SportBusiness Staff

Digital media company Perform’s revenue for the first quarter of 2012 increased year-on-year by 45 per cent to £31.4 million (€38.3 million/$50.7 million). P

Roger Mosey, the BBC’s director of coverage for the London 2012 Olympic Games, has said it will be a “major challenge” for the UK public-service broadcaster to provide coverage of smaller Olympic sport…

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has acquired exclusive rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games and the 2016 summer Games, in a deal with the Sportfive agency
Rugby League

David Gallop, the chief executive of the Australian Rugby League Commission, which is responsible for brokering the next cycle of domestic rights for the country’s National Rugby League, said that last w…
Cricket

The Nimbus Communications agency is interested in acquiring the rights for a proposed new Twenty20 cricket league operated by the Pakistan Cricket Board, according to the national governing body’s chairman, Z…
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in Ireland for the Champions League and Europa League for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Football

Italian Serie A football club Napoli has failed in an attempt to secure an injunction against the implementation of a model used to split media rights income between clubs in the country’s top flight.
Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has invited media companies to register their interest in the global tender process for the rights covering European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and F…

Digital media company Perform launched more than 50 sports channels on social networking website Facebook through its Livesport.tv live and on-demand sports viewing platform. Payments for the Livesport

Al Jazeera’s new French pay-television operation is struggling to secure distribution for its sports channels on the country’s dominant pay-television platform, Canal Plus. Ta