Australian tennis rights set to be put out to tender, report says
Tennis Australia, the governing body for the sport in the country, is expected to put out to tender its next cycle of free-to-air domestic rights for the Australian Open tournament, according to the Australian…
Ukraine’s Xtra TV expands sports offering
Ukrainian satellite-television broadcaster Xtra TV has launched a new sports package
Premier League launches rights sales in Asia and Australasia
English football’s Premier League has issued an invitation to tender for its next cycle of live audiovisual rights in Asia and Australasia.
Sportsman to sell international rights for German basketball
The Sportsman Media Group has agreed a deal to sell media rights outside Germany for the German Basketball Bundesliga in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons
Bwin sponsors Sportfive’s World Cup qualifiers video platform
Online betting company Bwin will sponsor the Qualifiers 2014 digital streaming platform that was launched by the Sportfive agency on September 7
RTÉ renews Six Nations rugby rights
Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ has renewed its rights for rugby union’s Six Nations tournament for four years, from 2014 to 2017.
BBC Worldwide agrees London Marathon rights extension
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has extended its deal to distribute the international rights for the London marathon for three years, from 2016 to 2018
TVSM Spotlight report on domestic rights deals of the big five European leagues
Austerity measures may be biting but the market for the audiovisual rights to top European football shows no sign of contracting
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Football: Uefa, football’s European governing body, appointed newly-created company CAA Eleven as its global sales agent for the European Qualifiers package of media rights.
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