SportBusiness Staff

Spanish regional public-service broadcaster Canal 9 decided to drop live coverage of Valencia’s Formula One motor-racing grand prix, according to news website El Economista.
Football

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital acquired rights for the Polish Ekstraklasa, Poland’s top-tier football league, in a two-and-a-half-year deal from now until the end of the 2013-14 season.
Australian Rules Football

Australian telecommunications company Telstra released pricing details of its live streaming service for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules league, in its latest attempt to c…
Cricket

Sporty Solutionz, the agency appointed by satellite broadcaster Channel 9 Bangladesh, global rights-holder of the Bangladesh Premier League, agreed deals in a number of territories for rights to the Twenty20…
Football

Japanese pay-television operator SkyPerfecTV renewed its rights deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, for the Champions League and Europa League for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
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
Basketball

Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV Latin America agreed a deal with US basketball league the NBA to begin carrying the NBA TV channel in the region
Football

Lega Serie A, the Italian football league, is set to split up its main free-to-air Sunday highlights package into two or more packages, after a league assembly voted on Friday to reject a low bid for the…
Rugby League

The Australian Rugby League Commission, the newly-installed governing body of rugby league in Australia, said that it would offer the new cycle of National Rugby League rights, from 2013 to 2017, to the…
Football

The IMG Media agency launched the world’s first in-flight global 24-hour sports channel on Gulf Air, the Bahrain state airline.