SportBusiness Staff

Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has launched in the US after securing a carriage deal with satellite pay-television broadcaster DirecTV
Football

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights to the Spanish Liga, Spain’s top-tier domestic football league, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with the Mediapro agency.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox will launch a pay-television sports channel in Colombia next year, according to the Rapid TV News website
Ice Hockey

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, extended its rights agreement in the Baltics for Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League for three seasons,…
Football

Pay-television operator Sportklub has acquired rights in Slovenia for the Uefa Europa League football tournament, covering all live matches except the first pick match each week

Telecommunications company Portugal Telecom is in talks to buy a stake in Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV
Football

The 2012-13 Spanish Liga season will start as scheduled this weekend after clubs were assured at a meeting on Tuesday that progress had been made in talks to bring an end to a broadcast rights dispute…
Athletics

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired the domestic broadcast and production rights for events run by the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme, the French athletics federation, in a four-year dea…
Football

US broadcaster Fox has renewed its deal with Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, for rights to the federation’s Champions League club competition a…
Football

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has acquired rights to a number of Fifa events, including the 2014 Fifa World Cup, in a sublicensing deal with rights-holder CBC, the public-service broadcaster…