Europe

Ice Hockey

Swiss telecommunications group Swisscom has filed a complaint against rival telco UPC to the country’s Competition Commission (Weko) over the latter’s failure to grant access to its exclusive ice hockey rights to all operators.
Football

The Swedish football league earned an increase of about 120 per cent in the value of its media rights last month as Discovery continued its strategy of buying domestic football league rights in Scandinavia.
Gaelic Sports

Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association has enjoyed steady growth in commercial revenues over the last five years and is set to do so until mid-2022.
Greyhound Racing

The Global Tote, a subsidiary of sports-betting provider TopBetta, has acquired rights for UK and Irish greyhound-racing coverage.

UK viewing audiences for the week between Monday 27th March and Sunday 2nd April, plus a round-up of the year's most-watched live snooker programmes so far.
Basketball

Euroleague Basketball registered significant year-on-year increases in its television and online audiences in the 2016-17 season following a restructuring of the body’s top league and the EuroCup competition.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports will launch a third channel in Belgium tomorrow (Thursday).
Motorsport

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights to the World Endurance Championship motor-racing series.
Football

Football’s English Premier League has stepped up its efforts to prevent piracy of its content by partnering with digital platform security specialist Irdeto.
Multi-sport

Talpa Holding has acquired a 67-per-cent stake in Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS from majority shareholder Sanoma Media.
Football

Bundesliga International, the new sales and marketing unit of the German Football League (DFL), has appointed Robert Klein as its chief commercial officer.
Rugby League

The Rugby Football League, the governing body for rugby league in England, has announced that the national team’s upcoming Test match against Samoa will be streamed live online, with fans required to pay £3.49 (€4.08/$4.34) to watch the match.
Football

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has agreed a deal to show coverage of the English Women’s Super League One Spring Series club football competition on its television and online platforms.
Esports

Spanish agency Mediapro will invest more in esports after hailing 2016 as its “best ever year.”
Football

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has added to the criticism of Fifa regarding the sale of domestic broadcast rights to the 2018 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup, stating world football’s governing body is imposing “special conditions” on the host nation for the events.
Multi-sport

The European Commission has given unconditional approval to US media company 21st Century Fox’s proposed £11.7bn (€13.7bn/$14.5bn) takeover of pan-European pay-television broadcaster Sky.
Football

The Austrian Bundesliga has moved to revamp its distribution system for broadcast revenues as the top division of domestic football prepares to launch a tender for its next domestic rights deal.
Football

The Norwegian Football Federation, Norsk Toppfotball and Fotball Media have taken legal action against commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 in the belief it has infringed rights regulations for coverage of the Eliteserien, the top division of domestic football.