SportBusiness Staff

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…

Sports programming on US television attracted $10.9 billion (€8.6 billion) in advertising expenditure in the year to the end of September 2011, up 5.9 per cent from $10.3
Martial Arts

The World Taekwondo Federation streamed live coverage of its three-day European qualification tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games, which concluded in Kazan, Russia on Sunday
Mixed Martial Arts

Disney-owned pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired media rights for The Legend Fighting Championship, a Hong-Kong based mixed martial arts series, in Asia, Oceania, the Indian sub-continent, Europe,…

The Mediapro agency has cancelled Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta’s contract to show Formula One motor-racing and is looking for a new broadcaster to acquire the rights for the 2012 season.
Rugby Union

French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6, and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, the incumbent rights-holder, submitted bids for the domestic rights for France national team Test rugby union m…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera agreed a deal with the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, for the one remaining package of live domestic rights for the top-tier Ligue 1,…
Cricket

Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said pirate websites that stream matches illegally represent the “biggest danger” facing the sport.
Football

The Italian football league, Lega A Serie A, has extended its bid deadline for four media rights packages by one week