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IMG and Sportfive move on growing digital rights market

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has renewed its rights deal for American football’s National Football League for the forthcoming season.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has said it will walk away from showing live coverage of the Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country, unless it can retain its rights for…

This week’s BBC deal for the rights to four editions of the Olympic Games has taken the International Olympic Committee to $1.0

Sportsman and Red Bull link up to check Sky Deutschland

KommAustria, the Austrian media regulator, was justified in limiting the price Sky Austria could charge the country’s public-service broadcaster ORF for using the pay-television broadcaster’s clips of …

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed carriage deals for its channels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands with cable-television operators owned by international telecommunications…

The Sportsman Media Group agency acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the final of Spanish football’s domestic cup competition the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa, the a…

The Sportsman Media Group agency will continue to distribute the rights for Spanish football’s top-tier league, La Liga, in Germany and Austria, after agreeing a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, w…

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

Austrian commercial broadcaster ATV surprised the local market by outbidding public-service broadcaster ORF for the rights for the Austrian national football team’s away qualifying matches for the 2014 F…

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF renewed its rights deal with the Österreichischer Skiverband, the Austrian ski federation, for Fédération Internationale de Ski World Cup events, in a five-year de…

Basketball: US Asian-focused sports network One World Sports acquired exclusive rights for Chinese basketball’s top-tier league, the CBA, in a multi-year deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency, m…

EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain