Europe

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has joined forces with Orange Polska, the Polish arm of telecommunications company Orange, to roll out a 4K service in the country.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights in Italy to the 2017 Fifa Club World Cup, while pay-television operator StarTimes, which broadcasts in sub-Saharan Africa, has extended its deal for the annual football tournament.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has linked up with combat sports distributor Fighting Spirit to deliver live boxing action in Italy and Belgium.

England Squash has struck a deal for UK public-service broadcaster the BBC to show live coverage of England’s match against a rest-of-the-world team tonight (Friday).

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has committed to televise the national basketball team’s opening two qualifying games for the 2019 World Cup after stating it has received the necessary assurances from the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) over the current dispute in the sport.

The Ligue Féminine de Basket, the top division of club basketball in France, will live stream the majority of its games for free in what it described as a “revolutionary” move for the competition.

The English Football League has moved to implement an early introduction of live streaming of its EFL Trophy competition ahead of wider use of such coverage from the 2019-20 season.

The Discovery Nordics division of media company Discovery Networks International has acquired rights in Sweden to the Ski Classics long-distance skiing championship.

European Union negotiators have reached a deal to end what it claims is unjustified geoblocking practices in the EU, but the agreement is set to exclude streaming services.

The CAA Eleven agency has launched tenders in Turkey for rights to Uefa national team properties.

Internet company Amazon and social media platform Facebook are interested in acquiring rights to LaLiga, the top division of Spanish football, according to El Confidencial.

Swedish media group Bonnier Broadcasting and multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group have hailed a new carriage deal that will see the former’s C More pay-television channels carried by the latter’s pay-television operator, Viasat, for the first time.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has agreed a rights deal with Māori Television, a free-to-air broadcaster in New Zealand, amid question marks over its contract with Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has expanded its offering in Poland with the launch of a new channel.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has extended its rights deal with electric car-racing series Formula E.

Swiss telecommunications company Swisscom has secured full control of media and cinema company Cinetrade, a major player in the Swiss sports rights market through its pay-television broadcaster Teleclub.