SportBusiness Media staff

The number of adult sports fans in the US who say they follow football (soccer) fell in 2013, according to the Global Sports Media Consumption Report.

The YouTube video-sharing website has announced it will provide “four to six” hours per day of live content from the 2013 Wimbledon tennis championships through its Live@Wimbledon channel.

The English Premier League has stepped up its campaign against foreign-based websites offering live streaming of games to UK-based users by seeking a court order forcing internet service providers to block access to a Sweden-based website.

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1, owned by Constantin Media, has acquired the rights to the content currently carried on the ESPN America channel for the territories of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV said it would appeal after being fined €3.7m ($4.9m) by the Autoridade da Concorrência, the country’s competition regulator.

US pay-television sports channel NBC Sports Network has acquired rights for the Arca Racing stock car-racing series in a four-race deal.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have signed a new 10-year rights agreement, from 2014 to 2023, with Hockey Canada, the governing body of ice hockey in the country.

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has opened the sales process in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the next cycle of rights to the Champions League, Europa League and Super Cup club competitions.

MUTV, the pay-television channel operated by English Premier League club Manchester United, has signed distribution deals with Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2, Icelandic media group 365 and pay-television broadcaster SkyNet in Myanmar.

German commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired rights for the Audi Cup pre-season club football tournament.