SportBusiness Staff

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed rights deals in Bulgaria for the Champions League and Europa League with commercial and pay-television broadcaster BTV, and state broadcaster BNT f…
Rugby Union

African rugby union’s governing body, the Confédération Africaine de Rugby, appointed African media company LC2 Médias as its media partner in an agreement designed to boost the growth of the sport on t…
Football

The refusal of Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster to comment on the impact on the league’s new domestic television rights deal of Glasgow Rangers’ looming demotion to the Scottish thi…
Football

Chelsea’s 2011-12 Uefa Champions League triumph netted the club €59.4 million ($74.8 m

Chinese internet portals Sina, Sohu, Tencent and Netease have turned down sublicensing deals for live rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in favour of on-demand rights, according to local news service the…
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed rights deals in the Ukraine for the Champions League and Europa League, and in Albania for the Champions League, for the 2012-13 to 2014-15 period.
Triathlon

The Infront Sports & Media agency has secured media rights agreements for this year’s Ironman and Ironman 70.3 triathlon events which give them coverage in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Football

Enrique Sanz will leave his position as vice president of the Traffic Sports USA agency to become the new general secretary of Concacaf, the governing body of football in North America, Central America…
Football

Swedish commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV4 has acquired rights to the top French football league, Ligue 1, in a two-year deal from 2012-13 to 2013-14
Cricket

Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan has passed up the opportunity to broadcast the upcoming cricket series between India and Sri Lanka in favour of concentrating on its coverage of the 2012 Olympic…