SportBusiness Staff

Spanish Liga teams Real Madrid and Barcelona may be open to agreeing a more equal distribution of income from broadcast rights fees, according to the country’s sports minister, José Ignacio Wert.

The Oceania Football Confederation, football’s governing body in the region, has said that a bid from pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand to acquire rights for the upcoming Nations Cup national t…

Charles Biétry, the vice-president of Al Jazeera’s new pay-television operation in France, said that his offices had been searched by police last week following a complaint by pay-television broadcast ri…

The Sportfive agency has agreed a deal with the Klitschko Management Group to distribute the worldwide media rights – excluding Germany, Ukraine and North America – to fights involving Vitali and Wladimir Kli…

Polish pay-television platform ‘n’ will broadcast more than 100 hours of live and delayed action from this summer’s Olympic Games in London, after agreeing a sublicensing agreement with public-service broad…

Chuck Blazer, an executive committee member of Fifa, football’s world governing body, may have acted unlawfully over a media and sponsorship rights agreement involving Concacaf, according to lawyers r…

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera is in advanced discussions to acquire World Series of Boxing media rights for its two new channels in France, BeIN Sport 1 and BeIN Sport 2, according to l’Equipe.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB enhanced the sports offering on its Sky Go internet and mobile service by agreeing a carriage deal with British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport

Tunisian public-service broadcaster Télévision Tunisienne has reversed a decision to curtail a rights deal for the country’s national cup football competition after an emergency meeting with the Fédération Tunis…

Italian state broadcaster Rai has agreed a deal with the Italian football league, Lega Serie A, for the free-to-air highlights rights for Serie A for three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15