SportBusiness Staff

Cricket

FOOTBALL Football: The English Premier League agreed deals for its domestic live rights with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB and telco BT for the seasons 2013-14 to 2015-16, worth a total of £3.
Athletics

European Athletics has extended a deal for the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters to sell the governing body’s media rights outside Europe.
Golf

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has renewed its exclusive rights deals in the Nordics and Baltic states for a number of golf properties, including the…
Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired the rights in France to the French national rugby team’s upcoming Test matches away to Argentina.
American Football

US broadcaster ESPN is set to close down its high school sports-focused operation, but will continue to televise sport at that level

SINCE LAST TIME The International Olympic Committee set a June 29 deadline for bids in the tender for UK rights covering future editions of the Olympic Games beyond London 2012
Football

UK telecommunications company BT said it would launch a new football-focused channel after acquiring live domestic rights for the English Premier League in a three-season deal, from 2013-14 to 2015-16
Football

Pay-television broadcaster BSkyB would only consider keeping its rights deal for the Scottish Premier League if the possible absence of Rangers football club from the top-tier competition does not extend…
Horse Racing

Australian pay-television horse racing channel TVN has acquired the rights to all thoroughbred racing held in the south-eastern states of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s two largest horse racing m…
Tennis

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport attracted a record average audience of 1.1 million viewers for its live coverage of the 2012 French Open tennis tournament