Europe

Mediaset Premium’s parent company RTI has acquired a supplementary package of rights to support the pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of Italy’s Serie A top football division for three years, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has renewed a rights deal with Matchroom Sport for the management company’s stable of boxers.

UK pay-television broadcaster the BBC has struck a deal to provide coverage of Great Britain’s games during the EuroBasket Women 2015 national team basketball competition.

German commercial broadcaster RTL has agreed a deal for a package of rights to the European football qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team tournaments.

Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus has acquired exclusive rights to the next two editions of the Copa America national team football tournament.

Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet has acquired rights for the Formula E electric car-racing championship.

The Asset Ogilvy agency has extended a rights agreement for the Formula One motor racing world championship with Greek pay-television broadcaster OTE.

Spotify has said sports broadcaster ESPN will be one of its initial partners as it seeks to diversify from its core music streaming business into video content.

Satellite Information Services (SIS), a provider of end-to-end products and services to the betting and broadcast industries, is hopeful of continuing to work with a new joint venture production unit between UK racecourse owner and operator Arena Racing Company (ARC) and Racecourse Media Group (RMG), which manages the media rights for 34 UK racecourses.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, is to restructure its senior management team by appointing regional chief executives to lead its operations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Real Madrid has joined forces with commercial partner, US software giant Microsoft, to launch a new app through which access to the Spanish Liga football club’s in-house television channel, Real Madrid TV, is set to be provided to its global fanbase.

Italian media company Mediaset and pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia have defended their positions after their offices were searched as part of an investigation by regulators into the sale of media rights for Serie A, the top division of football in the country.

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa has acquired rights for the Uefa European qualifiers rights and the governing body’s 2015 U-21 European Championships.

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 has awarded the contract to produce its forthcoming Football League highlights programme to sports production and media company Sunset+Vine.

UK racecourse owner and operator Arena Racing Company (ARC) has struck a deal with the Racecourse Media Group (RMG), which manages the media rights for 34 UK racecourses, to establish a new joint venture production organisation.

Greek pay-television broadcaster OTE has confirmed its rights extension for the Bundesliga, the top division of German football.