SportBusiness Media staff

The English Football League has announced a new video content partnership with YouTube.

Macedonian free-to-air broadcaster Alfa TV has agreed a two-year deal with EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, for the broadcast rights to the Champions League and Women’s Champions League club competitions.

Sales at Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of media conglomerate Lagardère, dropped by 4.6-per-cent from €213m ($285m) to €204m year-on-year in the six months until the end of June 2013.

Digital sports media company Perform Group has reported a 37-per-cent year-on-year increase in revenue, from £67.4m (€78.9m/$105.7m) to £92.4m, for the six months until the end of June 2013.

Major League Soccer club Chivas USA has announced new local television rights deals with broadcasters KDOC and MundoFOX22 KWHY-TV through to the end of the 2013 season.

The McLaren Group, which includes the McLaren Mercedes Formula One motor-racing team, has announced a new commercial partnership with video-sharing website YouTube.

Newly-formed media company Click Pacific has been awarded the exclusive media rights across the Pacific Islands for Fifa football competitions from December 2013 to July 2014, according to the Fiji Village website.

Seven clubs from Lega Serie A in Italy have raised questions over the future role of the Infront Sports & Media agency as adviser to the league on media-rights sales.