Europe

Football

Leading teams in the English Premier League remain keen on obtaining a larger proportion of centrally-sold commercial rights revenues, according to outgoing Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre.
Basketball

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has renewed its rights agreement with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba).
Multi-sport

TV Sports Markets understands the Telesport agency has acquired rights in Russia to four Olympic Games, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and is currently in negotiations with Fifa for rights to the 2018 World Cup.
Ice Hockey

Finnish commercial and pay-television broadcaster MTV3 acquired a package of ice hockey rights from Infront Sports & Media, negotiating a slightly reduced fee, as local broadcasters wait on the upcoming sale of domestic ice hockey rights.
Football

The German football federation earned an increase of almost 50 per cent in the value of its domestic third-tier 3. Liga rights following deals with Deutsche Telekom and ARD last week.
Football

Uefa’s change in format and centralisation of all national team rights from 2018-19 onward has helped European football’s governing body increase the value of its rights in the UK by about 84 per cent.
Cycling

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai and sports broadcaster Eurosport have renewed their deals for the Giro d’Italia, but the shorter domestic contract length and dramatic fee increase in both deals illustrates a more aggressive approach from commercial rights-holder RCS Sport.
Football

The value of Fifa World Cup rights in Greece is likely to fall in any new deal, TV Sports Markets understands. A tender is currently open for rights to the 2018 tournament.
Air Racing

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed a rights deal for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in its home country, along with Austria and Switzerland.
Basketball

Meo, the pay-television platform of Portugal Telecom, has agreed a carriage deal for NBA TV, the cable and satellite television channel operated by the North American basketball league.

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Football

The Turner International division of US media company Time Warner has made an equity investment in London-based digital media sports firm Bigballs Media (BBM), parent company of football-focused digital video platform Copa90.
Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has appointed UK sports production company Sunset+Vine as host broadcaster for the 2017 Para Athletics World Championships, which will take place in London.
Olympic Games

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has acquired rights for the 2018 and 2020 Olympics in a sublicensing deal with media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, which has also secured agreements for the Games in five other European markets.

After two days at the Spobis conference in Düsseldorf it is clear the German media-rights industry is waiting on the outcome of two key TV deals which will be agreed in the next six months.
Cycling

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters has renewed rights-distribution agreements for the Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race, Clasica San Sebastian and Cyclassics Hamburg UCI WorldTour cycling events.
Multi-sport

Discovery Communications and Sky have agreed a new carriage deal that will allow Discovery's Eurosport channels to stay on Sky's platforms in the UK and Germany.
Cricket

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has committed to live coverage of the second season of domestic women’s Twenty20 cricket competition the Super League.