Canada

Athletics

Asian Games: The organising committee of the 2014 Asian Games signed memorandums of understanding with Korean networks KBS, MBC and SBS, provisionally appointing them as host broadcasters
American Football

American football: US sports broadcaster ESPN agreed an eight-year extension to its rights deal with the NFL for Monday night matches, worth $15.2bn (€10.95bn).
Football

Football: SNTV, the sports news agency operated by the IMG agency and The Associated Press, has acquired non-exclusive news clip rights outside Europe for the Confederation of African Football’s Africa C…
Basketball

Basketball: Bwin, the online gaming company, extended its media and marketing rights contract with Fiba, the International Basketball Federation, for four years, from 2011 to 2014
Football

Football: The Brazil-based Traffic Sports agency concluded media rights deals for the 2011 Copa America in Paraguay, Canada and Belgium and in more than 50 countries with YouTube (see page this issue)

Comcast-NBCU network lands $4.38 billion four-games US Olympics deal

Football

Romanian pay-TV rivals bolster sports content...Final Copa deals in place...Liga rights talks in Venezuela...Premier League piracy case delay
Tennis

Tennis: The MP & Silva agency acquired the European rights outside France for the French Open in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2017, with the Fédération Française de Tennis, the French tennis federation. T
Badminton

Badminton: Indian sports broadcaster Neo Sports signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, for the Badminton World Federation World Superseries, with the global rights-holder, the Malaysia-based Total…
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF renewed their rights for the home matches of the men’s national team, women’s national team, men’s domestic league third-tier (3. Liga
Ice Hockey

NHL exploring several innovations to increase rights fees in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Athletics

Archive: UK pay-television operator ESPN agreed an archive sports programming deal with public-service broadcaster the BBC. More than 80 hours of archive footage will be shown on the ESPN Classic channel
Golf

Golf: Pay-television golf broadcaster the Golf Channel acquired the rights to the Asian Tour in North America, Latin America and Japan in deals with Asian Tour Media, the distributor of the tour’s media r…
Badminton

Badminton: The Badminton World Federation, badminton’s governing body, signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, with IMG Media for the global exploitation of all media rights for the BWF's major e…
Football

Football: Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE and regional Catalan broadcaster TV3 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League
Rugby League

Rugby League: Pan-regional broadcaster Setanta Asia acquired rights for the Australian National Rugby League’s Premiership and State of Origin competitions in a two-year deal, covering 2011 and 2012, w…
Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts: Canadian channel The Fight Network acquired the English-language broadcast rights in a multi-year deal for kick-boxing promotion It’s Showtime.
Boxing

Boxing: Triumph Media Group extended its deal with Klitshcko Management Group covering the distribution of the global media rights to the 2011 fights of Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko