Host Broadcast & Production

IMG has announced a welcome contract retention for its production business, striking a multi-year agreement with Major League Soccer that centralises the league's media efforts

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has gone to market with an array of production, media distribution, betting and sponsorship rights to its cycle of ‘Pathway’ events between 2025 and 2027.

The European League of Football (ELF) is “not far away” from profitability as it prepares to enter its fifth season and after cutting costs by turning to a remote broadcast production model, according to co-founder Zeljko Karajica.

IMG is to continue its wide-ranging media rights distribution, sponsorship sales support, consultancy and service provision role with Euroleague Basketball for another 10 years after both parties committed to a new agreement.

SportBusiness takes a look at 12 months of Premier League deals and developments covered by our team of reporters.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is looking for an agency to sell media rights to its World Cup Series and aims to finalise a four-year contract by the end of next month, SportBusiness understands

Microphones placed within substitutes' benches could be coming to German football in a move championed by DAZN, one of the Bundesliga's main domestic broadcast rights-holders.

IMG will lose its long-held and lucrative Premier League broadcast production business from 2026-27 after the English top flight decided to take the operations in-house in a major blow to the agency

Infront has tied down more media rights business in athletics in a two-edition deal to sell international broadcast rights to the new World Athletics Ultimate Championship

Broadcast revenues at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) are budgeted to drop by 8 per cent in 2025 in a continued shift to digital content and time-buys to maximise sponsorship income.

The media agency operation formed out of Two Circles’ acquisition of Spring Media has no plans to put down large minimum guarantees and will focus on a “new era” of rights monetisation, according to leaders at both companies.

Two Circles has finalised an agreement to acquire the Spring Media agency as it moves into broadcast rights sales for the first time, also adding production and direct-to-consumer streaming capabilities…

Mediapro has described the termination of its long-held Colombian league production services agreement with pay-television broadcaster Win Sports as both abrupt and unjustifiable

Host Broadcast Services, the Infront-owned sports broadcast production company, will continue to produce the host broadcast for all Rugby World Cups through to 2029

LaLiga club FC Barcelona enjoyed record sponsorship revenue in 2023-24 but recorded an overall loss of €91m ($101m) due to defaulting payments from investors in its Barça Vision digital vertical.

Danish Superliga domestic rights-holder Viaplay claims to have terminated its agreement with Matchday Production just over two months into the joint venture’s first season of handling the host broadcast f…