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In a huge coup for Amazon Prime Video, the streamer has scored rights to the Champions League in the UK for the first time, shared with BT. From the 2024/25 season, Amazon will show the big games on a Tuesday night through to the semi finals, amounting to around 20 games in total. BT, which has held the rights since…

Chelsea’s 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the final of the prestigious UEFA Champions League drew an average of 2.10 million viewers on CBS, according to Nielsen national ratings released Thursday. That makes it the most watched UCL final in the U.S. in the past six years, and the second-best showing in 10…

EXCLUSIVE: With the Champions League staging a condensed tournament with March Madness-like potential, one of the soccer league’s key media partners is tapping a big basketball name to promote tournament coverage. DAZN, which has exclusive rights to the league in Canada, decided to embrace the unique trifecta of…

UEFA has confirmed that Europan club soccer tournaments, the Champions League and Europa League, will return in August after being postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Champions League will be back as a straight knock-out tournament, with single fixture quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final being played in…

Comcast’s Sky Deutschland has lost the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Germany for the first time in 20 years after being outbid by streaming service DAZN. Sky confirmed on Thursday morning that it had missed out on access to the European soccer competition, meaning it will no longer show matches once…

Amazon has continued its push into soccer by scoring rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Germany. Amazon will broadcast matches from the elite European competition on Tuesday nights from the 2021/22 soccer season. Sky Deutschland and sports streamer DAZN currently show the Champions League in…

BT Sport has fought off competition from Comcast’s Sky to keep hold of exclusive UK television rights to the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League until 2024. BT Sport has been the home of the elite soccer competitions since 2015 and has retained the rights in a deal worth £1.2BN ($1.5BN), which works out at…

While CBS posted mixed third-quarter results Tuesday, the company’s acting CEO, Joe Ianniello, delivered a sports surprise during a conference call with Wall Street analysts. CBS has won the rights to air UEFA Champions League soccer beginning in 2021, beating out several other suitors, Ianniello said. The package…

British pay-TV operator and Sky rival BT is keen to keep hold of the exclusive rights to show the Champions League soccer tournament in the UK but has no plans to expand its content offering outside of sport. This comes as the telecoms company, which operates the BT Sport channel, said that it has fielded an…