and the rest of the games to be equally shared.

Last time TV3 had full rights was 2015 and RTE was 2003, every other world cup since the millennium apart from the aforementioned whether on TV3 as it was or RTE since had all Ireland matches, opening game and knockout matches live

www.rte.ie 

I think TV3 had full rights in 2007? 

Setanta and eir had the full rights for at least two of them, 2011 and 2019 I think, with sub licenses of the protected games to RTE and VMTV. The 2011 one had the infamous studio pairing of Matt Williams and Neill Francis with no specialised presenter (Williams effectively doubled as presenter and pundit) all presented from Dublin.

Meanwhile I see BBC NI has demoted its traditional St Patrick’s Day sports coverage to the iPlayer? May not be the first time mind you.

[thegeek]

What better time to refresh your league's title sequence than, er, two thirds of the way through a season? Serie A have done just that - the titles look alright, but the music's not very exciting. The 'BeIT' sponsorship (which this article says should have run until last August) has now gone.

Serie A teams up with firms to promote 'beIT' campaign | SportsMint Media
Serie A has partnered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Coo…
  Source: sportsmintmedia.com

[dvboy]

Minor observation, Amazon have dropped the word "video" from their branding of the tennis coverage - the microphone covers and cue cards being used by the presenters and pundits are branded simply "Prime" now, although the DOG is still "Prime Video".

[Rdd]

Seemingly a solution has been found for existing customers of the DAZN streaming service to access the linear channel (DAZN 1 HD) on Sky after a bit of a backlash. Why they didn’t sort it before announcement who knows.