SportBusiness Media staff

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corporation is drawing up plans to launch a summer competition featuring Europe’s top football clubs.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired rights for the next edition of the Ultimate Fighter mixed martial arts series, which will feature Canadian fighters for the first time.

Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has criticised Tennis Australia’s decision to award a five-year domestic rights extension for the Australian Open to rival broadcaster Seven without holding an auction.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will retain more than $6bn (€4.6bn) from their 25-year local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable under a “tentative” agreement with the league, a report has claimed.

The MP & Silva agency has been appointed by the Scottish Premier League to distribute rights for the country’s top division of football in all overseas markets, excluding European Union territories.

Spanish agency Mediapro has confirmed a rights deal with Fifa, football’s global governing body, for coverage of the 2014 World Cup.

Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports is interested in acquiring English Premier League football highlights rights in Ireland vacated by public-service broadcaster RTÉ, according to the Irish Independent newspaper.

The NFL American football’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise has announced a rights deal with local broadcaster WFLA-TV/News Channel 8.

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital has been granted a 10-year licence for its proposed US sports-dedicated television channel by the German Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK).