SportBusiness Media staff

Thai pay-television broadcaster TrueVisions has retained rights for the Thai Premier League, the top division of football in Thailand, after agreeing to pay a near tenfold increase in the rights fee, according to the Bangkok Post.

Telecommunications company Silknet has acquired rights in Georgia for English Premier League football.

Jamie Aitchison, the sports editor of Channel 4, has defended the UK commercial broadcaster’s audience figures for horseracing coverage.

Production company Plazamedia has renewed a deal with ZDF to produce the German public-service broadcaster’s coverage of the Uefa Champions League club football competition.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has acquired rights from pay-television broadcaster ESPN for the American Athletic Conference college sports competition.

AVTV, the in-house pay-television channel operated by English Premier League football club Aston Villa, has agreed a carriage deal with three major airlines.

Online streaming website Spox.com, owned by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired the live German broadcast rights to one game from each day of the EuroBasket 2013 national team basketball competition in Slovenia.

African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2015-16 to 2018-19, for the Nigeria Professional Football League, the top division of football in the West African country.

The Total Sports Asia agency has agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency to become the exclusive distributor in the Asia-Pacific region of Barca TV, the official club television channel of Spanish Liga football champion Barcelona.

Dutch pay-television sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights for the Süper Lig, the top football division in Turkey.