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Tennis

Veritone licensing deal with Tennis Australia

Veritone, a provider of digital asset management, licensing and metadata solutions, has announced a content licensing agreement with Tennis Australia, the governing body of tennis in Australia and host of the Australian Open, one of the sport’s four annual Grand Slam tournaments. The agreement enables Veritone to license archival match footage from the Australian Open […]

July 2, 2024

DAZN distributes Tennis TV in LatAm, Brazil, Caribbean

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, and ATP Media, has announced a partnership which will see Tennis TV, ATP Media’s direct-to-consumer service, distributed as a stand-alone channel on the DAZN platform across Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean. This deal will offer tennis fans across these regions another way to access action from the ATP Tour […]

June 25, 2024

WBD acquires US rights to French Open

TNT Sports, a division of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), has reached a 10-year agreement with the French Tennis Federation to add Roland-Garros to its portfolio of sports rights in the US. beginning in 2025. This new deal – building on Eurosport’s 35-year relationship with Roland-Garros – will make WBD the largest global broadcast partner to […]

June 12, 2024

Eurosports draws record audiences for Roland Garros

Eurosport reports that its production of this year’s Roland-Garros tennis tournament engaged larger audiences across Europe than ever before across all platforms. With the launch of Max, Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) enhanced streaming service including Eurosport, combined with its other streaming platforms including discovery+, unique streaming viewers grew by 29 per cent year-on-year with streaming […]

June 12, 2024

All Wimbledon Centre Court games in UHD on BBC

From July 1st, audiences can tune into comprehensive live match coverage of Wimbledon 2024 exclusively on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer, as well as listen to the latest news from the courts across BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds. All matches from the tournament will be available on BBC […]

June 10, 2024

LTA signs UK deal with Tennis Channel

The LTA and the Tennis Channel struck a four-year deal to stream coverage of its grass court tour events at Nottingham, Birmingham, The Queen’s Club and Eastbourne. The deal will give Tennis Channel the rights to every court at the events, with complete coverage of both singles and doubles competitions of the tour level events. […]

June 10, 2024

WBD sees record audiences for Roland-Garros week 1

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced its coverage of the first week of Roland-Garros saw record audiences on its streaming platforms and has delivered its highest tournament television audience on Eurosport in eight years. Across Europe (excluding France), viewership on Eurosport’s television channels has risen by +45 per cent year-on-year with WBD’s total streaming audience, […]

June 4, 2024

Study: Gender gap narrowing in Gen Z sports engagement

The gap between female and male engagement in sport is narrowing, with Gen Z adult female engagement figures on the rise, according to the EY Sports Engagement Index. The EY survey of over 4,000 UK adults uses comparative data to identify engagement levels across a range of sports by measuring the number of adults actively […]

June 3, 2024

WBD extends Wimbledon rights in 11 markets

The Wimbledon tennis tournament will remain on Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) channels and platforms in 11 markets in Europe through a new long-term rights agreement with The All England Lawn Tennis Club. The broadcast partnership means Wimbledon will continue to be shown on Eurosport in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, […]

May 30, 2024

HBO & Max doc NASTY arrives on Max

The original bad boy of tennis, Romanian player Ilie Năstase is the subject of NASTY, a new documentary that chronicles his life and outstanding career of achievements. The co-production for Max between HBO Documentaries Europe and Romanian Libra Films, will be released in 23 territories in the week of the Max streaming platform’s launch across […]

May 15, 2024