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Basketball

FOOTBALL Football: US Spanish-language sports broadcaster Univision Deportes acquired rights to the Germany and France national teams’ home qualifiers for the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

SINCE LAST TIME Jean-Pierre Lux, chairman of Heineken Cup organiser European Rugby Cup, said that Premiership Rugby’s deal with telecommunications company BT was “illegal.” T
Tennis

Asian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has extended a rights deal for live coverage of the US Open tennis tournament for four years, from 2013 to 2016

The Competition Commission of India, the country’s competition watchdog, has approved media conglomerate News Corporation’s buy-out of Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN’s 50-per-cent stake in pan-A…
Handball

EHF Marketing, the marketing arm of the European Handball Federation governing body, has struck new rights deals in France, the US, Canada, Slovenia, Belarus, FYR Macedonia and sub-Saharan Africa ahead…
Football

The Botswana Football Association governing body has cancelled a domestic three-year rights deal, from 2011-12 to 2013-14, with television production company RP Productions, according to the Botswana Gazette…
Football

Mahfoud Kerbadj, the president of Algeria’s professional football league, is confident the competition’s domestic rights fee income for Ligue 1, the country’s top division, will “double or even treble”…
Handball

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has agreed a four-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with the DKB Handball Bundesliga, Germany’s top handball league.
Rugby League

The National Rugby League, Australia’s top rugby league competition, said it is “comfortable” with its broadcast rights partnership with Nine, as the commercial television network awaits the outcome of ta…
Wrestling

US online streaming service Hulu Plus has agreed an exclusive multi-year deal with the WWE wrestling organisation to stream all its television shows and some of its online series