Europe

Public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV have acquired rights in the UK to the next two editions of the Uefa European Championship national team football tournament.

Digital sports media company Perform has acquired digital clip rights in the Netherlands for the Uefa Europa League club football competition.

RTL will explore a possible bid for the next cycle of domestic rights to the Bundesliga, the top division of football in Germany, according to the commercial broadcaster's programme director, Frank Hoffmann.

Italian media company Mediaset has said it and its management "have always acted in full compliance with the regulations" after further details emerged this week about an investigation into the allocation of rights for Serie A, football's top division in Italy.

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus has extended a rights deal for the Euroleague Basketball European club tournament.

European Tour Productions has been appointed by the R&A to produce broadcast coverage of golf’s Open Championship in Britain.

The Euroleague Basketball organisation has agreed a five-season extension to its partnership with Viasat, the pay-television broadcaster owned by media conglomerate the Modern Times Group, across multiple Baltic and Nordic markets.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has expanded a rights deal for coverage of the Bundesliga, the top division of football in Germany.

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has agreed two-season extensions to its rights deals with telecommunications firm Telekom Romania and pay-television broadcaster Arena Sport TV.

German public-service broadcaster ZDF has acquired rights for the 2015 Race of Champions motorsport event.

Infront Sports & Media has confirmed that the prosecutor of Milan opened an investigation on Friday against Marco Bogarelli, the president of the agency’s Italy division, and associates Andrea Locatelli and Giuseppe Ciocchetti.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has acquired exclusive rights across the Nordic region for the LaLiga and Serie A top football divisions in Spain and Italy.

The NBC Sports Group division of media company NBCUniversal has struck a deal to assume live coverage in the US of golf’s Open Championship from the 2016 edition of the British event – a year earlier than planned.

Media company Liberty Global has acquired a stake in London-based digital media company Copa90, which specialises in football content.

Documents have been confiscated from Lega Serie A offices and several clubs in the top division of Italian football as part of an ongoing investigation by the country's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, into the sale of domestic media rights, according to the Ansa news agency and the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.

The Sportsman Media Group agency has signed a long-term partnership with the Badminton Europe Confederation through which it will market the exclusive worldwide media rights to its European Championships events.