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FanCode bags media rights to Caribbean Premier League 2023

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India’s sports-focused live-streaming platform, FanCode has acquired the digital rights to the 11th season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

The contest will start on August 17 and last until September 25. The Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL), which takes place from September 1 to September 11, will also be broadcast live on the platform.

Indian batter Ambati Rayudu will also be playing in the CPL for St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, while Shreyanka Patil will compete for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the WCPL. Cricket enthusiasts can follow all the action on FanCode’s mobile apps (Android, iOS), TV apps (available on Android TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Jio STB, Samsung TV, Airtel XStream, OTT Play, WatchO, and www.fancode.com), and website (available on both Android and iOS).

The first season of the CPL, one of the oldest T20 cricket leagues in the world, was played in 2013. The annual league has some of the greatest stars in the sport, and this year won’t be any different. Some of the players participating are Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Faf du Plessis, Alex Hales, Andre Russell, and Sunil Narine.

A total of 34 games will be played in the CPL 2023 among six teams. The teams are St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Trinbago Knight Riders, Barbados Royals, Saint Lucia Kings, and Jamaica Tallawahs. A few games will start around 7:30 PM IST to accommodate Indian viewers. This year’s competition will be held in Saint Lucia, St. Kitts, Barbados, Trinidad, and Guyana, among other locations. Additionally, the WCPL is back and will last longer with more players.

Pete Russell, CEO, CPL, said, “We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with FanCode in India for the fourth consecutive year. Through this partnership, we continue to reach the large cricket loving audiences in India and this year we look forward to welcoming Indian players Ambati Rayudu and Shreyanka Patil to the fold. Every year CPL is breaking new records of viewership and this year we hope to continue the trend.”

Yannick Colaco, Co-Founder, FanCode, said, “Our partnership with CPL has grown from strength to strength and we are delighted to be bringing all the cricket action from the Carribean once again to fans in India. This year’s CPL promises to be bigger and better, with some of the top stars from both women’s and men’s games featuring.”

The CPL is being streamed on FanCode for the fourth year in a row. CPL is one of the most well-liked leagues around the globe and is quite well-liked in India. A record-breaking 721.8 million people watched the whole CPL 2022 season, setting a new high for the competition. The competition attracted more than half a billion viewers for the third year in a row, making it the second most-viewed T20 League in the globe.

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Sportfive nets third-party rights to Brazil, Argentina’s home W/Cup qualifiers

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A key piece of the puzzle in the South American media-rights market has been solved ahead of the Conmebol Fifa World Cup qualifiers that get underway this week, with the Sportfive agency landing rights for matches involving Brazil and Argentina.

Sportfive has secured exclusive third-party media rights (territories outside of the two countries playing) to all home 2026 World Cup qualifiers of the two South American giants, having reached an agreement with two agencies: Brax for Brazil’s rights and Torneos for Argentina’s.

Brazil’s first home game in the World Cup qualifiers is against Bolivia on September 8, while world champions Argentina kick off their campaign tomorrow (Thursday) at home to Ecuador.

In addition, Sportfive will sell third-party media rights for all home friendlies played by Brazil outside of the Americas. This was a long-term contract previously held by the UK-based Pitch International agency that expired after the 2022 World Cup.

It is a significant contract win for Sportfive and comes less than a year after Pedro Cubillos returned to the agency tasked with overseeing media rights acquisitions and sales across Latin America.

Cubillos was with Lagardère Sports – renamed Sportfive in 2020 following the takeover by H.I.G. Capital – for close to a decade. In 2019 he set up Tribe Sports Marketing agency with former colleague Marco Gonzalez.

Thomas Klingebiel, president of media at Sportfive, said: “We are thrilled to have secured these exclusive media rights for the South American World Cup Qualifiers. This agreement reinforces Sportfive’s commitment to delivering top-tier sports content to a global audience.”

South American football governing body Conmebol does not sell collective rights to World Cup qualifiers in the region. Rather, the football federations sell domestic and international rights to their respective home qualifiers and friendlies on an individual basis.

It means last-minute deals have often been required to ensure widespread exposure of the Conmebol World Cup qualifiers.

Just this week, SportBusiness reported clarity over Bolivia’s matches, after the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) was granted domestic rights to its home World Cup qualifiers after a court ruled against a claim from Mediapro and Sports TV Rights, which bid for the rights in a tender earlier this year.

The FBF was granted a ‘constitutional protection’ by the Departmental Court of La Paz that will enable the federation to exploit the rights on its own FBF Play streaming platform, rather than selling the rights to a third party such as Sports TV Rights or Mediapro.

