Liga to start on time, but rights dispute continues
The 2012-13 Spanish Liga season will start as scheduled this weekend after clubs were assured at a meeting on Tuesday that progress had been made in talks to bring an end to a broadcast rights dispute…
Canal Plus to produce and show French athletics meetings until 2016
Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired the domestic broadcast and production rights for events run by the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme, the French athletics federation, in a four-year dea…
Fox renews Concacaf Champions League and Gold Cup rights
US broadcaster Fox has renewed its deal with Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, for rights to the federation’s Champions League club competition a…
Sportsnet and CBC team up again for Fifa events
Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has acquired rights to a number of Fifa events, including the 2014 Fifa World Cup, in a sublicensing deal with rights-holder CBC, the public-service broadcaster…
Bandsports acquires Top 14 rights
Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has renewed a rights deal for the Top 14 French domestic rugby union tournament.
The deal will run for two seasons, from 2012-13 to 2013-14
Sri Lanka Premier League secures mobile platform in India
Indian mobile television service Zenga TV has secured the exclusive mobile streaming rights to the inaugural season of the Sri Lanka Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition
Channel 4 recruits IMG for horse racing production
IMG Sports Media has signed a deal to produce horse racing coverage on UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 for four years, from January 2013 to December 2016
London 2012 breaks US viewing record for NBC
The NBC Sports division of US network NBC said the London 2012 Olympic Games set a new record as the most-watched multi-day event in US television history, while UK public-service broadcaster the BBC reported…
Setanta Sports Eurasia picks up Serie A and Ligue 1
Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports Eurasia has acquired rights for the top domestic football divisions in Italy and France from the MP & Silva agency
Imagenio agrees carriage deal for Champions League football
Spanish telco Imagenio, owned by Telefónica, agreed a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV for Uefa Champions League football coverage from next season.