Shorts: Qatar World Cup, Nba, The Ocean Race

IMG’s inflight and in ship sports channel Sport 24 has announced a deal with football’s global governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to broadcast the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022Ô. 

Sport 24 and its secondary channel Sport 24 Extra will show more than 125 hours of live coverage from the international tournament. In addition to the live broadcast of all 64 matches of the tournament, the channels will also air multiple repeat matches and highlight shows, on airlines and cruise ships across the world.

FIFA’s Director of Media Partnerships, Jean-Christophe Petit, said, “We are pleased to be able to extend our partnership with IMG, to ensure that fans travelling inflight or in ship have the fantastic opportunity to enjoy the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on a live basis thanks to the Sport 24 services.”

Sky Sports will remain the home of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the UK and Ireland for the 2022-23 season, after renewing its broadcast deal with the US professional basketball league.

The schedule on Sky Sports will include 135 regular seasons games, the All-Star Weekend, selected games from Round One and Round Two of the playoffs and the Conference Finals and NBA Finals.

This builds on Sky’s basketball offering, which also includes the British Basketball League (BBL).

Warner Bros. Discovery, the leading global media and entertainment company, and The Ocean Race, the global offshore sailing race, have agreed a long-term partnership.

The partnership will focus on live broadcasts, editorial content production and multi-platform distribution as well as third-party commercial agreements and will lead off from the start of next edition of The Ocean Race, starting in Alicante, Spain in January 2023.

Scott Young, Senior Vice President, Content and Production, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, said, “The story of The Ocean Race will be live, engaging, immersive, and entertaining. We see a great opportunity in our partnership around production to elevate its recognised world class live coverage alongside new formats that unearth the stories, people and relationships that are at the heart of this epic race.

“By striving for greater storytelling around the event, we can help audiences better understand the race and everything that goes into competing in the greatest round-the-world sailing challenge.”