SportBusiness Staff

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a multi-year rights deal to show Baylor University’s sports events.

The Ufa Sports agency will act as the global media rights distributor for next two editions of the World Games, the International World Games Association’s flagship quadrennial event.
Football

Lega Serie B, Italy’s second-tier football league, will launch its own pay-television channel, Serie B TV, on Saturday, showing nine live matches per week and targeting €10 million ($13 million) per sea…
Football

The Spain national football team’s Fifa World Cup qualifying match at Belarus on Friday might not be available on Spanish television due to broadcasters refusing to pay the €1.5 million ($1.94
Basketball

Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia has renewed its deal for Euroleague basketball for a further three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Modern Times Group (MTG), the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has agreed a deal to take full control of Danish pay-television broadcaster TV 2 Sport, currently a 50-50 joint…
Football

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has launched a football-dedicated pay-television channel called Fox Football Channel in Malaysia

Rik Dovey, formerly deputy managing director of Sky Sports at UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, left the broadcaster in July, it has emerged
Golf

Coverage of the 2012 Ryder Cup golf tournament generated record figures for UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB’s internet and mobile service Sky Go.
Athletics

Eurovision, the television producer operated by the European Broadcasting Union, and Russian state broadcaster VGTRK have agreed a deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations to host…