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Sponsorship & Marketing

US Ski & Snowboard (USS) has signed the most lucrative sponsorship deal in its history, a renewal with wealth management and investment banking company Stifel Financial that runs through the 'home' Winter…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has awarded new Global Partner inventory to Azerbaijan’s state tourism agency in a five-year deal.
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Industry Moves

David Nilsson is standing down from his role managing Ski Classics, having launched the initial concept for the series of long-distance skiing events 17 years ago
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Media

Races on the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) World Cup calendar are to return to Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT next year.
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Media

All major national ski associations with the sole exception of Austria have now signed up to World Cup media rights centralisation from 2026-27 onwards, paving the way for Infront to implement its agency…
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Finance & Law

A €400m ($423m) proposal from CVC Capital Partners for a 20-per-cent shareholding in the commercial rights to snow sports has been dismissed by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS).
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Media

A Norwegian blackout of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup season-opener in Sölden, Austria has been averted after the VG TV platform of newspaper VG bought the rights.
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Media

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has won over one of its strongest critics in its battle to centralise media rights, striking an agreement with Svenska Skidförbundet (SFF), the Swedish …
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Finance & Law

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) has insisted its plan to introduce media rights centralisation is still on track, despite a potentially damaging legal defeat in Germany.
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Media

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) will on Monday issue an invitation to tender (ITT) for global media rights to the Alpine and Nordic World Ski Championships in 2027 and 2029, SportBusiness understands.
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Finance & Law

The Austrian Ski Federation claims to be facing seven-figure damages as it readies legal action over the process by which media rights centralisation was voted through by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council.
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Media

Leading ski federation claim to be making progress in talks with the International Ski and Snowboard Federation over media rights centralisation but are still 'far away' from an agreement.
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Media

The FIS World Cup renewal between the EBU and the Romanian Ski and Biathlon Federation comes against the backdrop of ongoing resistance from national associations to centralised rights sales plans for the sport.
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Media

A controversial vote on Friday by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council to push through media rights centralisation has reignited a dispute with Europe’s leading ski associations w…
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Events

Crans-Montana’s hosting of the 2027 Alpine Ski World Championships is in doubt amid a dispute between the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and Swiss-Ski over financial guarantees.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Norwegian ski team athletes have won a breakthrough ruling in pursuit of greater control of their image rights in a long-running dispute with the Norwegian Skiing Association (NSF)
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Media

The International Ski Federation (FIS) is live-streaming several World Cup events across its own platforms this winter sports season as part of its new centralised media rights agreement with the Infront…
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Media

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and Infront have hammered out the details of a centralised media rights ‘framework agreement’ that brings to an end a long-running feud over the own…