SportBusiness Staff

Rugby Union

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has renewed a rights deal for the Top 14 French domestic rugby union tournament. The deal will run for two seasons, from 2012-13 to 2013-14
Cricket

Indian mobile television service Zenga TV has secured the exclusive mobile streaming rights to the inaugural season of the Sri Lanka Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition
Horse Racing

IMG Sports Media has signed a deal to produce horse racing coverage on UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 for four years, from January 2013 to December 2016

The NBC Sports division of US network NBC said the London 2012 Olympic Games set a new record as the most-watched multi-day event in US television history, while UK public-service broadcaster the BBC reported…
Football

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports Eurasia has acquired rights for the top domestic football divisions in Italy and France from the MP & Silva agency
Football

Spanish telco Imagenio, owned by Telefónica, agreed a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV for Uefa Champions League football coverage from next season.
Football

Indian pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports, owned by the Nimbus Communications agency, has acquired live rights to the 2012 Nehru Cup, a national team football tournament
Football

A new channel dedicated to coverage of Lega Serie B, the second tier of football in Italy, is to be launched on Italian digital-terrestrial pay-television platform Europa 7 later this month
Football

Polish pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Cyfrowy has acquired rights for Ligue 1, the top division of French football, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Football

Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for tomorrow, August 14, after 13 clubs from La Liga, Spain’s top football division, threatened to…