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Football

Bolivian state-owned telecommunications company Entel is set to renew a domestic rights deal for the Liga del Fútbol Profesional Boliviano, the Bolivian football league.
Mixed Martial Arts

Ultimate Fighting Championship, the mixed martial arts promoter, is set to confirm a new rights deal with Indonesian media group MNC

Ian Livingstone, the chief executive of UK telecommunications company BT, said he was “minded to appeal” a court decision that blocked efforts to force pay-television broadcaster BSkyB from lowering who…
Football

The English Premier League has agreed rights deals with pay-television broadcaster Astro in Malaysia and telecommunications company PCCW in Hong Kong in its latest agreements for the three-year cycle from…

American media and entertainment company Discovery Communications plans to pay “several hundred million dollars” for a minority stake in international sports broadcaster Eurosport, according to the Wal…

Media conglomerate Lagardère plans to list its 20-per-cent stake in French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus by June, according to the Financial Times. Lagardère values the stake at €1.2 b
American Football

US cable-television channel the CBS Sports Network, which is operated by the CBS network, has acquired rights for the Arena Football League, the US indoor American football league
Cycling

South African commercial broadcaster E.tv has acquired rights for this year’s edition of the annual Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge.
Football

The 20 clubs of Italy’s top football division, Lega Serie A, yesterday reached an outline agreement on the system for sharing income from the sale of media rights for the period 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Football

The English Premier League, the top division of football in England, will break through the £5 billion (€6.24 billion/$7.93