SportBusiness Staff

Rugby League

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB said it would start showing matches from the Super League, English rugby league’s elite competition, on Monday evenings as well as its usual Friday night slot.
Snooker

Snooker commentator Clive Everton said the IMG Media agency had been given too much power as an independent producer of the BBC’s snooker coverage, in criticism of the handling of the termination of h…
Football

The Team Marketing agency set a deadline of February 10 for a third round of bidding in the tender for the rights in France for the Uefa Europa League football tournament for the three years from 2012-13…
Football

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America acquired exclusive rights for the Italian Serie A in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with the MP & Silva agency

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB will launch a new online television service, giving access to its Sky Sports channels as well as other content, in the first half of this year
Football

The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, forecast that its annual international media rights income would increase by 50 per cent to over €70 million ($91.7
Cricket

UK pay-television operator BSkyB renewed its rights deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board for home international and domestic cricket for four-and-a-half years, from 2014 to the summer of 2017

Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR agreed a deal with Olympic Broadcasting Services, the International Olympic Committee’s host broadcaster, to produce the international signal for alpine skiing e…
Tennis

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport renewed two major tennis rights deals, for the French Open for three years, from 2012 to 2014, and the US Open for six years, from 2012 to 2017

Commercial broadcaster Antena 3 is the favourite ahead of rival Telecinco to secure the free-to-air and internet rights in Spain for the Formula One motor-racing championship in 2012 and 2013, currently…