Europe

Motor-racing’s World Rallycross Championship will this year be broadcast live and in full for the first time on free-to-air television in the UK and Ireland after series operator the IMG agency secured new rights deals.

Football

The Infront Sports & Media and MP & Silva agencies both reacted angrily yesterday (Sunday) to reports which appeared in the Italian press over the weekend regarding the handling of the 2014 auction for Serie A media rights and alleged occult payments to help out certain Italian football clubs.

Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Netherlands has extended its rights deal in the country for events operated by the men’s Association of Tennis Professionals.

Football

Turkish Super Lig football club Galatasaray has agreed a three-and-a-half year partnership with digital sports content and media group Perform.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has moved to expand its presence in Poland by securing a carriage deal with cable-television operator Multimedia Polska.

Multi-sport

James Murdoch is set to return as chairman of pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky, replacing Nicholas Ferguson in the role.

Football

German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert has said he expects the next set of broadcast rights for the Bundesliga to be awarded before the Uefa Euro 2016 national team tournament, despite the threat of the Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, intervening in the process.

Gaelic Sports

Paraic Duffy, director general of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, has stated his desire to extend contracts with pay-television broadcasters, despite calls for games to return to free-to-air channels.

Vincent Bolloré, chief executive of media company Vivendi, has held talks about agreeing a carriage deal with, and acquiring a stake in, pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France – according to a report in French newspaper Libération.

Football

Vodafone has asked the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, to suspend a recent carriage deal for the new beIN Sports LaLiga pay-television channel between rival telco Telefónica and the Mediapro agency.

Gymnastics

The final day of the 2016 British Gymnastics Championships will be covered live by UK public-service broadcaster the BBC.

Football

Italian Serie A football team Inter Milan has entered into a partnership with Chinese internet company Le Sports for carriage of its club television channel.

Skiing

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has secured rights to Europe’s Ski Classics long-distance cross-country skiing competition in the United States and Canada.

Ice Hockey

German telco Deutsche Telekom has acquired rights for the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, the top division of ice hockey in the country.

Football

The Mediapro agency is preparing to offer football rights to the rivals of telecommunications company Telefónica in Spain in an effort to ease antitrust concerns, according to Bloomberg.

Football

German commercial broadcaster RTL and media group Constantin Medien, which operates sports broadcaster Sport1, have signalled their interest in the free-to-air rights for the next cycle of the Bundesliga, the top division of German football.

Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Netherlands has sealed a rights deal in the country for the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour.

Skiing

The German Ski Federation (DSV) has renewed a rights deal with SportA, the sports-rights agency that represents German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF.