SportBusiness Media staff

The UK’s media regulator, Ofcom, has rejected an interim measure requested by UK telecommunications company BT to allow it to show pay-television broadcaster BSkyB’s Sky Sports channels on its new television service, according to The Telegraph newspaper.

The 2013 Tour of Britain will be broadcast in the UK on both free-to-air digital channel ITV4 and British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, organisers of the cycling race have confirmed.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has agreed carriage deals with Dutch cable-television providers UPC and Canal Digitaal Satelliet for its new Fox Sports Eredivisie and Fox Sports International pay-television channels.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a rights deal for North America’s Major League Soccer competition.

US cable television channel One World Sports, the broadcast rights holder for New York Cosmos football games, has entered into a distribution agreement with regional US sports cable broadcaster SportsNet New York.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has agreed a new deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) to broadcast live coverage of its showpiece competitions.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has struck a deal to show matches featuring four English Premier League football clubs on a delayed basis.

The Prisa media group has agreed to pay the Mediapro agency €88 million ($114.4 million) plus tax, curtailing the threat of a fresh dispute over coverage of the forthcoming 2013-14 Spanish football season.

The Zambia National Broadcast Corporation, the African country’s public-service broadcaster, has announced its sports coverage plans over the coming 12 months by confirming that deals are in place to show leading football and athletics.

UK newspaper The Sun is to launch a football news programme as part of a move into the online football market.