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Reliance Communications has agreed a partnership with pan-Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports to offer live mobile streaming coverage in India of the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.

Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT has expanded its coverage of the International Ski Federation Nordic Ski World Cup by acquiring rights for events from the series taking place in Finland.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media conglomerate News Corporation is to launch a free-to-air television channel in the Netherlands that could include highlights of the Eredivisie.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will close its 3D cable-television channel by the end of the year.

RTE has confirmed it will end its coverage of English Premier League football amid cost-cutting measures at the Irish public-service broadcaster.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has announced that it will rebrand its Sky Sports 2 channel during this summer’s Ashes cricket series between England and Australia.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to show live coverage of the Champion of Champions, a new snooker event organised by the sport’s global governing body World Snooker.

Cyril Linette, the director of sports at Canal Plus, has said that the French pay-television broadcaster is not interested in acquiring rights for the French Open tennis tournament.

UK telecommunications company BT will launch its new pay-television service BT Sport with exclusive live coverage of the testimonial football match for Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard.

The Mediapro agency is understood to be finalising a deal with Fifa to acquire the pay-television rights in Spain for the 2014 World Cup.