Lines quits CAA
Phil Lines has quit the US-based sports agency Creative Artists Agency
French league confirms CFoot will close
The French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, today confirmed that CFoot, the league’s digital-terrestrial pay-television channel, will close at the end of the 2011-12 football season.
FIA issues call for new World Rally Championship promotional partner
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, motorsport’s world governing body, issued a call for candidates interested in “getting involved as an agent, a promoter or an investor in the promotion of” the…
Team asks M6 and Canal Plus for separate Europa League bids
The Team Marketing agency asked French commercial channel M6 and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to submit separate bids as well as a joint offer for the rights for the Uefa Europa League football…
ABS-CBN acquires Philippines national football team rights
Filipino commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN acquired rights from the Philippine Football Federation for national team matches in a four-year deal, from 2012 to 2015
Cage Warriors seals broadcast deal in the Middle East
Cage Warriors, the mixed martial arts championship, agreed a deal with News Corp-owned media company Fox International Channels for live rights to its events in the Middle East in 2012
Boxing rights deal for US broadcaster Wealth TV
US cable-television channel Wealth TV acquired exclusive rights to the WBC Continental Americas Lightweight title boxing bout between Chris Howard and Arash Usnamee in Georgia in the US on March 17
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Football: Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation acquired the rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in a deal with the Sportfive agency
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The long-running Fifa-ISL corruption case was referred to Switzerland’s highest court, the Federal Court.