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Football

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport acquired rights to show all 31 matches from the Uefa Euro 2012 national team tournament on a delayed or “time-shifted” basis across the continent.

Digital media company Perform is set to take over real-time sports information provider RunningBall to enhance its sports editorial and video production facilities
Football

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC confirmed that it has signed a three-year deal worth about R215 million (€21 million/$27 million) with the South African Football Association for rights t…
Tennis

The Sportfive agency acquired the rights in Germany to tennis’s BMW Open in a deal with event organiser the Charly Steeb agency covering the three-year period from 2013 to 2015.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has secured the television rights to motorcycling’s MotoGP from the 2014 season.

The Sportfive agency awarded Belgium’s Flemish-language media rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games to public-service broadcaster VRT.
Football

Brian Sullivan, chief executive of German pay-television operator Sky Deutschland, said today that Sky’s new four-year Bundesliga rights deal, along with renewals with Hollywood film studios and the f…
Football

The French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, assigned the video-on-demand rights to Ligue 1, the country’s top division, to Dailymotion.fr, L’Equipe.fr
Football

English Premier League club Manchester City received a record £60.6 million (€74.8 million/$97.2 million) in broadcast-related payments on its way to winning the 2011-12 league championship.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has introduced strict limits in television advertising in the country but sports broadcasts will be exempt. Indiantelevision