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The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) could generate at least £7m (€8.2m/$10.7m) from the sale of rights to the end-of-season play-off games for the Scottish Premier League top division over the next four seasons, from 2013-14 to 2016-17.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has moved to defend its position ahead of the impending arrival of telecommunications company BT’s pay-television sports service by slashing its prices for broadband internet.

German media company ProSiebenSat.1 will transmit its general entertainment pay-television channel, ProSieben Fun, on a free-to-air basis during Munich’s leg of extreme sports series the X Games from June 27-30.

Fox International Channels has acquired Italian media rights to English Premier League, FA Cup, Spanish Liga and French Ligue 1 football ahead of launching a new pay-television channel.

Digital sports media company Perform is in advanced talks to acquire sports data company Opta, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The IMG Media agency has been appointed by the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal (GPCQM) organisation to distribute the media rights for the 2013 editions of cycling’s UCI WorldTour one-day races in Québec City and Montréal in Canada.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has acquired rights for the 2013 Fifa U-20 World Cup national football team tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights for the country’s national football team games in a deal with the New Zealand Football governing body.

State-owned Abu Dhabi Media Company and Dubai Media Incorporated have agreed an extension to their rights deal with the Pro League Committee, the organising body of the Arabian Gulf League – the top division of football in the UAE.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has extended a deal to show exclusive live coverage of the Scotland national rugby union team’s annual autumn international matches.