Europe

Eleven Sports will begin showing live Serie A matches in Italy this weekend, in a deal which will cost the company nothing but could have multiple advantages.

Dorna Sports has prevented a decline in the value of MotoGP rights in Greece, renewing its deal earlier this month with Cosmote for about the same fee.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV this month extended its horse racing portfolio by acquiring rights to the 2017 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for a nominal fee.

England’s Rugby Football Union has said it will provide live streaming of games from new women’s league the Premier 15s.

Russian Premier League president Sergey Pryadkin has said talks are being held with privately-held broadcaster Match TV over a three-season extension to its rights deal for the top division of domestic football.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has widened its coverage of US sports in Italy by acquiring rights to National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball and American football.

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV is launching a new 4K channel to showcase its football coverage.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 11th September and Sunday 17th September, featuring Match Day 1 from the Uefa Champions League. W

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights to the Europa League, the second-tier competition operated by European football’s governing body Uefa.

Italian media group Mediaset has confirmed it has entered a bid for the domestic rights to the 2018 and 2022 editions of national team football tournament the Fifa World Cup.

Clubs in football’s English Premier League are said to be in disagreement over a proposed new model for the way revenue from the sale of overseas media rights is shared out between teams.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights to the upcoming world heavyweight boxing match between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz.

TF1 has signalled its interest in acquiring rights to the 2024 summer Olympic Games in Paris, while fellow French commercial broadcaster M6 is also interested, according to Les Echos.

The British Basketball League has agreed a streaming partnership with UK-based online news and entertainment company Unilad.

German media company Constantin Medien has said it has reached an agreement to end all legal proceedings in the Swiss courts with its subsidiary, Highlight Communications.

Simon Green, head of UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, has played down the threat posed by the likes of social media platform Facebook and internet company Amazon in the bidding for the next set of rights to the Premier League, the top division of English club football.