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French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired the rights to the ‘SuperCrunch’ – a pre-season rugby union competition featuring French Top 14 and English Premiership teams.

Chris Liddell has been appointed as the new chief financial officer at the WME-IMG agency.

The PGA Tour has agreed a deal with iTunes to make the golf tour’s video archive of major tournaments available on the Apple on-demand viewing service.

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has been ordered to launch a tender process at the end of the 2014-15 season for the rights to the Top 14 after the Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition authority, suspended the league’s five-year deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

North American pay-television broadcaster One World Sports has agreed a three-year deal for the rights to new pan-European club ice hockey competition the Champions Hockey League.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed a host of rights deals for the European qualifying games for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team tournaments.

London-based investment firm Odey Asset Management has rejected UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB’s offer to buy out its eight per cent stake in German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland, saying it undervalues the business.

Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin’s promoter, K2 Promotions, has signed a multi-fight rights deal with US pay-television broadcaster HBO.

Public-service broadcaster BBC Wales and Welsh language channel S4C have agreed a four-year deal securing live rights to the Pro12 from the 2014-15 season of the rugby union club competition.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have expressed an interested in returning to airing the Tour de France cycling race.