Europe

Cricket

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has reached a deal to show the final two matches of the England national cricket team’s tour of the West Indies, according to the Press Association news agency.
Football

The Mediapro agency has extended a rights deal for the Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, the top division of women’s football in Spain.
Baseball

Telecommunications company O2 Czech Republic has struck a deal to show North America’s Major League Baseball.
Tennis

OTT service DAZN has acquired exclusive rights in Spain for Women’s Tennis Association tournaments.
Handball

The European Handball Federation has reported a significant increase in digital viewing for its recent Women’s Euro 2018 tournament in France.
Motorcycling

Streaming platform DAZN has acquired rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to the MotoGP motorcycle-racing series. The deal covers the 2019 season, which gets underway this weekend in Qatar

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has signed a two-year extension to its distribution partnership with telco Orange in Belgium and Luxembourg
Horse Racing

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is poised to extend its deal for exclusive coverage of top British horse racing, according to The Times
Motorsport

Spanish telco Telefónica’s Movistar Plus platform has announced the acquisition of exclusive rights in the country to US motor-racing series IndyCar.
Football

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has agreed a rights deal for the II liga, the third tier of domestic club football
Football

IMG-owned streaming platform Strive Sport has begun streaming Major League Soccer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Its coverage begins this weekend (March 2-3) with the start of the new MLS season
indycar

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired multi-year exclusive broadcast rights in the UK to the North American IndyCar series starting from 2019, taking over coverage from rival BT Sport
Football

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT and pay-television broadcaster Cosmote have agreed sublicensing deals involving rights to the Champions League, Europa League and Formula One
Golf

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports’ new rights deal for the US PGA Championship is for the five-year period from 2019 to 2023, SportBusiness Media understands. This marks a rebuilding of the long-term partnership between rights-holder and broadcaster that ended in 2016 when Sky refused to meet rights distributor IMG’s valuation of the property.
Football

DAZN has completed its portfolio of rights to English football properties in Spain, adding the FA Cup, English League Cup and the English Football League in deals with the Pitch International agency
Football

Uefa increased the value of its European Championship in Portugal by about 35 per cent last week after delaying the tender process proved successful thanks to the arrival of sports broadcaster Eleven in the country.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has agreed rights deals in the Netherlands for North America’s Major League Soccer and South American club tournaments the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana.
Football

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has become embroiled in a dispute with the Association of Women’s Football Clubs (ACFF) over the marketing of broadcast rights to Primera División de la Liga de Fú…