SportBusiness Media staff

The Constantin Medien media company, which owns the Team Marketing agency and German sports broadcaster Sport1, has extended the management structure of its sports arm.

Broadband provider Telecom New Zealand has agreed a deal with Coliseum Sports Media, the rights-holder for the English Premier League in the country, to offer customers access to coverage of England’s top football division.

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has confirmed it will show live coverage of all 25 matches of the 2013 Uefa Women’s Euro national team football championship later this month.

UK digital sports media company Perform Group has confirmed that it has agreed a deal to acquire sports data company Opta for about £40m (€46.5m/$60.5m).

Colombian commercial broadcaster Caracol has agreed a one-year deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship to broadcast programming from the mixed martial arts promoter.

Telecommunications company Columbus International, which operates Caribbean cable-television broadcaster Flow, has announced a new programming partnership that will lead to the introduction in the region of Ten Cricket, the pay-television channel owned by Indian media group Zee Entertainment.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has acquired the rights to the Samsung Cup, Austrian football’s domestic club knockout competition, in a three-year deal running from the 2013-14 to 2015-16 season.

Cuba has broadcast its first full Major League Baseball game on free-to-air television since 1961, according to the Associated Press news agency.

UK telecommunications company BT has agreed a two-year deal with the Football Conference organisation to broadcast coverage of the Conference Premier, the fifth tier of English football, on its soon-to-be-launched BT Sport television service.

The MP & Silva agency has acquired the rights to English football’s top-tier Premier League for the next three seasons in the Philippines and Taiwan.