Richard Welbirg

Interview with Oliver Duss, senior vice president of sales at the Catalyst Media agency, on the media rights strategy behind the International Champions Cup summer friendly competition for 2015.

The welterweight clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas this Saturday is set to smash all records for media-rights revenue for a single fight.

Eurosport’s acquisition of Champions League rights in Singapore is a message to rights-holders and platforms about the broadcaster’s growing ambitions, according to chief executive Peter Hutton.

All of the industry’s major rights agencies were present in Bahrain this week at the Asian Football Confederation annual congress to try to agree media-rights deals with Asian federations.

World Rugby, rugby union’s global governing body, has earned a strong increase in the value of its Rugby World Cup media rights in Latin America.

Strong commitments – in both financial and attention terms – offered by the RDA Television and IEC in Sports agencies persuaded World Rugby to eschew larger players in its search for a new distribution partner for its second-tier properties.

Interview with Todd duBoef, president of the Top Rank Boxing promoter, on the broadcast sales process for the ‘fight of the century’ between Floyd Mayweather Jr. v Manny Pacquiao.

Major League Soccer will enjoy a substantial increase in exposure in Brazil in the 2015 season, which got under way at the end of March.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is understood to view this month’s five-year deal for its rights as the best that was possible in current market conditions.

Restocking its depleted motorsport portfolio with a growing property was a major driver behind Fox Latin America’s renewed and lengthened deal with North American stock car-racing series Nascar last month.