Ustream acquires Arena Football League rights
The Ustream website acquired rights for US indoor American football league the Arena Football League in a two-year deal covering the 2012 and 2013 seasons
TF1 and M6 refuse to concede defeat in Euro rights battle
French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 have not given up hope of showing the Euro 2012 and 2016 football tournaments, despite reports that pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has already acquired…
Subscriptions drive Eurosport International profits
Eurosport International, the division of pan-European broadcaster Eurosport covering its activities outside its home territory of France, registered an 8.8-per-cent rise in operating profit to €65.2
MP & Silva strikes deal with Oceania Football Confederation
The MP & Silva agency agreed a multi-year deal with the Oceania Football Confederation to distribute the worldwide media rights for all confederation competitions, from now until the 2022 Fifa World Cup
Sky New Zealand extends National Rugby League deal
New Zealand pay-television operator Sky agreed a one-year extension to its existing rights deal with Australia’s National Rugby League, to cover the upcoming 2012 season.
Ustream expands relationship with Universal Sports Network
The Ustream website agreed a deal with Universal Sports Network to stream the US sports broadcaster’s live coverage of several sporting events, including the 2012 alpine skiing World Cup and the Sevens W…
Premier League ad campaign to tackle pub use of foreign feeds
The English Premier League launched an advertising campaign warning UK pubs and clubs using foreign pay-television services to show league matches that they are under threat of legal action
Fifteen bids approved for Bundesliga rights tender
Fifteen bidding companies were approved by the board of the Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, to take part in the full tender for its next cycle of the domestic rights, from 2013-14 to…
Eurosport acquires FIS World Cup rights from Infront
Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport agreed a five-year deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency for rights for Fédération Internationale de Ski World Cup events in the 2011-12 to 2015-16 seasons.
EBU renews La Vuelta rights in deal with ASO
The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of European free-to-air broadcasters, renewed its deal with the Amaury Sport Organisation and Unipublic agencies for rights for the Vuelta a España cycle …