SportBusiness Media staff

German free-to-air television channel Sat.1 Gold is seeking to enhance its tennis rights portfolio following the success of Sabine Lisicki at the Wimbledon championships.

Pan-Nordic basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster SBS Discovery Media has acquired the exclusive rights in Denmark, Norway and Sweden to all European qualifying matches for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football competitions.

Fifa and Uefa, football’s global and European governing bodies, have lost an appeal against a European court ruling that the World Cup and European Championships national team events must be shown on free-to-air television in the UK and Belgium.

Brazilian pay-television channel SporTV has agreed a deal with the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) to broadcast the forthcoming IPC Athletics World Championships, according to the Meio e Mensagem news website.

Newspaper group News UK has acquired the video clip rights to England national team games and FA Cup matches under a four-year deal struck with the Football Association.

The English Football Association has agreed domestic media rights deals for the FA Cup with public-service broadcaster the BBC and pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, and for England national team matches with commercial broadcaster ITV.

The English Premier League has secured a judgment in the UK High Court requiring six internet service providers in the country to block access to illegal live streaming website First Row Sports.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, will launch three new television channels on July 23.

Tennis Australia vice-president Harold Mitchell has defended the governing body’s decision to sell the latest domestic media rights for the Australian Open to commercial broadcaster Seven without a tender.