Africa

Australian Rules Football

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired exclusive rights in the UK, Ireland, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules championship, in a three y…
Football

The Communications Commission of Kenya, the country’s media regulator, should consider forcing pay-television broadcaster DStv to sell on some of its English Premier League content to rival companies i…
Cricket

Lagardere needs its friends in Qatar to keep Al Jazeera at bay
Football

FA set for small increase in Asia with new MP & Silva deal
Rugby Union

Supersport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, has been appointed host broadcaster of this year’s rugby union Junior World Championship in South Africa.

Samsung and SuperSport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, have partnered to create an application for the electronics company’s internet-connected television sets in South Africa.
American Football

NFL set to follow Nordic deal with IMG Media renewal
Basketball

Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning
American Football

IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Football

Sportfive set to make healthy profit on Caf rights deal

Football

'Creating a market' with no audience measurement data
American Football

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Football

Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation agreed a sponsorship deal with mobile telecommunications company MTC which has helped it fund the acquisition of the rights for the 2012…
Football

The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation’s hopes of raising the funds needed to acquire rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament were boosted after mining company First Quantum M…
Football

Public-service broadcaster the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for rights to this year’s Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.
Horse Racing

Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
Football

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
Cricket

Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom