SportBusiness Media staff

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Brasil has announced that it will provide live coverage of all 64 games of the 2014 Fifa World Cup and will launch a second channel next year.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a three-year carriage deal with pay-television operator Virgin Media ahead of the start of its coverage of English Premier League football this weekend.

The Constantin Medien media company, which owns the Team Marketing agency and German sports broadcaster Sport1, has reported a 45-per-cent drop in sales at its sports events and marketing division for the first six months of 2013.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has struck a deal to show matches featuring English Premier League club Manchester United on a delayed basis.

Cypriot pay-television broadcaster LTV has announced that it has retained the domestic rights to the English Premier League, the top football division in England.

NBC Sports Network, the cable-television sports channel of US network NBC, will use its coverage of English Premier League football to promote its NBCSN rebranding.

The Ladies European Tour golf organisation has relaunched its official YouTube channel to provide live coverage of the 2013 Solheim Cup in countries where the tournament will not be available on television.

The IEC in Sports agency has announced rights deals for the 2013 World Fly Fishing Championship with pay-television broadcasters in Croatia, Israel and Chile.

Showtime will not be able to provide coverage of mixed martial arts again until 2014, according to the US pay-per-view broadcaster’s executive vice-president Stephen Espinoza.

Fox Sports 1, the new US pay-television channel from the Fox Sports division of the Fox network, remains in talks to seal carriage deals with pay-television operators Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Dish ahead of its launch on August 17, according to the Bloomberg news agency.