SportBusiness Media staff

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has partnered with telecommunications company Vodafone India to become the country’s first broadcaster and brand advertiser to participate in the Amplify platform of social networking website Twitter.

Algerian state broadcaster ENTV has retained rights for Ligue 1, the country’s top division of football.

Newspaper publisher Axel Springer has sealed carriage deals with the Mobilcom-debitel and Klarmobil telecommunications companies for online highlights clips of the Bundesliga, the top football division in Germany.

Boxing television rights distributor and sports marketing firm Octapixx Live has reached an agreement to market the international broadcast rights for the IBF super-bantamweight title fight between Kiko Martinez and Carl Frampton.

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has said that it has withdrawn its $80bn (€59bn) bid for rival media company Time Warner and will instead buy back $6bn of its own shares.

Spanish Liga football club Barcelona has agreed a content distribution deal with video-sharing website Dailymotion.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a deal with Aberdeen to televise the decisive second leg of the Scottish Premiership football club’s Uefa Europa League qualifying game against Spanish Liga team Real Sociedad.

The Ufa Sports agency has agreed a deal to become the exclusive marketer of the global media rights to the inaugural International Premier Tennis League, which is scheduled to launch in November.

The South African Football Association’s new media rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Siyaya TV would appear to be in doubt after public-service broadcaster the SABC questioned the validity of reports that the agreement had been finalised.

Russian pay-television sports channel Sport 1 has acquired rights for English football’s League Cup club knockout tournament.