Europe

Tennis

Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG is in advanced discussions to renew its deal for Wimbledon tennis media rights, TV Sports Markets understands.

Cycling

The IMG agency has extended a worldwide rights agreement with Flanders Classics, the umbrella organisation for the leading Flemish cycling road races and the Paris-Brussels event.

Football

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has teamed up with LFCTV, which is operated by English Premier League football club Liverpool, to distribute content from the in-house channel.

Football

Frédéric Thiriez, the former president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has claimed that French President François Hollande’s intervention in the tender for the current cycle of domestic media rights represented a “serious breach of competition law.”

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, highlights some UK television audiences in the period between Monday 3rd October and Sunday 23rd October

Football

The strength of the UK broadcast market helped English Premier League clubs Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur to receive more prize money last season from football’s European governing body, Uefa, than any other teams participating in the Europa League tournament.

Basketball

French telecommunications company SFR has acquired rights in France for Bourges’ home games in the Euroleague Women European club tournament.

Football

By Ben Speight and Mike Kiernan Alarm bells have been ringing on both sides of the Atlantic about falling audiences for blue riband sports properties
Football

English Premier League football club Manchester City earned €83.8m ($92.18m) in Champions League prize money last season to top the table of payments from European football’s governing body Uefa, thanks to the strength of its national television market.

Wrestling

US organisation TNA Wrestling said it hopes to reveal a new UK rights partner in the near future after digital-terrestrial television channel Challenge said it would end its long-running coverage.

Baseball

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has agreed a long-term partnership with BAMTech that will lead to the formation of a European division of the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media arm of Major League Baseball.

Rugby Union

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Équipe has bolstered its rugby union portfolio by acquiring rights to three international games.

Football

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a two-season rights deal for English club football’s FA Cup, according to the El Confidencial Digital website.

Football

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to two futsal games between Germany and England, encounters that mark Germany’s first-ever internationals in football’s small-sided format.

Football

Manchester City has made its in-house media platform CityTV available through Fire TV, the streaming service of internet company Amazon – a move it claims is a first for an English Premier League football club.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has introduced a new, free service to make highlights clips of English Premier League football on its mobile application more widely accessible.

The Bonnier media group has appointed Rickard Segeborn as the new chief operating officer for sport across two of its channels.

Ice Hockey

Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR has extended a rights deal for the annual Spengler Cup ice hockey competition for five years, from 2017 to 2021.