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LONDON: TNT Sports will be the new name for the premium sports brand to be launched later this year by the joint venture (JV) between BT Group and Warner Bros. Discovery.

The new name heralds an important step in the previously announced plans to unite BT Sport and Eurosport under a single brand in the future. 

TNT Sports will replace the BT Sport name in July, shortly before the start of 2023/2024 football season. 

Mar 27, 2018 14:03
NEW YORK: Facebook has announced that Peter Hutton, who has just left his position as chief executive of Eurosport, is joining the social network behemoth as director of global live sports partnerships and programming.  The industry veteran will start in late May and report to Dan Reed, head of global sports partnerships.
Feb 02, 2018 17:02
LONDON: As home of the Olympics in Europe, Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport are on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before.   To match that ambition and provide a more complete picture of the popularity and importance of the Olympic Games, the company has developed a methodology to measure audience behavior across Europe.
Jan 20, 2018 17:01
LONDON: Facebook is reportedly poised to appoint Eurosport chief executive Peter Hutton to lead its sports ambitions. The appointment Hutton, an old India hand, follows the social network behemoth's global search for a head of live sport after being frustrated in a $600 million bid to secure digital rights to the Indian Premier League, The Guardian reports.
Nov 16, 2017 15:11
NEW YORK: E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly secured five-year UK TV rights to the US Open, the last tennis grand slam of the year.  While the deal terms were not disclosed, UK media reports that Amazon paid about $40 million (£50m) for the rights. The latest acquisition buttresses Amazon’s £50m, five-year deal for the UK rights to the ATP World Tour, for which it outbid Sky, UK's Guardian reports.