Football: The CAA Eleven agency agreed two deals in the UK for qualifiers for Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup. Commercial broadcaster ITV acquired live rights to all England qualifiers plus 20 qualifiers not featuring the UK nations or the Republic of Ireland in a four-year deal, from 2014-15 to 2017-18. UK newspaper The Guardian reported the deal to be worth £100m (€119m/$156m). Pay-television broadcaster BSkyB acquired live rights to all qualifiers of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, highlights rights for England qualifiers over the same four-year period, plus rights for hundreds of qualifiers featuring other teams.
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