Europe

Equestrian

Polish pay-television operator NC Plus has agreed a three-season deal for rights to Tour Cavaliada, an annual equestrian series held in the country.

Basketball

Club basketball competition the British Basketball League will introduce live global streaming of its games next year through an initiative launched in partnership with sports technology company Hawk-Eye Innovations, sports broadcaster WebcastSport and pay-television broadcaster Sky.

Europeans will be able to access subscription media services based in their own country when they are “temporarily abroad,” according to proposals put forward as part of the European Commission’s digital single-market strategy.

Golf

Pan-Nordic pay-television broadcaster C More has confirmed it will launch a new golf channel in Sweden on January 1, 2016.

Football

D8, the digital-terrestrial television channel operated by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, has acquired rights in France for the next three editions of football’s Uefa Champions League final.

Tennis

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC will no longer offer live coverage of tennis grand slam the Australian Open.

American Football

BeIN Media Group and digital-terrestrial television broadcaster W9 have agreed three-year extensions to their rights deals in France for American football league the NFL.

French digital-terrestrial television channel L'Équipe 21 has extended a rights deal for motor-racing’s World Rallycross Championship.

Gaelic Sports

The Gaelic Athletic Association’s (GAA) Kerry County Board will propose a motion at the 2016 GAA Annual Convention to return live coverage of championship matches to free-to-air television in the Republic of Ireland.

Football

The Scottish Professional Football League, which operates the league system in Scotland, has agreed a four-season rights deal with UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport that will lead to a major revamp for its League Cup knockout competition.

Football

The IMG agency has acquired broadcast and digital clips rights for the English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, across 27 markets in Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Football

Italian Serie A club AS Roma has partnered with digital consulting firm Omnigon to unveil what it claims to be the world’s first crowdsourced official football club website.

Football

The Movistar Plus broadcast platform of Spanish telco Telefónica has acquired exclusive rights in Spain for football’s English Premier League.

Horse Racing

Racecourse Media Group, the holding company responsible for media and data rights involving 34 of the UK’s premier racecourses, is to delay the announcement of its next cycle of domestic rights until the New Year, with rival commercial broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 going head-to-head, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

Multi-sport

Irish telecommunications company Eir has made its first step in owning television content by agreeing a deal to acquire pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports.

Multi-sport

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters has adopted a declaration calling for “sporting events of major importance for society” to be available on a free-to-air basis.

Multi-sport

International pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has secured nationwide distribution in Belgium and has opened up to combat sports for the first time.

Football

Telco Altice last week blindsided French broadcasters to acquire Premier League rights in the country with a knockout first-round bid.