CBS Sports and UC3 have announced a deal for exclusive English-language U.S. TV rights to UEFA Women’s Champions League soccer matches through the 2029-2030 season.

Beginning with the 2025-2026 season, Paramount+ will stream CBS Sports coverage of all 75 matches, with select matches also airing on CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Golazo Network.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

UC3 is a joint venture between UEFA and the European Club Association that manages and sells media rights.

CBS Sports already has rights to the men’s club competitions.

As part of the deal, CBS Sports will provide exclusive coverage of the newly expanded UEFA Women’s Champions League format beginning next season with 18 clubs participating in the initial league phase; a newly added knockout phase playoff round; and concluding with the UEFA Women’s Champions League final.

CBS Sports said it will announce full coverage details ahead of the start of the 2025-26 UEFA Women’s Champions League season in July.

“The UEFA Women’s Champions League with its world class players and elite clubs adds tremendous value to CBS Sports’ premium soccer portfolio,” said Dan Weinberg, executive vice president of programming, CBS Sports. “CBS Sports is proud to be the home of the UEFA Women’s Champions League and all men’s UEFA club competitions through the end of the decade, further solidifying Paramount+ as the premier and must-have destination for soccer fans.”

“We are delighted to expand our partnership with CBS Sports, bringing the UEFA Women’s Champions League alongside the UEFA men’s club competitions,” said Guy-Laurent Epstein, managing director at UC3. “As the competition embarks on an exciting new era, we look forward to CBS Sports delivering its dynamic and insightful coverage to American audiences, showcasing the highest level of women’s club football in its new format over the next five seasons.”

In addition to CBS Sports’ coverage of live matches, CBS Sports Golazo Network will provide extensive UEFA Women’s Champions League coverage on its dedicated women’s soccer show alongside its other studio programming. CBS Sports will provide additional coverage on CBSSports.com, the Golazo Starting XI newsletter, the “Attacking Third” podcast and across its @AttackingThird social accounts.

CBS Sports’ extensive soccer portfolio features more than 2,000 live matches per year on Paramount+ and across its various platforms. Those rights include games from the NWSL, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League and UEFA Youth League;,Serie A and Serie A Femminile, the English Football League and Carabao Cup, the United Soccer League, Concacaf W Champions Cup, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the Scottish Professional Football League and more.

LONDON—Gravity Media has inked a new three-year deal producing Matchnight Services for UEFA across their major club competitions - the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League.

“We are delighted to continue our relationship with UEFA for a further three years,” said director of production and content for EMEA Frank Callaghan. “To be trusted with such a major contract is testament to our production and technical teams’ continued ability to deliver huge volumes of valuable content to a very high and consistent level”

The deal includes highlights programming, digital content, commentaries, and a live instant highlights show for all UEFA’s rights holding broadcasters. It marks the continuation of a partnership that began with the first season of UEFA Champions League football in 1992/93.

This new agreement brings with it a major increase in production services, on Thursday nights in particular where Gravity Media’s production center plays host to more than 120 editorial and technical staff, including 32 commentators delivering world feed commentary to broadcasters around the world.

To accommodate the increased demands on these matchnights, Gravity Media’s London Production Centre has been re-designed to include a new and extended multi-functional suite, which houses the VT operation and monitoring obligations on match nights, as well as additional commentary booths and galleries. 

Nick Symes, director of technology for Gravity Media, oversaw the project. “With the expansion of the Europa Conference League and the increased required for fast turnaround production facilities and workflows, our new operational areas needed to offer a flexible suite of tools to enable our production teams to deliver the complex set of requirements for delivery of a bolstered UEFA match night operation,” Symes said. “The new facility occupies a newly refitted room and is equipped with flexible monitoring positions, dedicated talkback all integrated into high specification technical furniture.”

SAINT-GRÉGOIRE, France—Live video contribution technology provider Aviwest has announced that it was used by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to support selected off-venue events, including official team training and press conferences from UEFA EURO 2020. 

UEFA successfully used the Aviwest’s bonded cellular ecosystem during the events, which were held during a global health crisis that made the event extremely challenging to produce. prepare for and deliver.

UEFA leveraged Aviwest's PRO380 bonded cellular field units, StreamHub transceiver, and Manager unified management platform. Aviwest also provided UEFA with SIM cards and data, and accompanied their broadcast team throughout all stages of the project, including expeditions across Europe, team training, installations, and follow-ups with a 24/7 support service.

The Aviwest PRO3 Series enabled UEFA's host broadcast team to securely provide live high-quality feeds over aggregated cellular networks. They were also able to use IP networks to send first-class images from the field.

In the master control room, the Aviwest Manager enabled monitoring and control of the entire Aviwest system including fields units, StreamHub transceivers, and third-party equipment via a single and intuitive web interface, the company reported. 

