Europe

Kickboxing

The Glory kickboxing promotion has secured a huge increase in its latest deal in the Netherlands with Ziggo, leveraging stiff competition and a marquee fight between two Dutch stars to sign its most lucrative single deal to date.
Tennis

Modern Times Group has opted for ATP World Tour rights instead of extending its coverage of the Women’s Tennis Association Tour, TV Sports Markets understands.
Ice Hockey

The Commercial Sports Media agency is confident it can grow the value of SM-Liiga domestic media rights despite a tricky local market. CSM was last week appointed as the top-tier Finnish ice hockey league’s adviser.
Motorsport

The World Rally Championship last week earned a small increase from sports broadcaster Sport1 for its rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Football

Uefa, the governing body of European football, has said that more than two billion people watched its Euro 2016 national team tournament live on television.
Motorsport

Mike Kiernan reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship
Handball

Sportdeutschland.tv, the online sports channel of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), is in talks over a rights deal in Germany for handball’s 2017 Men’s World Championship.
Multi-sport

US media company 21st Century Fox and Sky have today (Thursday) confirmed they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended pre-conditional cash offer by the former for the fully diluted share capital of the pan-European pay-television broadcaster, which Fox and its affiliates do not already own.

BeIN Sports France president Yousef Al-Obaidly has said the pay-television broadcaster is on course for profitability despite a report claiming it has posted a cumulative loss of more than €1bn ($1.072bn) since its launch in June 2012.
Handball

DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service operated by digital media specialist Perform, has said it is in talks over a rights deal in Germany for handball’s 2017 Men’s World Championship.
Multi-sport

French media company Vivendi has upped the ante in its ongoing battle with Mediaset by stating it could acquire up to a fifth of the Italian broadcaster, leading to speculation over a hostile takeover bid.
Boxing

ITV has acquired exclusive rights in the UK to the IBO World Super Middleweight boxing bout between Chris Eubank Jnr and Renold Quinlan on February 4, with the fight to be shown on the commercial broadcaster’s new pay-per-view channel.
Football

The French Football League (LFP) has reached an agreement with its rights-holder, pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, over its coverage of the top two divisions of the domestic game.
Multi-sport

US media company 21st Century Fox is set to table a cash bid valuing pan-European pay-television broadcaster Sky, a major broadcaster of sports coverage, at £10.75 (€12.84/$13.64) per share as early as tomorrow (Wednesday), according to the Reuters news agency.
Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, is targeting media and marketing revenue of €3.2bn ($3.43bn) from its next cycle of rights to the Champions League as the tender process commences today (Tuesday).
Badminton

Lagardère Sports, the sports marketing division of conglomerate Lagardère, has extended its host broadcast and rights distribution partnership with the Scottish Open Badminton Grand Prix.
Tennis

French telecommunications company Altice has elected to close its tennis-dedicated pay-television channel, according to multiple reports.
Football

Football’s English Premier League has claimed another victory in its bid to clamp down on piracy after a man who supplied illegal IPTV boxes that allowed people to watch unauthorised content was sentenced to four years in prison.