SportBusiness Staff

Basketball

Australian commercial channel Network Ten will remain a domestic broadcast partner of the country’s National Basketball League despite having scaled back coverage of the competition and impending budget c…

Digital media company Perform is to launch branded channels on video-sharing website YouTube for its live sports streaming service Livesport.tv and football news website Goal.com
Boxing

UK pay-television channel Box Nation acquired the rights for the boxing re-match between Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson for the WBC light-heavyweight title in Atlantic City, the US on April 28
American Football

FOOTBALL Football:Pan-European cable and satellite sports broadcaster Eurosport extended its rights deal for the Africa Cup of Nations for the next two editions of the tournament, in 2013 and 2015

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Football

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF agreed to pay a big increase in rights fee to jointly acquire rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament
Football

The Infront Sports & Media agency is in talks with Russian football’s Premier League to acquire rights for the country’s top tier of club football in a deal that would allow state-owned broadcaster VGT…
Baseball

The USA Today Sports Media Group and MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball, announced a joint venture to develop and produce new content and products for…
Tennis

Open 13, an annual ATP World Tour 250 men’s tennis tournament, extended a deal for the IEC in Sports agency to distribute the competition’s worldwide media rights for four years, from 2012 to 2015.
Boxing

US pay-television service HBO acquired rights for the welterweight boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley in a deal with promoter Top Rank