DailyMotion agrees Red Bull rights deal
DailyMotion has agreed a deal that will allow the video-sharing website to show World of Red Bull action and adventure sports events
Turkey’s Sports TV acquires ITTF rights
Turkish digital and satellite-television broadcaster Sports TV has acquired rights for events organised by the International Table Tennis Federation, the world governing body of table tennis
Sportsnet buys provincial curling championships rights
Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has acquired exclusive rights for the men’s and women’s provincial curling championships in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
DirecTV snaps up Premier League rights in Latin America
Pan-regional Latin American pay-television broadcaster DirecTV is understood to have acquired rights for English Premier League football in a three-year deal from 2013-14 to 2015-16
TV Media Sport to distribute 2013 athletics World Championships in Africa
The TV Media Sport agency has been appointed to distribute the media and marketing rights in sub-Saharan Africa for the 2013 athletics World Championships in a deal with the IEC in Sports agency
Klitschko brothers sign RTL deal
German commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired rights for five future boxing bouts involving either Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko
Antitrust authority would step in over Benfica coverage, analysts say
Analysts at Portuguese bank BPI have said they would expect Portugal’s antitrust authority to force Benfica to allow all national pay-television operators to carry coverage of its matches, should the f…
News Corp secures Consolidated board’s approval for takeover
Consolidated Media Holdings’ board approved a takeover of the Australian media investment company by media conglomerate News Corporation today.
Time Warner Cable SportsNet strikes deal with West Coast Conference
Southern California regional cable-television broadcaster Time Warner Cable SportsNet has acquired rights for US college sports body the West Coast Conference
Premier League completes overseas rights hat-trick
The Premier League, the top division of football in England, has agreed rights deals in China and Macau, the Caribbean and Canada