SportBusiness Media staff

Many of basketball’s top rights-holders have pooled their rights to create an online pay-per-view service which is due to launch this week, TV Sports Markets understands.

Tennis Australia has agreed a five-year extension of its domestic rights deal for the Australian Open with commercial broadcaster Seven Network, according to the Australian Financial Review newspaper.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven Network has agreed a three-year deal with the IMG agency for the domestic broadcast rights to the Australian Masters and Perth International golf tournaments.

The Greek government has closed public-service broadcaster ERT in the latest major development in the country’s economic crisis.

The organisers of the Barcelona World Race have agreed a deal for the Amaury Sport Organisation event operator and media company to distribute the sailing event's worldwide media rights.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have agreed an exclusive multi-year broadcast rights deal with Rugby Canada.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova has acquired rights for the country’s basketball league.

Ed Delaney has been appointed to the newly-created position of executive vice-president of operations at Fox Sports Media Group, a division of US network Fox.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights for free-to-air television coverage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

The International Ski Federation has awarded television and marketing rights for the 2019 and 2021 World Ski Championships in the alpine and Nordic events to Infront Sports & Media.