Europe

Pay-television broadcaster MTV Finland has acquired rights for the MotoGP motorcycle-racing world championship.
Football

LaLiga, the organising body of Spanish club football, has maintained that commercial broadcaster Mediaset is in breach of its broadcast regulations after the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, opened proceedings against the organisation.

Telecommunications company Vodafone has revamped its sports offering in Spain after concluding a deal for rights to the Formula One motor-racing championship and the MotoGP motorcycling championship.
Triathlon

UK pay-television broadcaster Bike Channel has acquired exclusive rights in the country to three leading triathlon events.

UK free-to-air sports channel Front Runner has acquired rights to the British GT Championship, granting the motor-racing series season-long television exposure for the first time in its 25-year history.
Badminton

UK production company Sunset+Vine has agreed a deal to serve as the host broadcaster for this year’s Badminton World Federation’s World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
Football

Football’s English Premier League has won the latest round of its battle to clamp down on piracy of its audiovisual content after London’s High Court approved its request to shutdown unlicensed streams online.

UK viewing audiences for the week Monday 20th to Sunday 26th February and a review of audiences for this year's EFL Cup. Watching Brief Vol. 146
Football

French broadcaster Canal Plus has claimed it will set an advertising first for its coverage of the second leg of the Uefa Champions League football clash between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, which takes place later today (Wednesday).
Football

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights to national team football tournament the 2017 Uefa European Under-21 Championship.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights to the Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Premiership competition.
Football

The Discovery Networks Sweden division of international media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has secured domestic rights to the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, according to multiple reports.
Multi-sport

Venture capital funds Access Industries, Advent International and Pamplona Capital Management are the three finalists in contention to acquire a controlling stake in Imagina, the operator of Spanish agency Mediapro, according to El Confidencial.
Football

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to the 2019 edition of football’s Fifa Women’s World Cup, which will be staged in France.
Multi-sport

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to the 2017 World Games multi-sport event in a deal the International World Games Association hopes will provide a template for other European markets.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has maintained its hold on rights to Uefa club football competitions in the UK by extending its contract for the Champions League and Europa League.

The UK’s Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Karen Bradley, has said she is “minded to” refer US media company 21st Century Fox’s proposed takeover of pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky to UK media watchdog Ofcom after the parties involved issued formal notification of the merger to the European Commission.

Australian motor-racing series the Supercars Championship has secured new international broadcast rights deals, and has launched a new mobile application, for its 2017 season.