SportBusiness Staff

Mixed Martial Arts

The ESPN International division of sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights for the Legend Fighting Championship, the Hong-Kong based mixed martial arts series

German public-service broadcaster ZDF has acquired rights to show the 2013 International Canoe Federation World Championships, which take place in Duisberg, Germany, next August and September
Lacrosse

The National Lacrosse League, the sport’s top indoor league in North America, has struck a deal with YouTube to make live games available on the video-sharing website for the duration of the 2013 season.

Marc Watson, the chief executive of UK pay-television operator BT Vision, which re-emerged as a major player in the sports rights market at this year’s English Premier League domestic rights auction, h…
Football

StarHub is interested in acquiring non-exclusive rights for English Premier League football as long as it can break even on the investment, according to the pay-television broadcaster’s chief executive N…

The next cycle of domestic rights for the US college American football playoff competition that will replace the season-ending Bowl Championship Series (BCS) from 2014 could be split between multiple broadcasters,…

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK is preparing to launch a new sports channel dedicated to ‘socially important’ sports.

ESPN’s profits increased by 9.4 per cent to $1.38 billion (€1.07
Cricket

Pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports has acquired rights for the West Indies national cricket team’s upcoming tour of Bangladesh.

Ingrid Deltenre, the director general of the European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of free-to-air broadcasters, said that legislation to prevent certain sporting events from being exclusively shown…