Channel 5 has agreed a deal to show a daily highlights programme from the Commonwealth Games this summer, with the BBC opting not to broadcast any coverage of the event in Glasgow.

TNT Sports secured live rights for the Games last year by outbidding the BBC , which declined the opportunity to take a highlights package after holding talks with TNT.

As a result, the sports channel group owned by the Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), which will broadcast more than 600 hours of live coverage from Glasgow, is understood to have agreed to sublicense highlights rights to Channel 5 . The Games will be available on all tiers on HBO Max.

Paramount Skydance, which is Channel 5’s parent company, has agreed a $110.9bn (£83bn) takeover of WBD.…