Europe

Football

Spanish telco Telefónica will this week assume full control of Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 rights in the country.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights in Portugal to all matches from the 2020 Uefa European Championship and will now seek to find a free-to-air partner for Portugal national team matches
Tennis

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT has announced that it has acquired rights to the French Open for the next three years, adding yet more content to its new ERT Sports channel

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is in talks to buy beIN Sports, with a target completion date for the deal of before the summer, according to French media reports
Football

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has fined Sky Italia €7m ($7.9m) after ruling the pay-television broadcaster failed to properly market its rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic football.
Esports

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has agreed a deal with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar to acquire rights for this seasons eFootball.Pro League in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Boxing

Tyson Fury’s co-promotional deal with Top Rank and Queensberry Promotions cannot guarantee all his next five fights appear on ESPN in the US, SportBusiness understands.
Horse Racing

The UK’s Ascot Racecourse has agreed international rights deals for the betting market with pay-television broadcaster At The Races and SIS, a provider of end-to-end products and services to the betting a…
Football

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has acquired rights to the upcoming 2019 Fifa U-20 World Cup that will be hosted in Poland.
Handball

BeIN Media Group has told SportBusiness Media it is in talks with various parties for the domestic free-to-air rights for the Ligue Nationale de Handball competition from 2019 to 2023; one of these parties is understood to be French digital-terrestrial channel L’Équipe TV.
Esports

Russian internet company Yandex has agreed a long-term deal with US video games developer and esports event organiser Riot Games for rights to its League of Legends series
Golf

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports has confirmed that it will broadcast all four of golf’s major championships in 2019.
Motorsport

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has brought back the Formula One motor racing championship to its platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland after a one-year absence that caused a customer…
Football

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has launched a tender process in Russia for media rights to national team events that will be held from 2019 to 2022.
Badminton

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC will show the semi-final and final of badminton’s 2019 European Mixed Team Championships after agreeing a deal with its rights-holder, sports media and data provider S…
Football

Sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a new three-season deal, from 2019-20, with the IMG agency for English Premier League rights in Romania
Rugby Union

The national unions that make up the Six Nations rugby union championship are reportedly in advanced talks over a collective rights system that would effectively end plans for the launch of a World League
Football

French Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain has been left red-faced after its Uefa Champions League match against Manchester United was accidentally streamed live to a global audience on social media…