Sky strikes deal for SPL and Rangers games
UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has agreed a new five-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2016-17, for rights covering the Scottish Premier League (SPL) and selected Glasgow Rangers games in the Scottish Football…
Lazarus defends NBC’s delayed coverage of Olympic events
Mark Lazarus, the chairman of the NBC Sports division of US network NBC, has defended the broadcaster’s decision to show delayed coverage of some London 2012 Olympic Games events during primetime on N…
Russia 2 picks up Bellator Fighting Championships
Russia 2, the free-to-air channel operated by Russian state-owned broadcaster VGTRK, has acquired rights for the Bellator Fighting Championships mixed martial arts series
Viasat Sport in Belarusian carriage deal
Belarusian cable-television operator MTIS has agreed a carriage deal with Viasat Sport, the pay-television channel that is owned by Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television…
New Concacaf general secretary has global broadcast ambitions
Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, wants to recruit a distribution company to sell the organisation’s broadcast rights in markets across the world, a…
ESPN Star strikes Hockey India deal and extends World Superbike rights
Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has acquired rights for the new Hockey India League and India national team hockey matches in the country, and has also extended a rights agreement for the…
Sportitalia to serve as Pro12 host broadcaster in Italy
Italian digital sports channel Sportitalia has been appointed by Federazione Italiana Rugby, rugby union’s governing body in Italy, to serve as the host broadcaster for the Pro12 tournament’s games in …
Russian Premier League wants more August games on free-to-air TV
Russian football’s Premier League is in talks with executives at Gazprom about the possibility of making more of next month’s games available on the state-controlled conglomerate’s free-to-air broadcaster NTV.
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Comcast requests stay of FCC Tennis Channel ruling
US pay-television provider Comcast has requested a stay of the decision by the country’s media regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, that it discriminated against pay-television broadcaster T…
BBC Alba commits to Scottish rugby coverage
BBC Alba, the Gaelic-language channel operated by UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has eased concerns over its commitment to Scottish rugby union by announcing enhanced coverage plans for Edinburgh…