Europe

Minor Sports

The International Orienteering Federation has pointed to the benefits of a new media strategy after stating a record number of territories will be able to see broadcasts from this year’s World Orienteering Championships in Sweden.

Multi-sport

The European Commission has given the green light to the proposed merger between Ziggo, the Dutch cable-television operator held by media company Liberty Global, and mobile phone operator Vodafone.

Olympic Games

Political turmoil, arguments over price and the beginning of Turkish Süper Lig negotiations has created a logjam in the Turkish sports-rights market, badly affecting rights-holders including the International Olympic Committee and the English Premier League.

Football

New inventory and strong broadcaster competition has seen the value of Uefa’s package of national team rights increase markedly in Scandinavia.

Tennis

The French tennis federation last week secured an increase of just over 11 per cent in the value of its domestic French Open rights after agreeing an early renewal with France Télévisions.

Football

An absence of competition in Spain and the Indian subcontinent has seen the value of International Champions Cup rights stall in both markets.

Ice Hockey

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports is close to renewing its deal for National Hockey League rights in the UK for which it will pay an increase of about 25 per cent, TV Sports Markets understands.

Football

The second-tier of English football will be shown in Russia once more after the Pitch International agency struck a one-season deal covering 2016-17 with pay-television broadcaster Eurosport worth about $100,000 (€91,000).

Football

Lukas Zajancauskas, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in selected European markets for the Uefa Euro 2016.

Football

LaLiga, the operator of the Spanish Football League, has sealed a carriage deal with telecommunications company Vodafone for its LaLiga 1|2|3 TV channel, which provides live coverage of matches in the country’s Segunda División second tier.

Football

English Women’s Super League football club Manchester City will live stream this weekend’s fixture against Doncaster Rovers Belles on social media platform Facebook.

Ice Hockey

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to this year’s edition of ice hockey’s World Cup of Hockey national team event.

Horse Racing

The UK’s Bookmakers Technology Consortium has sealed a rights deal with the Racing Partnership, which represents 22 racecourses across the country.

Olympics

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has launched a new experimental service ahead of the 2016 summer Olympic Games that will provide 360 degree video coverage of the action in Rio de Janeiro.

Squash

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Singapore and Taiwan to the Professional Squash Association’s (PSA) World Series tournaments under a multi-year agreement.

Olympic Games

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has said it is up to German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF to make progress in discussions over sublicensing rights for the Olympic Games.

Boxing

German pay-television channel RTL Nitro has acquired rights for the middleweight world title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook on September 10 in London.

Cycling

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has expanded its rights agreement for the Vuelta a España cycling event.