Europe

Football

The BBC’s desire to renew its FA Cup rights before its charter is renewed helped the English Football Association increase the value of domestic FA Cup media rights by more than 27 per cent.

Football

The investigation by Italy’s antitrust authority into the sale of Serie A rights, which led to €66m ($75m) in fines being handed down this month, centred on negotiations in a four-day period in June 2014 after bids had been made.

Multi-sport

YLE will pay a 10-per-cent increase for media rights in Finland to the Olympic Games of 2018 and 2020, despite being unable to secure coverage of some of the most valuable events.

Football

English Premier League rights fell in value in Cyprus this week as the league offered broadcasters a smaller package in an attempt to combat piracy.

Boxing

Specialist UK boxing broadcaster BoxNation told TV Sports Markets this week its recent acquisitions of three world-class events could potentially double its subscriber base, boosting its chances of long-term survival.

Multi-sport

A difficult time zone explains the much-reduced fee the BBC will pay for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, being hosted on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Cricket

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences in selected key cricket markets for the recent ICC World Twenty20 tournament

Football

Broadcast coverage of the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament in Spain remains in limbo after commercial broadcaster Mediaset rejected the opportunity to acquire the rights during its latest meeting with the CAA Eleven agency.

Football

The CAA Eleven agency has launched a tender in France for rights to a host of national team properties of Uefa, European football’s governing body.

Football

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid has launched its official television channel, Real Madrid TV, on digital-terrestrial television in the country, completing a process to secure wider coverage for the platform.

Snooker

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has signed a 10-year extension to its European rights agreement to show 18 tournaments of the World Snooker Tour on its television channels and Eurosport Player, its live and on-demand digital service.

Horse Racing

Racecourse Media Group, the holding company responsible for a range of media and data rights involving 34 of the UK’s premier racecourses, has said it distributed media rights payments totalling £80.2m (€102.8m/$116.9m) to its members in 2015.

Minor Sports

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has said it will broadcast esports for the first time through coverage of the finale of the 2015-16 season of the Virtuellen Bundesliga (VBL).

Multi-sport

Ukrainian cable television operator Volia has agreed a carriage deal with international sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Multi-sport

French telco SFR-Numericable, owned by telco Altice, has today (Wednesday) unveiled it will launch a host of new sports television channels.

Football

Cypriot pay-television broadcaster CyTAvision has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal for the English Premier League.

Football

Thai streaming platform PPTV has acquired rights for football’s English Premier League in a sublicensing deal with beIN Media Group.

Multi-sport

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has announced two new appointments to its senior management teams in Poland and Taiwan.