Days earlier, and before the FBF had the legal right to sell Bolivia’s matches, Brazilian broadcaster Globo secured exclusive rights to the home matches of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

This secured the broadcaster’s near-universal coverage of the qualifiers in Brazil, as it had already retained domestic rights to the Brazilian national team’s home World Cup qualifying matches and friendlies until 2026.

Mediapro holds international rights to all of Peru’s home qualifiers and friendlies over the quadrennial period between World Cups. It also holds global media and marketing rights to the international matches of Chile in conjunction with the 1190 Sports agency over the 2023-26 period.

Aside from the individual sales, a quartet of South American football associations banded together in May to sell media rights to their home 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifiers on a collective basis, in what experts regarded as a step in the right direction for the region’s international football rights market.

The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF), Paraguayan Football Association (APF), Ecuadorian Football Federation (EFE) and Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) issued a joint Request for Proposal (RFP) on May 18, initially giving interested parties until June 8 to submit bids. No deals have been confirmed following the tender, however, Mediapro is understood to be the favourite to acquire the rights.

Six South American nations will qualify automatically for the 2026 World Cup in USA-Mexico-Canada (up from five at Qatar 2022) and with one other entering an inter-confederation playoff, only three nations will be automatically ruled out of qualification.

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BeIN Sports records 93.5 million total views for FIFA Women’s World Cup

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The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 garnered a record-breaking cumulative viewership of 93.5 million across the region, beIN Sports revealed.

The Qatar-based network provided exclusive real-time coverage for all 64 matches of the tournament in both the Arabic and English languages.

“When we launched our beINSPIRED initiative on the eve of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France in 2019, the aim was to help grow under-represented sports and one of our focuses was women’s football,” said Mohammad Al Subaie, CEO of beIN – MENA.

“This year’s Women’s World Cup expanded from 24 teams to 32 teams, yet what we have witnessed this past month shows that not only is interest growing in the region, but the way fans follow the game is evolving too. With a cumulative viewership of over 93m tuning into our linear coverage from across the region, the growth of women’s football is undeniable, and we are very proud to be helping drive that.”

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Major events like the semi-finals and final, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies, were televised on beIN Sports’ free-to-air channel as part of the network’s push for the visibility of women’s sports.

The tournament was held in Australia and New Zealand where almost two million spectators were attended the matches in person– a notable increase of over 600,000 compared to the previous record.

Spain faced off against England at the final in Sydney to lift its first World Cup title following an intense 1-0 game.

Deemed as a record-breaking event, women’s national teams from The Philippines, the Republic of Ireland, Portugal, and Morocco played on the global football stage for the first time.

Morocco’s Nouhaila Benzina also made history by becoming the first player to wear a hijab at a World Cup.

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PANASA Cup: Ghanaian Philanthropist Seeks More Corporate Backing, Media Support For African Scrabble

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A very passionate and dependable stakeholder of scrabble in Ghana and Africa, Samuel Mbrayeh Quartey, has described the PANASA President’s Cup as a groundbreaking event as far as the sport is concerned in Africa and the world.

Quartey, who is nicknamed SM Quartey, while speaking at the ongoing PANASA Cup in Lagos, Nigeria noted the game of scrabble in Africa as it is now not just about getting corporate bodies to throw their weight behind the game, but corporate bodies that are connected and can relate with the sport is what is needed for it to be lifted all round.

“I’m happy to be in Lagos to witness this tournament which I will call groundbreaking. The kind of organization we are seeing here is taking the game of Scrabble to another level. Before the tournament and during the tournament, I have seen a kind of friendship and brotherliness among all the contestants. It’s really like coming together of one family and such environment is beautiful,” Quartey told Maxwell Kumoye’s Zeal Media Cast Blog.

Samuel Mbrayeh Quartey, a renowned architect and philanthropist is excited with the standard of organization of both the President’s Cup and the African Youth Scrabble Championship which Ghana is fully represented in.

“The organization, the set-up, the ambience, fresh customized boards for everybody, the officiating, the quality, everything associated with it, it’s the height of scrabble, it’s a spectacle and I’m happy to be here watching it.” he stated.

SM Quartey further stressed that Ghana and other African countries should build on the success story of the Pan African Scrabble Association (PANASA) President’s Cup. “Am happy to be here in Lagos with our director from the Ministry of Sports in Ghana, we have been taking lessons here, and we to go back home and replicate what we have seen here.”

On the issue of corporate backing and support, the Post Graduate Diploma holder in Architecture, from the prestigious Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana,

On the issue of corporate sponsorship, the graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana said: “Scrabble as a game is best supported by people who have love for the game, not just corporate bodies who have no connection with the game, so some of our old enthusiasts who are concentrating on their corporate businesses, it’s about time we knock on their doors and say come and show some love and support to our common joy, which is scrabble.”

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