Europe

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a two-season extension to its rights deal for the International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Motocross World Championship (MXGP).

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has issued the tender documents for its next set of domestic broadcast rights, with €570m ($675.4m) set as the minimum price sought to acquire television rights to all 380 games per season.

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS is keen to retain its rights to national team matches marketed by Uefa, European football’s governing body, despite the prospect of a contract being loss making for the company, according to De Telegraaf.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports will stream live coverage of a German Bundesliga football match on social media platform Facebook this week.

Tech company Amazon plans to table a bid for the next round of rights to football’s English Premier League, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

Movistar Plus, the pay-television platform of Spanish telco Telefónica, has renewed rights in the country for the Formula One motor-racing world championship, according to news service El Español.

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has approved the tender process for its next set of domestic broadcast rights.

Sports broadcaster Eurosport will showcase its OTT platform in France this weekend by exclusively streaming 15 matches from the Coupe de France club football competition.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has signed up as the first partner of commercial broadcaster Channel 4’s new digital advertising sales house, 4 Sales.

Barcelona earned the biggest television rights payment in LaLiga last season despite rival Real Madrid winning the title.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has struck a four-season extension to its rights deal for events organised by the International Biathlon Union.

Ukrainian public-service broadcaster UA:PBC has acquired rights for the Olympic Games in a sublicensing deal with media company Discovery Communications.

The Discovery Networks Sweden division of media company Discovery Networks International has acquired exclusive rights to English club football competition the FA Cup.

BeIN Media Group has claimed the “most ambitious” football offering in the Spanish market after agreeing a carriage deal for its OTT service with the Movistar Partidazo pay-television channel of telco Telefónica.

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has been granted an injunction by the UK’s High Court to force six internet service providers to clamp down on illegal streams of matches.

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset will not broadcast its proposed matches from the Copa del Rey amid a dispute over its rights deal with the Mediapro agency.