SportBusiness Staff

Cricket

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is on the verge of completing a buyout of Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN’s stake in their jointly-owned pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports, according to …
Football

UK IPTV channel Sports Tonight has lodged a complaint with the country’s media regulator, Ofcom, about pay-television broadcaster BSkyB’s rights deal with the English Football League, which covers the…
Football

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions is the favourite to retain rights for France national team Test rugby union matches from July 2012 to June 2016.
Rugby League

Australian commercial broadcaster Channel Nine and pay-television operator Fox Sports have submitted a joint bid for the country’s National Rugby League rights covering five seasons, from 2013 to 2017.
American Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN has verbally agreed a new 13-year deal with college sports conference the Big 12 covering the period 2013 to 2025
Athletics

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renewed their rights deal with the organisers of the Istaf Berlin annual athletics meeting until 2015
Football

The English Premier League has launched an invitation to tender for its UK rights for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16
Football

Pay-television broadcasters Al Jazeera and Eurosport France are the two remaining bidders in the tender for the media rights for Ligue 2, the French football league’s second tier.
Football

A new piece of technology could allow UK pubs to use foreign satellite systems to show English Premier League games without violating copyright laws, according to legal experts

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have agreed a deal with Dorna Sports, the commercial rights-holder for the MotoGP motorcycling series, for highlights rights to the competition and its feeder…