Turkcell’s tv platform Turkcell TV+ has become the official broadcaster of English premier league in Turkey
English premier league will be broadcasted on Turkcell TV+ through IPTV and mobile devices for the next 3 years
Among the mobile operators in Turkey, Turkcell, through Turkcell TV+ has become the “exclusive” mobile broadcaster of this league.
The WME-IMG agency has bought the Ultimate Fighting Championship for approximately $4bn, according to Dana White, the president of UFC.
Associated Press said White will stay on to run the series, with UFC’s former owners, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, retaining minority stakes, relinquishing their 81% (40.5% each) majority shares. White will also be offered shares, having previously owned 9% of the business.
It completes a remarkable turnaround for the company – White and the Fertitta brothers snapped up UFC for just $2m in 2000. The brand has gone on to become one of the most powerful sporting models in the world.
The sale comes just after UFC 200 was held in Las Vegas. The event drew more than 18,000 fans to T-Mobile Arena and generated $10.8m in ticket sales – both record highs.
With new investment, the sport’s future is bright.
The International Weightlifting Federation has banned Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan from the Olympics for anti-doping violations.
It adds further misery for Russia, who are already excluded from athletics after the IAAF’s ban.
Russia said they plan in appealing both verdicts to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The IWF announced it would hand bans to “national federations confirmed to have produced three or more anti-doping rule violations in the combined re-analysis process” of samples taken from Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
The IOC will have the chance to overrule the decisions – but they have previously said that only international federations can decide on an athlete’s technical eligibility for the Games, in regards to doping.
Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko said the idea was like “a psychotic episode”.
Bill Beaumont and Agustín Pichot have been elected World Rugby Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively, on an historic day for the international federation in Dublin.
The pair, who stood unopposed, were unanimously voted in by members of World Rugby’s Council in accordance with the bye-laws at its annual meeting. Both World Rugby Hall of Fame inductees, the pair will succeed Chairman Bernard Lapasset and Vice-Chairman Oregan Hoskins, who previously announced they would not seek re-election.
The election comes on an historic day that ushered in the implementation of expanded union representation on Council and the appointment of two independent directors to the federation’s Executive Committee.
RFU and Six Nations Rugby chairman Beaumont, has also been central to World Rugby’s decision-making bodies for more than a decade, served as vice-chairman from 2007 to 2012, and has been a key figure on the World Rugby Council, Executive Committee, Rugby World Cup Board and Rugby Committee bodies. As RFU chairman, Beaumont presided over the delivery of what will be remembered as the biggest and best Rugby World Cup to date.
Beaumont said: “I am honoured to accept the mandate of Council to serve as World Rugby chairman at what is an exciting and pivotal time for the sport. Rugby has experienced significant and rapid growth, which is a credit to Bernard Lapasset and his leadership over the past eight years.
“The sport is in excellent health and over the next four years there will be many great opportunities to further develop and grow the game. However, we cannot be complacent. Rugby, like all sports, faces challenges and my manifesto outlines the five priorities focused on addressing these. These priorities are continuing to protect players, preserving integrity, enhancing global competition, optimising partnerships and empowering and strengthening unions.
“I will nurture the roots of rugby, our fundamental values and financial security and will make rugby decisions for rugby reasons. As World Rugby Chairman, I will work with unions over the next four years to deliver healthy, sustainable growth for the game we all love.”
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The iSportconnect Digital Strategy Masterclass is taking place tomorrow and the excitement is building for what is shaping up to be a memorable event.
This Masterclass will take place at the Grange Hotel Wellington, doctor London on 13th April and will include a number of high-profile panellists and delegates.
You can view a full agenda for the Digital Masterclass HERE.
