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Pan-regional media company Turner Latin America has acquired a “significant minority stake” in Brazilian free-to-air sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo.

The IOC has launched a tender for the sale of broadcast rights in 24 Asian territories for the Sochi 2014 winter Games, Rio 2016 summer Games Brazil and Nanjing 2014 summer Youth Olympic Games.

US cable television channel One World Sports has acquired rights to New York Cosmos football games – a move that marks the network’s first entry into the domestic sports rights market.

Satellite television channel Horse & Country TV is to launch in Sweden later this month via cloud-based television delivery and over-the-top service Magine.

Singapore media company MediaCorp has acquired the exclusive national broadcast rights to the 2013 Fifa Confederations Cup football tournament.

International Olympic Committee presidential candidate Thomas Bach has confirmed that he would like to launch a global Olympic TV channel should he be elected.

English Premier League football club Manchester United has appointed David Sternberg, chief executive of US sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network, a subsidiary of the NBC network, as its new head of media, according to The Telegraph newspaper.

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital is considering launching a US sports-dedicated television channel.

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport is to show coverage of the FIM Motocross World Championship after it reached an agreement with series promoter Youthstream.

The Scottish National Party says Scotland national football games will be reserved for free-to-air television in the country if the party wins a referendum for Scotland to become independent from the UK.