India’s Premier League Soccer seeks pan-Asian rights deal
Organisers of the Premier League Soccer tournament in India are in talks with three broadcasters about a South Asia rights deal for the competition, according to Bhaswar Goswami, director of Celebrity…
Canal 9 considers dropping coverage of local Valencia F1 grand prix
Spanish regional public-service broadcaster Canal 9 could drop live coverage of Valencia’s Formula One European grand prix to save money, said José Ciscar, the vice-president of the Generalitat de Valencia re…
Sky Italia attacks Serie A clubs as cold weather hits matches
Jacques Raynaud, vice-president of the Sky Sport channels at Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia, criticised clubs in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league, for failing to prevent…
CFoot to close
CFoot, the digital-terrestrial television channel owned by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, will close down at the end of the 2011-12 football season in France, according…
English cricket follows on with Channel 5
The England and Wales Cricket Board renewed its highlights rights deal with UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 for home international Test cricket, from 2014 to the summer of 2017
Optus judgment a blow for Telstra
The Australian Federal Court found that Australian telco Optus did not breach copyright laws by allowing subscribers of its TV Now service to access sports games that were originally broadcast on free-to-air…
Supersport appoints new chief executive
Happy Ntshingila was appointed as the new chief executive of Supersport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television sports broadcaster
Endemol closes sports division
Television production company Endemol said it would remain committed to developing its sports programming portfolio despite closing its Endemol Sport division
Eurosport attracts record tennis audience
Live coverage of Sunday’s Australian Open tennis men’s final generated pan-European broadcaster Eurosport’s largest-ever audience for a tennis match.
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CBS to show new ice hockey conference
CBS Sports Network, the cable sports channel of US network CBS, acquired rights for ice hockey’s National Collegiate Hockey Conference in a multi-year deal from the inaugural 2013-14 season onwards.