SportBusiness Media staff

Jeff Browne, the managing director of Australian commercial broadcaster Nine, said that he expects the International Olympic Committee to sell rights in the country to the 2016, 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games as a package.

Slovakian public-service broadcaster Slovak Television has been granted a licence to operate a second sports channel by the country’s Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission.

SweetSpot, the current organiser and commercial rights-holder for cycling’s Tour of Britain, is in a head-to-head battle with the Fast Track agency for the contract from 2014.

The MP & Silva agency has announced that it has reached an agreement with Al Jazeera to launch beIN Sport, the Qatari pay-television broadcaster’s sports pay-television service, in Indonesia.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has been outbid for rights to the English Premier League, the top division of football in England, by a new company.

UK telecommunications company BT has acquired rights for the World Club 7s rugby sevens competition on August 17-18 at Twickenham Stadium in London.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, telecommunications company BT, public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV have all submitted bids for the next cycle of domestic rights to the FA Cup club football competition.

US network Fox is telling potential advertisers for its coverage of the 2014 Super Bowl American football game that they must also buy advertising time through other Fox Sports content, including programming on new national channel Fox Sports 1.

Cincinnati’s NBC network affiliate, WLWT (Channel 5), has acquired local broadcast rights for all four Cincinnati Bengals primetime NFL American football games in 2013.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired rights for events operated by the Professional Darts Corporation.