SportBusiness Media staff

Negotiations between Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia and state broadcaster Rai over a sublicensing deal for rights to the 2014 winter Olympics have broken down.

French-language Canadian pay-television network TVA Sports has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2013-14 to 2016-17, with American football’s NFL.

UK digital-terrestrial pay-television broadcaster Top Up TV is to withdraw from the premium sports channel business after failing to agree a deal to resell pay-television operator BT Vision’s new sports channels on the digital-terrestrial service Freeview.

Indian direct-to-home operator Sun Direct is to offer its sports subscription packages at a lower price to coincide with the ICC Champions Trophy one day international cricket series.

The Fox Sports Media Group has confirmed the acquisition of rights for European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup tournaments and sublicensed half of the matches to ESPN.

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights to the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football tournaments across the Indian subcontinent.

American football’s NFL has agreed a four-year extension, from 2014-15 to 2017-18, to its partnership with telecommunications company Verizon.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to Italian, French, Brazilian and American club football competitions in a deal with the MP & Silva agency.

IMG Media has announced that Sport 24, the agency’s television channel for the airline and cruise line industry, will broadcast every match live from the British & Irish Lions’ rugby union tour of Australia.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has secured the live rights to Scotland’s three rugby union Tests during the national team’s quadrangular tournament in South Africa this month.