Belgium

The MP & Silva agency has tabled a bid to acquire the media rights for the Pro League, the top division of Belgian football, according to the DMorgen news service.

Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet has confirmed it plans to launch a new channel dedicated to the Pro League in partnership with the top division of Belgian football.

Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet has tabled a €900m ($1.22bn) bid for the rights to the Pro League, the top division of Belgian football, in a 12-year deal that would commence from the 2014-15 season, according to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has signed media rights agreements for the European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team competitions in the territories of Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Belgacom renews domestic basketball rights at a discount

CAA Eleven closes deal for qualifiers in Flanders

Video-sharing website Dailymotion has struck a deal with American football league the NFL to stream live coverage of games to viewers in France, Belgium and Switzerland for the remainder of the 2013-14 season.

Belgian pay-television operator Belgacom has extended its broadcast rights deal with the Ethias League, Belgium’s top tier basketball competition, for a further two years.

Fox Sports looking at Belgian Pro League rights

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in key European markets for the centenary edition of cycling’s Tour de France T

Fifa defends its attack on UK listed-events law after defeat in the European Court of Justice

Fifa and Uefa, football’s global and European governing bodies, have lost an appeal against a European court ruling that the World Cup and European Championships national team events must be shown on free-to-air television in the UK and Belgium.

ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot

Ludwig Sneyers, the chief executive of the Belgian Pro League, the country’s top football league, has said that the Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media conglomerate News Corporation i…

Rai pays less for Giro rights and more for production, but the real money will be made abroad

First European deals point to increase despite some drops

Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet has acquired domestic rights for the English Premier League, the top division of football in England, in a three-year deal, from 2013-14 to 2015-16