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NBA basketball franchise the Sacramento Kings have announced a broadcast partnership for the 2013-14 season with News10, the local affiliate of the ABC network.

Eurosport will show a programming block on pay-television in the US for the first time under an arrangement with media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, a stakeholder in the pan-regional sports broadcaster.

Ghanaian free-to-air television channel Viasat 1, owned by multi-territory television operator Modern Times Group, has acquired rights to the 2013-14 English Premier League football season, according to the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox “will not countenance” a Qatari 2022 Fifa World Cup staged between October and December, according to the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has become the exclusive sales agent for horse racing pay-television channel Racing UK’s commercial television service.

Irish amateur sports organisation the Gaelic Athletic Association is to target the North American market in its next cycle of media rights sales, according to sports news website TheScore.ie.

Private equity firms KKR & Co and New Mountain Capital have teamed up to bid for the IMG agency, according to Reuters.

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby, which operates the domestic top-tier Top 14 rugby union club competition, has launched a consultation period for the renegotiation of its media rights, with meetings set for September 24-25 to discuss different options.

Italy’s top-tier Serie A football clubs will meet on Friday to discuss the issue of how to maintain the value of the league’s domestic broadcast rights and increase revenue from overseas rights.