SportBusiness Staff

Baseball

North America’s Major League Baseball has agreed new eight-year rights deals, from 2014 to 2021, with US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System.

Private equity firm Bridgepoint has moved to rationalise the management and marketing of motorcycling’s two major world championships, the MotoGP and Superbikes, both of which it owns.
Ice Hockey

Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has announced a one-year rights deal covering the 2012-13 season with sports broadcaster ESPN in North America and the UK
Football

Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TVNorge has acquired rights for Uefa Europa League games from pay-television broadcaster C More Entertainment
Golf

Australian network Seven has acquired rights for the 2012 Australian Open golf event in Sydney. Seven will broadcast 20 hours of live coverage across the four days of the tournament, on December 6-9
Basketball

US college sports conference the Atlantic 10 has agreed a new nine-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2020-21, with the NBCUniversal media group and new eight-year rights agreements, from 2013-14 to 2020-21,…
Football

Football’s European governing body Uefa has confirmed that newly-created company CAA Eleven has won the contract to sell the European Qualifiers package of centralised media rights.
Netball

Netball South Africa, the sport’s governing body in the country, has reached a five-year rights deal, from 2013 to 2017, with African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport.
Football

Spain’s secretary for sport, Miguel Cardinal, has called for changes to the way the country’s football league, La Liga, sells its media rights and handles its commercial interests.
Golf

The thrilling final day of the Ryder Cup golf tournament on Sunday in Illinois, the US, attracted the event’s highest preliminary viewing figures in the US for 13 years, according to the NBC network.