Europe

Rugby Union

The Six Nations last week secured a long-term deal with media company NBCUniversal in the US, but is understood to have suffered a 40-per-cent fall in the value of its rights in Italy.

Football

Any new deal for domestic Russian Football Premier League rights will likely be completed next March at the earliest, far later than the November estimate of league president Sergey Pryadkin, TV Sports Markets understands.

Tennis

The ATP is earning less from market-by-market sales in the Nordics than from the last cycle’s pan-regional deal, after Modern Times Group added World Tour rights in Norway and Sweden to its earlier Denmark deal last month. A separate deal has also been agreed in Finland with MTV3.

Motorsport

The organisers of the ADAC GT Masters German motor-racing series have secured an increase of at least 40 per cent in a new domestic rights deal with Sport1.

Football

Laola1.tv is not paying an upfront fee to MP & Silva for German Bundesliga rights in the Nordics and Romania, with the two hoping to earn revenue from sponsorship and advertising.

Spring Media, the Stockholm-based agency, has struck a deal to distribute the media rights of the Elitserien, the top tier of Swedish speedway, on an exclusive basis.

Football

The Premier League, the top division of English club football, could permit the simultaneous live broadcasting of games under its domestic rights tender for the three seasons spanning 2019-20 to 2021-22.

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Boxing

UK free-to-air digital channel FreeSports is to launch a new boxing series entitled FreeSports Fight Night.

American Football

The providers of Game Pass Europe, the official live streaming service of American football league the NFL, have unveiled a 20 per cent discount to annual subscription fees as a means of compensation for the issues that have dogged the new-look service.

Rugby League

German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has acquired rights to the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, which commences later this month.

Football

The IMG agency and state broadcaster Rai have emerged triumphant in the international media rights sales process run by Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, sealing agreements worth a total of €1.113bn ($1.326bn).

Football

Italian Serie A champion Juventus has claimed a first for the football market by entering into a partnership with online streaming service Netflix.

Multi-sport

German media and technology company Sporttotal has said it will launch its self-titled online streaming platform in Austria as part of a wider goal of creating Europe’s leading sports video service by 2020.

Basketball

Euroleague Basketball, which organises continental club competitions in Europe, has named Greek online sports platform, Gazzetta.gr, as its official premium media partner in the country.

Boxing

French telecommunications company Altice has agreed a rights deal with British boxing promoter Matchroom through which its pay-television broadcaster, SFR Sport, will hold the exclusive rights in France and Belgium to heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s next three fights.

American Football

The providers of Game Pass Europe, the official live streaming service of American football league the NFL, have said they will compensate customers after apologising for another weekend in which the platform was hit by major technical issues.

Multi-sport

Highlight Communications has moved to play down reports of an imminent takeover of its parent firm, German media company Constantin Medien.