SportBusiness Staff

Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India included new media rights in its global tender for India national team matches in an attempt to achieve a higher rights fee
Basketball

Italian media group Mediaset, which owns Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco, said it would be interested in acquiring domestic rights for the Spanish basketball league, the ACB, from the start of…
Ice Hockey

The SM Liiga, Finland’s top-tier ice hockey competition, said that it was interested in signing only long-term domestic rights deals beyond its current contract, which ends next season.

Sports broadcaster ESPN International acquired ex-North America rights for motor racing’s Star Mazda Championship and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship.
Football

Portuguese Liga club Benfica this week rejected a renewal offer worth €111 million ($149 million) over five seasons, or €22.2 m

US network NBC has partnered with YouTube to use the video-sharing website’s online player to deliver streamed coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games on the NBC Olympics website, according to online news w…
Football

Pay-television broadcasters Al Jazeera and Canal Plus have both acquired rights in France for German Bundesliga and Italian Serie A football in deals with the MP & Silva agency covering the 2012-13 to…

Public-service broadcaster consortium the European Broadcasting Union is set to confirm an agreement to produce and distribute the television coverage of the remaining rallies in the 2012 World Rally Championship,…

French pay-television channel Orange Sport is set to close after parent company Orange failed to find a buyer for it, according to French media reports
Football

The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, is setting up a subsidiary company to handle the production of its media content