SportBusiness Staff

Chinese Taipei telco ChungHwa Telecom expects to attract at least 140,000 new subscribers to its digital television services for its coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has renewed its rights for all major International Cricket Council tournaments in a three-year deal starting this autumn and running until 2015
Cycling

Giro d’Italia promoter RCS Sport is close to a deal with the Association International des Groupes Cyclistes Professionels, an umbrella group of cycling’s leading teams, that will give the teams a sha…
Mixed Martial Arts

France Ô, a free-to-air channel owned by public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, has acquired rights for a four-part television series about mixed martial arts, despite the sport being banned fr…
Horse Racing

Racing UK, the specialist horse racing pay-television channel, has acquired exclusive live rights for this year’s Kentucky Derby, which takes place this coming Saturday.
Football

Live coverage of last night’s top-of-the-table Premier League clash between local rivals Manchester City and Manchester United attracted a record-breaking audience of over four million viewers for UK p…
Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has launched its global tender process for the rights covering European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and Fifa 2018 World Cup national team tournaments.
Football

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

German public-service broadcaster ARD has renewed its rights deal for the Deutsche Tourenwagon Masters, the German touring car series, for two years, from 2013 to 2014
Football

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN will exploit its live football rights through a new website, ESPNFC, whose launch marks the first stage of a rebranding exercise that will cover all of the company’s football-dedicated w…