SportBusiness Media staff

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a rights deal for cycling’s UCI Road World Championships under which it will broadcast Sunday’s showpiece men’s road race.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast Rugby League World Cup 2013 matches in France.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired the exclusive media rights to all home games featuring German teams Vfl Wolfsburg and 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam in the 2013-14 Uefa Women’s Champions League club competition.

The IMG Media agency has signed a three year agreement to globally represent and distribute all media rights for the World Series of Fighting (WSOF) mixed martial arts organisation.

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) to strengthen broadcast coverage and awareness of Paralympic events and sports in Asia.

Social networking website Twitter has agreed a deal with American football league the NFL to make game clips and other content available through its Amplify platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a two-year deal with Turkish pay-television operator Digiturk to distribute its highlights package for the country’s top-tier Super League football division on a global basis.

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed a deal with YouTube that will lead to the launch of the Bundesliga’s first official channel on the video-sharing platform.

Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association is considering launching its own internet-based subscription channel and a pay-television channel as it prepares for its next domestic rights cycle, from 2014-15 onwards, according to the Belfast Telegraph.

Horse racing pay-television channel Racing UK has launched a pay per day service on digital-terrestrial platform Freeview.