SportBusiness Staff

Basketball

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended its commercial partnership deal with the Chinese Basketball Association for the CBA League, for a further five years, from 2013 to 2017
American Football

American football’s National Football League has signed broadcast deals in Europe, a new deal with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC and a renewal with German sports broadcaster Sport1.
Baseball

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a deal to distribute the worldwide rights, excluding the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Japan, to the 2013 World Baseball Classic tournament
Darts

UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN renewed its rights deal for the Winmau World Masters, a British Darts Organisation event, for the 2012 tournament
Football

SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster in sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired rights for the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League, the top football division in the country

Uday Shankar, the chief executive of News Corporation-owned Asian pay-television broadcaster Star TV, believes that sports broadcaster ESPN will return to India, creating a highly competitive sports television…
Football

The IMG Media agency has announced the renewal of its rights deal with the Russian Premier League, the country’s top football division, to distribute international media rights for the next three seasons, f…
Football

A game involving the Poland national football team is set to be unavailable on free-to-air television in the country for the first time in 11 years after public-service broadcaster TVP was unable to agree…
American Football

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB renewed its rights deal for American football’s National Football League for a further three seasons, from 2012 to 2014.

The Sportfive agency has launched the sales process for the media rights in Greece and Cyprus to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games. Bids must be in by 5pm Central European Time on October 22