SportBusiness Staff

Pay-television newcomers Setanta in the UK and Arena in Germany are bidding strongly for US golf rights against the established pay-operators in their countries.

Olympics: Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster TV Record acquired the Brazilian media rights across all platforms for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympics Games in London in a $60m (£31m/€45m) de…

Swisscom began an aggressive move into the country’s sports-rights market this week with the acquisition of the rights for domestic league football.

British Telecom will look to acquire more sports-rights content after becoming the latest European telecoms company to enter the market.

The English Premier League’s £82 million (€119 million) deal for live rights in Ireland is a record sports-rights deal for the country.

The German football league this week ended its acrimonious dispute with Deutsche Telekom over the telecom company’s plan to use its Bundesliga internet rights to reach cable and satellite television sets.

Italy’s government is seizing upon the match-fixing scandal which has engulfed Serie A to push through new measures on television rights for football.

The English Premier League looks set to boost the sale of its international rights in Asia.

The International Cricket Council will start talks at the end of this month about a new deal for its commercial rights

Basketball: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the rights to the 2009 and 2011 European Championships and the 2006 and 2010 World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball…