Amazon has announced a summer schedule of tennis broadcasting as sports continues to mount a comeback in a post-lockdown world. Coverage will start with the 31st Palermo Ladies Open WTA event from August 3, followed by the WTA and ATP tour Western & Southern Open in New York from August 22. The summer will be […]
Wimbledon organiser, the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), will hold an emergency meeting next week to discuss postponing the championship. The organiser had maintained that the tournament – scheduled to take place on June 29-July 12 in the titular south west London locale – would go ahead as planned, but with prime minister Boris […]
The French Open, originally set to take place at the end of May, has been rescheduled to September 20-October 4 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. All professional tennis globally has been suspended until at least April 20. The French Tennis Federation (FFT) issued a statement that said: “Though nobody is able to predict […]
Amazon has continued its reach into the European sports broadcast market with the acquisition of rights to Roland-Garros. Amazon is currently the exclusive rightsholder for the US Open, ATP and WTA tours in the UK. The deal will see Amazon have live broadcast rights to the competition from 2021-2023, though only for the new night […]
Amazon has agreed a five-year deal to broadcast live and on-demand coverage of the US Open Tennis Championships to Prime Video Members in the UK and Ireland. The deal, agreed with the USTA – the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the US – is due to begin with the 2018 US Open […]
Amazon has agreed two deals with ATP and ATP Media to broadcast live ATP tennis in the UK and Ireland and to add Tennis TV to its Amazon Channels line-up in the US . In the UK and Republic of Ireland, Amazon Prime Video has agreed live and on-demand distribution rights to the ATP World […]
ATP and ATP Media have confirmed that Amazon will be an official worldwide streaming partner for the ATP World Tour. Starting this year, Amazon will have global over-the-top rights to broadcast the Next Gen ATP Finals through Amazon Prime Video – except in China. In the US it will also have the full exclusive rights […]
Amazon has beaten Sky to secure the UK rights to men’s ATP World Tour tennis, according to press reports. As reported by The Guardian, the global streaming giant is believed to have paid up to £10 million (€11 million) a year to secure the rights to the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Masters 500 […]
Technology provider Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE 4K HEVC encoder was used to transmit live 4K streaming of the 2015 French Open tennis championship, the company has revealed. France Télévisions in partnership with FRANSAT, the French DTH platform operated by Eutelsat, used the ViBE 4K to broadcast live UHD pictures in H.265 format on the Francetvsport […]
French public broadcaster France Televisions has partnered with interactive and social television specialists Monterosa to launch a new app to coincide with the start of this year’s French Open tennis tournament. The A Vous de Jouer (Your Turn To Play) app will roll out this weekend and is based on Monterosa’s LViS Sports Predictor app […]
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