SportBusiness Media staff

Pay-television broadcaster Viasat, operated by pan-Nordic media company Modern Times Group, has acquired online rights in Sweden for the country’s top-tier Allsvenskan football league in a sub-licensing deal with C More Entertainment, the premium pay-television arm of media company TV4 Group, according to the Expressen news website.

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel has become the latest broadcaster to end its 3D offering due to a lack of viewing interest in the format.

Pakistani cricket’s governing body, the Pakistan Cricket Board, has rejected criticism concerning the transparency of its broadcast rights sales process, according to The Nation newspaper.

Turkish pay-television operator Digiturk has terminated its carriage agreements for its football channel Lig TV with German cable and IPTV providers Kabel Deutschland, Unitymedia Kabel BW, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.

Norwegian basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster TV2 and public-service broadcaster NRK have acquired rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired the domestic rights to the 2015 Cricket World Cup tournament, which is being co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.

The IMG College agency has agreed an 11-year multimedia rights partnership with Rutgers University Athletics, which will begin in the 2013-14 academic year.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has extended its rights deal for the Scottish League Cup football competition until 2016.

Gursharan Sethi has been appointed as senior vice-president of affiliate sales and marketing at the Eurosport Asia-Pacific division of pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport.