SportBusiness Media staff

The Italian basketball league, Lega Basket, has agreed rights deals with state broadcaster Rai and the MP & Silva agency.

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a deal to become the new official broadcast partner of the British Basketball League for its 2013-14 season.

Internet company Yahoo has agreed a deal to become the official digital partner of Asian mixed martial arts series the One Fighting Championship.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has said it would be willing to pay more for exclusive pay-television rights to Serie A football for the three-year period spanning the 2015-16 to 2017-18 seasons, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.

African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has agreed a three-year deal with the Ghana Football Association to acquire the exclusive broadcast rights to the Ghana Premier League, the country’s top football division, and FA Cup knockout competition.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports has signed a three-year rights deal with the England Netball organisation for the Superleague club competition and all home international games.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has announced an initial six-month partnership with Facebook that will allow data and chatter from the social media website to appear alongside live NFL and college American football broadcasts, as well as soccer games.

Specialist international equestrian sports and lifestyle television channel Horse & Country TV has announced it will launch in Sweden in October.

The NFL American football league has agreed a multi-year deal with digital sports video news agency SendtoNews for video distribution rights in Canada.

Cricket Australia has underwritten commercial broadcaster Nine’s production costs by A$800,000 (€560,000/$747,000) in order to ensure domestic one-day competition the Ryobi Cup is afforded free-to-air television coverage, according to The Age.