Europe

BeIN Media Group has confirmed the acquisition of DP Acquisitions, the holding company of Turkish pay-television broadcaster Digiturk, a major sports broadcaster.

The Spanish High Court has quashed fines imposed on the Mediapro agency and four football clubs in December 2013.

Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP has acquired rights to domestic club football competition the Taça da Liga.

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP will launch a second sports channel and make its TVP Sport platform available via digital terrestrial television, according to president Jacek Kurski.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights to the inaugural Netball Quad Series, with a number of games from the national team competition set to be broadcast on its new Sky Sports Mix channel.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has renewed a rights deal for the NHL North American ice hockey league.

Fininvest, the parent company of Italian broadcaster Mediaset, has filed a claim for damages of €570m ($643m) against French media company Vivendi for allegedly failing to comply with the terms of a takeover deal for pay-television division Mediaset Premium.

Belgian commercial broadcaster RTL has entered into a strategic partnership with international sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network, through which it will be granted rights to show live coverage of Serie A, the top division of club football in Italy.

French telecommunications company SFR-Numericable will show live coverage of an English Premier League football match on free-to-air television next month.

Domestic coverage of the top men’s and women’s Swedish handball leagues will switch from commercial broadcaster TV4 to pay-television broadcaster C More, it has been confirmed.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Russia for Italy’s Coppa Italia club knockout football competition, according to the Sports.ru news website.

Virtual reality broadcast technology company NextVR, through its partnership with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox, will provide coverage of the opening game of the 2016-17 German Bundesliga club football season in live virtual reality.

The BBC has confirmed that its digital coverage of the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro reached 102.3 million unique global browsers – a record for the UK public-service broadcaster.

UK pay-television operator Virgin Media has demanded that mobile operator EE’s deal with pay-television broadcaster BT for access to the BT Sport channels is suspended, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Digital sports media specialist Perform Group has rejected a series of investment offers from US technology and media companies, according to the UK’s Telegraph newspaper.

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has asked a court in Milan to enforce the sale of its pay-television division, Mediaset Premium, to French media company Vivendi.