In this week’s International TV Newswire Variety looks at international free-to-air sports rights, ITV finds its new “Love Island” host after off-camera drama, “Money Heist” tops non-English-langua…
looks at international free-to-air sports rights, ITV finds its new “Love Island” host after off-camera drama, “Money Heist” tops non-English-language binge ratings, Endemol Shine adapts “Trial by Fire” and Spanish TV’s boom might still be on the horizon.Amazon Prime Video has just swooped on Premier League and German Champions League rights. DAZN is hunting ever more around the more major margins of sports rights, taking the Premier League in Spain, and sharing the Champions League in Germany.
With no major soccer competition last season, what did audiences watch? One answer, the report suggests, is a tourney which became a major soccer competition: the FIFA Women’s World Cup. In France, the quarter-final crunch between France and the U.S. attracted the highest audience so far in 2019 for any programming type, with 10.7 million viewers and a 49.6% audience share on TF1.
Extraordinary but true, with Bayern Munich and German’s national team languishing, the biggest sports result in Germany was not for any soccer match last season but the World Men’s Handball Championship between Germany and Norway . When it comes to a big sports triumph fix, audiences these days just can’t get enough.U.K.
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