SportBusiness Staff

Rugby Union

Network Ten has taken over the domestic free-to-air rights for the Australian rugby union national team Test matches for three years, from 2013 to 2015, from rival commercial broadcaster Nine
Football

Clubs in the Belgian Pro League, the top division of football in the country, have agreed to continue to sell their media rights collectively until the end of June 2020
Cricket

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has secured carriage deals in the Philippines and Indonesia for its specialist cricket channel, Star Cricket
Basketball

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has renewed its deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN, for a further three years, from 2013 to 2015

French free-to-air and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has tabled a bid of between €45 million ($58 million) and €50 million per year for the next cycle of Formula One rights in the country, acc…
Football

The English Premier League has set a deadline of Friday, October 26 for second-round bids in the sales process for its next cycle of rights in the US, according to the Multichannel news website
Cricket

BSkyB has put on hold plans to send a production and commentary crew to cover the England national cricket team’s upcoming series against India after the Board of Control for Cricket in India made an u…
Mixed Martial Arts

Indian media company Sony has acquired exclusive rights for the Legend Fighting Championship, the Hong-Kong based mixed martial arts series, in a one-year deal for the 2012-13 season

US sports broadcaster Fox Sports has renewed its deal with the Automobile Racing Club of America for the rights to the Arca racing series in a multi-year agreement beginning in 2013
Football

US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster ESPN tabled a joint bid by yesterday’s deadline in the sales process for the next cycle of US rights to the English Premier League, the top division of f…