SportBusiness Staff

Production companies Sunset+Vine and Global Television have secured a deal to jointly serve as the host broadcaster for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
Cricket

Indian pay-television operator Zee expects to halve its sports division’s operating losses in the 2012-13 financial year due to a significant rise in subscription revenues, according to the Indian Television w…

Jarrod Frykberg has been appointed as the new director of acquisitions at Australian pay-television sports broadcaster Fox Sports
Tennis

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights for ATP World Tour Finals tennis for a further two years, from 2012 to 2013

Al Jazeera’s beIN Sport French pay-television sports service, which launched last month, already has “several hundred thousand” customers, according to Charles Biétry, beIN Sport’s vice-president. Biétr
Football

The English Football League is in talks with its international broadcast partners about the possibility of showing extra Cardiff City matches in Asia in the next rights cycle, from 2012-13 to 2016-17
Boxing

The NBC Sports Network US cable-television channel has struck a deal with the Main Events boxing promoter to show between six and 16 live Saturday night ‘Fight Night’ programmes during the 2013-14 sea…
Football

Stanley Matthews will quit his position as chief executive of South African football’s top-tier Premier Soccer League to return to pan-regional sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster Multichoice.
Football

Pier Silvio Berlusconi, the vice-president of Mediaset, has said that the Italian commercial and pay-television broadcaster could be open to an exchange of Uefa Champions League and Europa League media…
Football

Thai media and technology conglomerate InTouch is planning a joint bid for English Premier League media rights, according to the Bangkok Post newspaper