SportBusiness Media staff

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has signed a six-year extension to its rights deal with British Athletics.

Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport Asia has acquired the media rights to German Bundesliga football in Indonesia and the Philippines for the next two seasons.

European football’s governing body Uefa has announced €904.6m ($1.2b) was distributed to teams in the 2012/13 Champions League, with the triumphant Bayern Munich beaten in the revenue stakes by Juventus thanks to the size of Italy’s broadcast rights contract for the competition.

The English Premier League has appointed corporate investigations and brand protection firm ID Inquiries to carry out investigations into unauthorised and illegal use of foreign satellite systems in the UK.

French media regulator the CSA is undertaking a consultation on rules covering sports highlights rights distribution in the country, according to the Digital TV Europe website.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired the domestic rights, along with those across the Pacific Islands, to multi-sport event the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The Tunisian Football Federation has launched a sales process for domestic multimedia rights to all matches organised by the national governing body.

German regional public-service broadcaster WDR has called for greater transparency in national public-service broadcaster ARD’s acquisition of sports rights, according to the EPD news agency.

Fox Sports 1, the new national pay-television sports channel that will be launched by US network Fox on August 17, will look for advertising agency partners from later this year, according to Fox Sports Media Group head of marketing Robert Gottlieb.

ESPN has confirmed that its US Spanish-language broadcaster, ESPN Deportes, and its ESPN 2 channel will share live coverage of matches from the 2013-14 Liga MX, the top division of football in Mexico.