Europe

Sports media and technology company Deltatre has struck a deal with BT Sport to support the UK pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of the Uefa Champions League and Europa League European club football tournaments.

Racecourse Media Group, the owner of media rights to many of the UK’s major racecourses, has signed an exclusive partnership with gambling services provider Betgenius to distribute content to online bookmakers.

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Équipe 21 has acquired rights to Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain.

French Ligue 1 football club Angers SCO is set to conclude a takeover deal for regional broadcaster Angers TV.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has struck a deal to acquire 100 per cent of Irish commercial broadcaster UTV, which owns the television assets of UTV Media, for a total cash consideration of £100m (€136.7m/$154.8m).

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has renewed media rights deals in Cyprus, Latvia and Lithuania for the 2015-16 season.

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has signalled its intention to remain the main rights-holder of the Bundesliga when the tender for the next rights contract to the top division of German football is launched.

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.