Through an advanced set of functionalities, the Aviwest Manager provided UEFA's production team with vital information about device performance, resource availability, and potential data consumption warnings. The Manager also allowed easy video routing through simple drag-and-drop and the booking of StreamHub outputs (SDI or IP) for dedicated transmitters.

"The Aviwest Manager offers greater flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity than other systems on the market, so it was the perfect match for UEFA's remote live video production requirements," said Alexandre Augereau, area sales manager at Aviwest. "We are proud of the support that our team of experts provided to UEFA. During the event they worked together closely to streamline UEFA's workflows and help them to reach their goals."

More information on AVIWEST and its products is available at www.aviwest.com.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—TVU Networks was a part of the team put together by UEFA to help with the first remotely produced 2020 UEFA Champions League and Europa League Final 8 Draw, as well as the 2020/2021 UEFA Champions’ League Group Stage Draw and awards ceremony.

With COVID-19 travel restrictions instituted across Europe, TVU Networks provided turnkey remote production systems to  participating clubs, allowing them to broadcast from their home locations. TVU also provided on-site technical and training support for the clubs and at UEFA headquarters in Geneva.

Each remote setup needed to include return audio feeds, mix minus feedback elimination for team member interviews, synchronized intercom communication for camera operators and transmission with less than one-second delay, per TVU.

The TVU remote package included TVU One mobile transmitters and the TVU Anywhere mobile broadcasting app, which were used to send live feeds from the remote locations to Radio Télévision Suisse in Geneva for broadcast onto the UEFA website and other major sport channels.

Additional equipment provided by TVU included the TVU Partyline, which enabled the remote clubs to receive return video of the live program output in real time.

VideolinkAG, TVU’s Switzerland-based partner, also provided technical support in Geneva.

ESPN this week says it was the first sports broadcaster to air a live sporting event in 4K in Latin America, with the airing of Liverpool FC's 5-2 home victory over AS Roma, the first leg of a home-and-away UEFA Champions League semifinal, in 4K. The live telecast was available on DIRECTV Channel 4000 in Argentina and Peru.

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ESPN’s coverage in 4K continues Saturday, May 26 with the UEFA Champions League Final live from Kiev, Ukraine.

Guillermo Tabanera, senior vice president and general manager of ESPN Media Networks in Latin America said, “We are proud to be the first to showcase a sporting event in 4K in the region. Our mission is to offer the best viewing experience for fans with the highest quality content on any available screen. Our inaugural 4K broadcast achieves that.”

ATLANTA—Turner is making a play for a new standalone sports streaming service that will debut in 2018. As part of the streaming service, Turner has also finalized a three-year multi-platform rights agreement for exclusive presentation of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League soccer matches for the 2018-2019 season.

The announcement comes on the heels of Disney’s announcement last week that it will offer an ESPN streaming service, also likely to premiere sometime in 2018.

As part of Turner’s agreement with UEFA, the network will serve as the exclusive media partner in the U.S. for English-language coverage of both UEFA leagues; Turner will present more than 340 UEFA matches per season across its television and digital platforms; matches will be offered direct to consumers through the new OTT sports platform; Turner-owned Bleacher Report will serve as a portal to the OTT service and its live UEFA matches; and live matches will also be aired on TNT, TBS and/or truTV. Bleacher Report will also provide year-long UEFA clips and original content through its products and social media accounts.

Turner’s UEFA Champions League coverage will include four live telecasts a week through the group stage (September through early December) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1 p.m. ET and 3 p.m. ET, followed by two televised matches per week during the knockout stage (beginning in February) on Tuesday and Wednesdays at 3 p.m. ET. All other matches will be available live through Turner’s OTT platform. All semifinal matches and the Champions League final will be televised nationally on TBS or TNT.

The UEFA Europa League matches will be made available through the OTT platform, with the Europa League final airing on either TBS or TNT. In addition, Turner will televise the UEFA Super Cup on TBS or TNT, which pits the Champions League winner against the Europa League winner.

No official date has been given for the launch of Turner’s sports streaming platform.

LONDON—As it prepares for its coverage of two of the biggest matches of the year, BT Sport some new viewing experiences for soccer fans.

Once again, BT Sport will offer the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League finals free-to-air online via the BTSport.com video player—also available on the BT Sport app—and on YouTube and the BT Sport Showcase HD TV channel. In addition, BT Sport is debuting 4K and VR coverage of the games.

The UEFA Champions League final, which features Real Madrid playing Juventus, will be available in 360-degree virtual reality through streams on YouTube and the new BT Sport Virtual Reality app. Fans will have access to a 360-degree produced program with commentary and graphics, or their own camera viewpoint.

BT will also show the game in 4K UHD on YouTube and in 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos sound on BT TV.

The UEFA Europa League final between Manchester United and Ajax will take place on May 24 in Stockholm. The UEFA Champions League final will be played on June 3 in Wales.