SportBusiness Staff

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 responded to criticism regarding the extent of its live coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by saying that it would extend its hours of main channel coverage…

Oliver Slipper, the joint chief executive of digital media specialists Perform Group, and Stephen Nuttall, director of sport for YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will be the lead panellists…

Arnaud Lagardère, the general and managing partner of Lagardère, said that he does not expect the financial results of the French media and defence conglomerate’s sports marketing division to improve bef…

Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR has extended a rights deal for the annual Weltklasse Zürich track and field athletics event in Switzerland for four years, from 2013 to 2016.
Football

Real Madrid’s victory over Barcelona on Wednesday, August 29 was the most-watched Supercopa game in Spanish television history, according to research company Kantar Media.
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed deals in Albania with commercial broadcaster Vizion Plus and pay-television broadcaster Tring TV for the Europa League from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Curling

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has agreed a deal to purchase the Grand Slam of Curling series from event organiser Insight Sports Ltd
American Football

FOOTBALL Football: Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports acquired the US rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier home games of all Concacaf nations, excluding the US and Mexico

SINCE LAST TIME

Digital media company Perform generated an 84-per-cent rise in year-on-year profit after tax to £8.56 million (€10.98 million/$13.5 million) in the six months to June 30, 2012.