SportBusiness Staff

Ice Hockey

YouTube will provide live coverage of the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championship after the Infront Sports & Media agency, the marketing partner of the International Ice Hockey Federation, launched an official…
Football

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS is reported to be close to a deal with the A-League, Australia’s top football league, for live free-to-air coverage beginning next season.
Athletics

FOOTBALL Football: Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired rights for more than 250 international football matches in the lead-up to the 2014 Fifa World Cup

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Four of the sport broadcasting industry’s most respected figures will speak at the first TVSM Live event in Paris on Thursday, May 10.

There will be no TVSM Daily on Monday, May 7, due to a public holiday. We shall resume publishing on Tuesday, May 8.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN will bid “aggressively” in the forthcoming domestic rights auction for English Premier League football as it aims to strengthen its position in the UK market, according to …
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has finally agreed a deal in Switzerland with pay-television broadcaster Teleclub for live rights to the Champions League and Europa League for three years, f…

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s future sports rights-buying could be restricted if the country’s competition watchdog, the Autorité de la Concurrence, acts upon recommendations from the …
Cycling

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has acquired rights for the 2012 edition of cycling’s Giro d’Italia in a deal with Rai, the Italian host broadcaster and distributor of the worldwide media rig…