SportBusiness Staff

The Sportsman Media Group agency and the Red Bull Media House production company have jointly been appointed to promote the World Rally Championship motor racing series from the start of the 2013 campaign

Free-to-air commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 and pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and beIN Sport are the broadcasters in the running to acquire Formula One rights in France in the next cycle, according…
Football

Italian pay-television broadcaster Mediaset Premium has acquired rights for the A-League, the top division of football in Australia, following Alessandro del Piero’s move to Sydney FC.

About 80 of Britain’s national governing bodies in sport and related sports organisations are set to pool their commercial and media rights into the British Sports Marketing Bureau, an independent company t…
Football

English football’s Premier League has issued an invitation to tender for its next cycle of live audiovisual rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
Football

Marca TV, the digital-terrestrial channel managed by the Mediapro agency, acquired the exclusive rights to one live Spanish Liga football free-to-air match per week in 2012-13 to 2014-15

Eurosport Events, a division of pan-European broadcaster Eurosport, has extended a worldwide rights deal for the World Touring Car Championship motor-racing series for five years, from 2013 to 2017
Football

Vietnamese public-service broadcaster VTV has acquired broadcast rights for the 2012 Asean Football Federation Cup in a deal worth nearly $1 million (€764,000), according to the Vietnam Net news website.
Football

African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has extended its rights for the English Premier League for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16

The iPlayer internet catch-up service from the BBC attracted record numbers of users during the UK public-service broadcaster’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games.