Europe

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has been appointed as the host broadcaster of the Athletics World Cup, which will be hosted at the London Stadium on July 14-15.

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in Portugal for a variety of football properties, including the top divisions in Germany, Belgium and Scotland.

Digital sports-media company Perform has acquired a package of rights in Italy for Lega Basket Serie A, the country’s top division of basketball.

Spanish media group Prisa has terminated an agreement with multinational telco Altice to sell Portuguese media group Media Capital.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote TV has signed a two-season extension to its rights deal with North American basketball league the NBA.

Pay-television broadcaster O2 TV has acquired exclusive rights to the First League, the top tier of club football in the Czech Republic.

The Portuguese Football Federation is set to launch a television channel next year.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova has acquired rights to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has extended a rights deal for football’s English Premier League.

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has acquired exclusive rights in the Nordic region to football’s German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Belgian First Division A and Scottish Premiership, along with the Copa América national team tournament.

Comcast’s takeover bid for Sky has today (Friday) been approved unconditionally by the European Commission, setting up a multi-billion battle for the pan-European pay-television broadcaster with rival US media company 21st Century Fox.

France Télévisions, M6 and TF1, three of France’s leading media groups, will join forces to launch a new OTT platform in the country.

US technology company Oculus has said it will provide live streaming of select Fifa World Cup matches through Oculus Venues, its new app for social co-viewing.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has extended a rights deal in France for Serie A, the top division of Italian football.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in Portugal to Ligue 1, the top division of French club football.

The European Broadcasting Union’s head of winter and indoor sport is to leave the organisation in the coming weeks, TV Sports Markets understands.