SportBusiness Staff

Boxing

UK boxing channel BoxNation agreed a deal with boxing promoter Golden Boy Promotions for the rights to two live fight nights per month
Football

Spanish agency Mediapro’s football channel Gol TV acquired rights to the Uefa Europa League in a three-year deal from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

A joint-venture between pay-television channel L’Equipe TV and the French Olympic committee has been granted one of six new digital-terrestrial television channel licences in France after the application w…
Football

Fox Sports, a division of US broadcaster Fox, agreed a carriage deal with Net, Brazil’s largest cable-television operator, for its recently-launched pay-television channel Fox Sports Brasil.
Hockey

India’s World Series Hockey agreed a deal to provide live streaming of the remainder of its inaugural event on video-sharing platform YouTube.
Golf

US pay-television broadcaster the Golf Channel renewed its exclusive rights deal for the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major of the season in the women’s game, for a further three years, from 2…
Baseball

The Guggenheim Baseball Management consortium agreed a deal to acquire Major League Baseball franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2 billion (€1.5
Football

The Communications Commission of Kenya, the country’s media regulator, should consider forcing pay-television broadcaster DStv to sell on some of its English Premier League content to rival companies i…
Cricket

Bennett Coleman & Co, the Indian media group that publishes the Times of India newspaper, and media company Network 18 have acquired tender documents for the global media rights of the Board of Control…
Football

A Spanish court has ruled that regional channel Televisió de les Illes Balears must pay Spanish agency Mediapro more than €5.3