SportBusiness Media staff

Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has acquired rights for the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 cricket competition.

Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has agreed a deal with MP & Silva for the exclusive retail broadcast rights to French Ligue 1 football, along with other sports properties held by the agency.

French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a three-year deal to broadcast National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball.

French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a three-year deal, covering the 2013-14 to 2015-16 seasons, for the rights to the Championnat National, the third-tier of French club football.

The Arabian Gulf League football competition’s organising body has announced that two games per week during the 2013-14 season will be shown on a pay-per-view basis, according to the National newspaper.

Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners will pull out of the running to acquire IMG following its deal to purchase a majority stake in rival agency Learfield Communications, according to the New York Post newspaper.

Satellite pay-television broadcaster Cable Thai Holdings, which has the Thai rights to English Premier League football, is suing technology company Apple for permitting the sale of an application that allows consumers to view games on mobile devices.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired broadcast rights to the 2013-14 season of the Uefa Women’s Champions League club football competition.

The IMG agency has contacted Maurizio Beretta, the president of Lega Serie A, to express an interest in becoming the Italian top-tier football division’s new media-rights sales adviser, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

The International Tennis Federation, the sport’s world governing body, has relaunched online streaming service DavisCup.tv, which provides live coverage of the Davis Cup men’s national team tournament.