Sri Lanka Premier League seals deals with ESPN and ATN
Somerset Entertainment Ventures, the commercial rights-holder for the Sri Lanka Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition, agreed rights deals for the competition with pay-television broadcaster ESPN…
Singtel shows Community Shield after eleventh-hour deal
Singaporean telecommunications operator Singtel acquired rights for the 2012 English Community Shield pre-season football match for its IPTV pay-television service Mio TV
Sportdigital acquires rights to top-tier French and Italian league football
German sports broadcaster Sportdigital has agreed rights deals for the top-tier domestic football leagues in France and Italy, Ligue 1 and Serie A, with the MP & Silva agency
Ten Sports tops up with Brazilian domestic football leagues
Asian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has agreed a three-year deal, from 2012 to 2014 for rights to the Brazilian Serie A, the top-tier Brazilian football league, and the Campeonato Paulista, the…
ARD and ZDF renew national athletics rights agreement
German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renewed their rights deal with the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband, the German athletics association, until 2016
Five in running for free-to-air Spanish football rights, Mediapro says
The Mediapro agency has received five bids for the free-to-air domestic rights covering the Spanish Liga and Segunda División, the top two divisions of football in the country.
NRL is sustainable if deal is not reached by November 1, commission says
The Australian Rugby League Commission, the body which runs the National Rugby League, said it has contingency plans to cater for the possibility that a new domestic media rights deal is not agreed by…
Sky wins appeal against Ofcom on wholesale prices for sports channels
Britain's Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled against a decision by UK media regulator Ofcom that pay-television broadcaster BSkyB must make its flagship sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, available…
ICC secures Latin American platform through ESPN deal
Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports, the global media distribution rights partner of the International Cricket Council, cricket’s global governing body, has agreed a deal with the ESPN International p…
Ten Sports adds English Football League rights to portfolio
Asian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the English Championship, the second tier of football in England, and the country’s League Cup knockout tournament.