Among the panelists will be:
– Rüdiger Müller, pharmacy levitra. Head of Digital at FIFA
– Tracey Keenan, allergy General Manager of WWE UK and Ireland
– James Elliott, UFC Vice President and General Manager EMEA
– Jeffrey Haas, Chief International Officer at Draft Kings
– Mark Lichtenhein, Chairman of the Sports Rights Owners Coalition
– Stefan Kürten, Director of Sports Rights at European Broadcasting Union
– Bernd Huwe, Director of Sports and Entertainment at SAP
– Luis Goicouria, Senior Vice President of Digital Platforms and Media Strategy at the PGA TOUR
The iSportconnect Digital Strategy Masterclass will cover a range of topics including what major sponsors want to get out of sport, how sport can make the most of what it has to offer, how digital and broadcasters can adapt to consumer needs and what sports needs to deliver on the promise of digital.
This will be followed by roundtables which will cover the three-panel discussions – giving delegates the opportunity to discuss the prior topics in greater detail.
Sportconnect chairman Michael Cunnah said: “We have lined up a very impressive panel for the Digital Strategy Masterclass and it’s exciting to be just a week away. Each of the panellists has a wealth of experience in sport and business and I’m sure it will be a great chance to benefit from a variety of speakers.”
Invitation policy: The Digital Strategy Masterclass is an exclusive invite only event to Heads of digital media, technology, marketing, media and other similar positions from rights holders, brands and broadcasters.
To register your interest please contact Elyse Gallacher at elyse.gallacher@isportconnect.com
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FISU (The International University Sports Federation) has signed a 3-year partnership deal with the Chinese Taishan Sports Industry Group.
The deal involves sponsoring for a number of sports on the programme of the 2016 and 2018 World University Championships, stuff the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei City and several testing platforms for the physical education department of Universities.
Read more HERE.
UK Athletics has confirmed that former British Olympian Donna Fraser will become the new vice-president of UK Athletics.
Fraser will officially take over the role at the UK Athletics AGM meeting on December 4th.
Read more HERE.
The National Hockey League (NHL) has signed a multi-year agreement with sports data provider Sportradar.
The deal sees Sportradar become the league’s exclusive third-party provider of real-time game data, beginning with the 2015-16 NHL Season.
Read more HERE.
By Christian Radnedge
World Rugby ceo Brett Gosper says he expects the commercial revenue from the upcoming Rugby World Cup to exceed £250million.
Speaking to reporters at Twickenham four days ahead of the opening ceremony, stomach Gosper explained how TV deals would make up the bulk of the commercial assets of this year’s showpiece in England.
The broadcast contracts for this year’s World Cup have shown a huge increase from the last tournament in New Zealand in 2011, price according to Gosper (pictured).
“In terms of commercial they’ve grown probably about 60 per cent since last World Cup in 2011,” he said. “We’re targeting around £240 million of total commercial revenues of which television would be around 65 per cent of that.
“That split tends to remain the same when the numbers have gone higher and we’re expecting a surplus to be invested back into world rugby of in excess of around £150 million by the end of the tournament.
“So a very healthy commercial programme.”
Those high numbers sit alongside the record breaking figures of ticket sales confirmed on Tuesday, with around 95 per cent of the tickets sold for the entire tournament.
England 2015 managing director Stephen Brown spoke excitedly about the sales which means that the tournament will live up to the expectations of World Rugby as being “the biggest one ever”.
“We’re already the biggest tournament ever in terms of tickets sold,” Brown said. “In France 2.25 million were sold in 2007. It shows the fantastic scale and fantastic interest and we will have a brilliant attendance.
“There are still tickets available, in fact 40,000 are still available. Another great success has been our ticket reselling platform. We’ve had 55,000 sold in a safe and secure way, which is a great success and first for this tournament.”
Meanwhile, World Rugby president Bernard Lapasset dismissed the notion that the next edition in 2019 could be moved because of concerns over the scrapping of Tokyo’s planned stadium.
The high-cost venue was to be the centrepiece of the first ever Rugby World Cup in Asia in four years’ time and would also play a part in the Olympics in 2020.
But plans for the stadium were scrapped earlier this year due to the rising costs (believed to be around $2bn). Lapasset, however, insisted the tournament would go ahead as planned.
“We have no Plan B for 2019,” he said. “We are very confident of working with Japan. It is four years to go now, and time to complete the process.”
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