SportBusiness Media staff

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ has announced the acquisition of rights for the 2014 winter and 2016 summer Olympic Games.

Football fans in Great Britain are increasingly using mobile devices to access video content, sports news websites and betting services, according to data revealed by Goal, the football media brand owned by digital sports group Perform.

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired a rights package for the sport of sepaktakraw.

Randy Freer, chief operating officer and co-president of the Fox Sports division of US network Fox, has said that the broadcaster would be interested in bidding for Thursday night NFL American football rights.

The US Tennis Association has begun talks on alternative broadcast plans for the US Open tournament if CBS remains off the air in the New York area due to the network’s ongoing dispute with cable-television operator Time Warner Cable.

US regional television broadcaster WBBZ-TV has acquired rights to American football games from college sport’s Atlantic Coast Conference ahead of the 2013 season.

Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Ireland has acquired rights for highlights of the English Premier League, the top football division in England.

Digital sports media company Perform has agreed a three-year renewal of its mobile and internet clip production partnership with the Premier League, taking in the 2013-14 to 2015-16 seasons of the top division of English football.

New Italian pay-television channel Fox Sports has acquired rights for the Eredivisie, the top division of football in the Netherlands.

Private investment group Coliseum Sports Media is interested in acquiring domestic rights for the New Zealand national rugby union team, the All Blacks, according to the Matheson Sports Media news agency.