SportBusiness Media staff

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has extended its wholesale agreement for its Sky Sports channels with telecommunications company TalkTalk, while its Sky Sports News channel will undergo a relaunch.

TV Sports Markets today unveiled the line-up for a high-level panel discussion on digital sport at Sportel Monaco in October.

The CSI Sports media company has signed a multi-year agreement for its Fight Sports Network to exclusively broadcast fights involving China’s Olympic boxing medallist Zhang Zhilei.

US horseracing pay-television broadcaster TVG has struck a multi-year extension to its rights agreement with the New York Racing Association.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill which will introduce a law banning advertising on pay-television broadcasters, a development which could have implications for the sports rights market in the country.

German pay-television broadcaster Sportdigital has agreed a one-year deal for the rights to the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football.

OSN has acquired the exclusive pay-television broadcast rights in the Middle East and North Africa region to events organised by the WWE wrestling organisation.

US sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network, a subsidiary of media company NBCUniversal, has extended its rights deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations through to 2019.

The European Athletics continental governing body is to stream live coverage of its 2014 European Athletics Championships multi-sport event via its official website.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has formed two bid committees to oversee the sale of media rights to two forthcoming series and the Pakistan Super League, the PCB’s new Twenty20 competition.