Sky adds Challenge Cup to rugby league coverage
UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB acquired rights for the Challenge Cup rugby league knockout competition in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2016, with the Rugby Football League, the sport’s governing b…
ESPN serves up more tennis in the UK
UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired rights in the UK and Ireland for 14 ATP and WTA tennis tournaments, continuing its recent expansion into sports beyond its core offering of football and American…
Sportsman completes Spanish football hat-trick with cup rights
The Sportsman Media Group agency acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the final of Spanish football’s domestic cup competition the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa, the a…
Mediaset acquires America’s Cup World Series rights
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired live rights for the remaining three races of this season’s America’s Cup World Series, the feeder series for the marquee America’s Cup event.
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Orange’s French pay-television business loses over €600m
French telecommunications company Orange’s pay-television sports and film channels accumulated losses of €630 million in their first three full years of operation, from 2008 to 2010, according to French new…
Optus case prompts Australian government review of copyright law
The Australian government has bowed to pressure from domestic sports leagues by saying it will review parts of the country’s copyright law that permit events to be re-broadcast on mobile devices.
England last to finalise deal for centralised Uefa rights
Gianni Infantino, the general secretary of football’s European governing body Uefa, said that the English Football Association is the only one of its 53 member nations that has not yet finalised its i…
News Corp moving towards launch of new US sports network, report says
Media conglomerate News Corporation is taking steps towards launching a national US cable-television sports channel, according to Bloomberg
Government removes NRL matches from anti-siphoning list for Nine
The Australian government removed games in the National Rugby League, the domestic rugby league competition, from the country’s ‘anti-siphoning’ list, which reserves events for free-to-air broadcast, allow…
English Football League agrees archive deal with BBC
The English Football League has agreed a deal with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC to jointly produce an archive of footage dating back to the 1950s