Europe

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has signed a three-year extension to its rights deal with the MotoGP motorcycling series.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has confirmed it will show live coverage of the International Table Tennis Federation Team World Cup.

The International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Endurance World Championship has agreed a rights deal with Italian motorcycle racing website Corsedimoto.com.

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights to the International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Motocross World Championship (MXGP), as well as the Motocross of Nations event.

World Baseball Softball Confederation Europe has signed its first commercial partnership through a deal with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar.

Digital entertainment company Modern Times Group has completed the disposal of its international entertainment operations by selling Bulgarian commercial broadcaster Nova to PPF Group, the investment company controlled by Czech billionaire Petr Kellner.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has bolstered its football portfolio by acquiring exclusive rights to the German Bundesliga in Belgium, while it has also extended its deal for Italy’s Serie A.

Stan Wawrinka has become the latest leading tennis player to have his games live streamed via social media platform Facebook.

Imagina, parent company of the Mediapro agency, and Orient Hontai Capital have formally sealed a deal through which the Chinese private equity firm will acquire a majority stake in the Spanish media group.

Portuguese commercial broadcaster SIC has agreed a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster RTP for rights to the 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament, according to multiple reports.

The Premier League, the top division of English club football, could merge its two remaining domestic rights packages into a ‘super pack’, according to multiple reports.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said the organisation which oversees the top two divisions of Spanish club football will convert its LaLigaTV service into an OTT platform in August, with the new product to offer sports content aside from football.

Olaf Schröder will continue as chief executive of Constantin Medien after the German media company agreed a three-year extension to his contract.

After successive 70-per-cent rises in the last two cycles there were only two sets of circumstances in which the Premier League was likely to secure another increase in the value of its domestic live rights.

Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.

Spanish agency Mediapro said this week it wanted to create and distribute a Serie A league channel on the same model as the LaLiga channel it distributes in Spain. But Italian law may make this impossible.