SportBusiness Staff

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia is set to snatch the media rights to motorcycling’s MotoGP from commercial broadcaster Mediaset from 2014 onwards.
Football

Italy’s top football league, Lega Serie A, has ended private negotiations with broadcasters over a series of packages of media rights and has called for bids by tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15.

Sri Lankan state broadcaster SLRC plans to take free-to-air network MTV to court over a dispute surrounding the media rights to the London 2012 Olympic Games
Boxing

Floyd Mayweather Jr's world title victory over Miguel Cotto on May 5 was the second-highest-grossing pay-per-view boxing bout for a non-heavyweight encounter, according to US pay-television broadcaster…

Telecommunications company Orange has sealed a carriage deal for pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera’s new sports channels in France.
Cricket

Sri Lankan terrestrial sports broadcaster the Carlton Sports Network has acquired rights for the Sri Lankan Premier League, the new Twenty20 cricket competition
Football

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired English Premier League rights in Sweden and Denmark, while commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2…
Football

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has acquired Spanish Liga football rights in Singapore in a deal covering three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Ice Hockey

The Infront Sports & Media agency has curtailed its live coverage of the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championship on video-sharing website YouTube after users were able to access the streams from territories…

US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable Sports will launch two new regional sports channels for the southern California region on October 1