SportBusiness Staff

Basketball

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has agreed a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, for the exclusive rights to show NBA basketball in India

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia’s quarterly operating profit fell from $119 million (€92 million) year-on-year to $12 million in the three months to September 30, 2012.
Football

Ecuadorian state broadcaster TC Televisión, commercial broadcaster GamaTV and public-service broadcaster Ecuador TV have agreed deals to acquire rights for Serie A and Serie B, the country’s top football di…
Football

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS is preparing to ask advertisers for a rate increase due to a strong programming line-up in 2013 and new digital multi-channel strategies to cover the 2014 Fifa…

Pan-Asia sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has threatened to block carriage of three of its channels on Dish TV in India after accusing the satellite-television platform of unauthorised use of ESS’s b…
Football

Clubs in Italy’s top football league, Serie A, were split yesterday about how revenue from media-rights sales should be divided for the coming three seasons, 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Football

Eurosport France, the French arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a deal with the Fédération Française de Football (FFF), the French football federation, for rights to the U-20 national te…
Cycling

The IMG Media agency has agreed a deal with Flanders Classics, the operator of a series of six one-day cycle races in Belgium and the Paris-Brussels cycle race, to distribute media rights for the races

Ustream has agreed a deal with IMG Media that will allow the streaming website to show live sports events produced and distributed by the agency
Football

Representatives from the 20 clubs in Italy’s top football league, Serie A, were meeting late this afternoon, November 5, to attempt to thrash out a new sharing model for media rights revenues for the c…