SportBusiness Staff

News Corp-owned media company Fox International Channels and South American television network and production company RCN Television Group have formed a joint venture to launch MundoFox, a sports and entertainment…
Football

Sports pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired rights in Latin America and the Caribbean to the Brazilian football league, the Campeonato Série A, and the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo’s state championship, in …
Horse Racing

US network NBC acquired rights for horse racing’s Breeders’ Cup in a four-year deal, from 2012 to 2015, with Breeders’ Cup Limited, owner of the thoroughbred racing series. NB
Football

A trio of broadcast sponsorship deals helped to raise the rights fee required by public-service broadcaster Botswana TV for this year’s Africa Cup of Nations, which is currently taking place in Gabon a…
Football

Spanish Liga football clubs could suffer a drop in media rights income of between 40 and 50 per cent in the next rights cycle due to consolidation and budget cuts in the domestic television industry, according…

There are no plans to merge the World Rally Championship with the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, despite the possible long-term involvement of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport in both series,…
Basketball

Executives from the IMG Media agency have had talks with David Stern, commissioner of US basketball league the NBA, about establishing a professional basketball league in India, Bloomberg reports
Football

Fox became the first US free-to-air network to show an English Premier League game live yesterday, January 22, with the Arsenal v Manchester United match
Football

French pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and Al Jazeera presented their final offers today, January 23, in the tender for the remaining broadcast rights for French Ligue 1
Football

Eredivisie Live, the league channel run by the top Dutch football league, the Eredivisie, increased its number of subscribers by 100,000 in the first half of the 2011-12 season