SportBusiness Staff

Rugby Union

UK broadband operator BT Vision, owned by former state telco BT, has acquired rights for the French Top 14, the top-tier domestic rugby union competition in France, according to the Daily Mail newspaper
Football

Thai media conglomerate GMM Grammy has secured domestic broadcast rights to programming from the official television channels of eight major European football clubs

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 attracted an average of 7.6 million viewers and a 40-per-cent audience share for its coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony last night
Football

Luis Chiriboga, the president of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol, the Ecuadorian Football Federation, said that the governing body remained in control of its broadcast rights despite having a centralised s…

French commercial broadcaster TF1 is reluctant to match its current fee for Formula One motor racing rights and is at risk of losing them, French newspaper L’Équipe reports.
Boxing

UK pay-per-view channel Primetime has acquired rights for the middleweight world title boxing bout between Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Junior

Martin Whitmarsh, team principal of the McLaren Formula One motor-racing team, has said that the introduction of UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB as a rights-holder for the championship has reinvigorated…
Baseball

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired US and international rights for Major League Baseball for eight years, from 2014 to 2021, in a deal worth $5.6 billion (€4.5
Equestrian

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights deal with the Burghley Horse Trials, the annual equestrian event, for four years, from 2013 to 2016
Football

Video-sharing website YouTube has agreed a deal with Rightster, the digital video company, and the MP & Silva agency, for highlights content from a number of international football leagues and cup competitions