SportBusiness Staff
Australia

Jarrod Frykberg has been appointed as the new director of acquisitions at Australian pay-television sports broadcaster Fox Sports
Tennis
Europe

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights for ATP World Tour Finals tennis for a further two years, from 2012 to 2013
Europe

Al Jazeera’s beIN Sport French pay-television sports service, which launched last month, already has “several hundred thousand” customers, according to Charles Biétry, beIN Sport’s vice-president. Biétr
Football

The English Football League is in talks with its international broadcast partners about the possibility of showing extra Cardiff City matches in Asia in the next rights cycle, from 2012-13 to 2016-17
Boxing
North America

The NBC Sports Network US cable-television channel has struck a deal with the Main Events boxing promoter to show between six and 16 live Saturday night ‘Fight Night’ programmes during the 2013-14 sea…
Football
Africa

Stanley Matthews will quit his position as chief executive of South African football’s top-tier Premier Soccer League to return to pan-regional sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster Multichoice.
Football
Europe

Pier Silvio Berlusconi, the vice-president of Mediaset, has said that the Italian commercial and pay-television broadcaster could be open to an exchange of Uefa Champions League and Europa League media…
Football
Asia

Thai media and technology conglomerate InTouch is planning a joint bid for English Premier League media rights, according to the Bangkok Post newspaper
Belgium

Belgian pay-television operator Belgacom will launch a new sports channel, Belgacom 11 Plus, on July 27

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, motor-racing’s world governing body, and the European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of free-to-air broadcasters, have extended their production and d…