Joel Marino

LONDON: Sky Sports has boosted its schedule of live soccer, adding three seasons of the Ping An Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL).

LONDON: Viasat World has inked a deal to air the second exclusive live broadcast in Poland of the ELEAGUE Championship Series – Counter-Strike Finals (CS: GO).

BRUSSELS: The recently concluded UEFA Euro 2016 soccer championship broke viewership records throughout Europe, becoming the most-watched TV program in tournament finalist countries France and Portugal, according to egta.

LONDON: CSI Sports has acquired the Sport 10 channel in Belgium, which reaches 1.3 million subscribers on the Proximus platform.

LONDON: Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee has been tapped to deliver a keynote address at the IBC2016 Conference in Amsterdam as part of the IBC Big Screen Experience.

LONDON: all3media International has made two new appointments to its London-based sales team, adding executives for the EMEA region.

KIEV: The VOD and OTT service Megogo has launched a new business line that will focus on the live broadcast of large-scale popular sporting and cultural events.

LONDON: BBC has unveiled plans for its move into the virtual reality space, posting several in-the-works projects to the experimental-ideas platform BBC Taster.

LONDON: DRG has signed a first-look and development deal with comedy and entertainment production company 2LE Media.

LONDON: As part of its ongoing strategy to make the Olympics available across more screens in Europe, Discovery Communications has inked deals with Ireland’s RTÉ and pubcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) for the 2018 and 2020 games.