SportBusiness Staff

The Singaporean government will not force pay-television sports broadcasters to lower their subscription prices, according to Yaacob Ibrahim, the city-state’s minister of information, communications a…
Football

Armenian public-service broadcaster Armenia TV has acquired the live free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Football

UK public-service broadcaster BBC Wales has agreed a two-year deal with the Football Association of Wales for highlights rights to the Welsh national team’s home matches, from 2012-13 to 2013-14.
Football

The US Soccer Federation, football’s governing body in the United States, signed an agreement with T3Media that will allow the video management and licensing services company to manage the body’s video ass…
Football

Italian broadcasters Mediaset and Sky Italia have reached a deal to share live coverage of games involving Italian teams in the Uefa Champions League and Europa League over the next two seasons, 2012-13…
Football

The Mediapro agency and pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV are competing to acquire the media rights of Spanish Liga club Celta Vigo for the next three seasons, in a deal which is expected to earn the…
Football

Liberty Global-owned broadcaster Chello Central Europe has acquired rights in Hungary to the Uefa Champions League in a three-year deal from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Football

Belgian football clubs Sporting de Charleroi and Waasland-Beveren have agreed to allow pay-television broadcasters Telenet and Voo to show their home games in the Pro League, the country’s top division.

Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, the president of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, has written to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge to express his concern that a deal…

Australian commercial broadcaster Channel Nine is set to make a loss of A$30 million (€24.5 million/$30.9 million) on its coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to newspaper The Australian.