SportBusiness Staff

England’s Football League is set to sign a new four-year deal with UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting

Domestic deals for American football’s National Football League signals major changes of strategy

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a

American football:  The US National Football League signed two more television deals: an eight-year deal with Disney-owned sports cable network ESPN for Monday night games, worth $1.

The Team Marketing agency has secured good increases in television-rights fees for the next round of Champions League deals

Repackaged FA Cup and England matches could attract ITV bid, leading to increased competition, rights fees

Competition for the live rights for Italy’s Serie A football

International Badminton Federation move postpones bringing rights in-house

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has launched a digital terrestrial channel, France 4

International Hockey Federation is said to have signed its longest, most lucrative television-rights deal ever