Europe

Cricket

Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has labelled terrestrial television as “less relevant every year,” suggesting that the body’s focus will remain on pay-television platforms in the future.

Rugby Union

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has secured the live rights to show this year’s World Rugby Under-20 Championship.

Football

The offices of Italian media company Mediaset and pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia were searched by police on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the sale of media rights for Serie A, the top division of football in the country.

Football

Irish pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports has secured the rights to the Wimbledon Championships tennis grand slam among a number of deals for major sporting properties.

Football

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, chairman of Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich, has called for reform of the German television market amid concern over the “monopoly” position in the pay-television sector held by Sky Deutschland.

Equestrian

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus has agreed terms on a three-year extension to its rights deal for the top division of domestic football, the Premier League, according to Kommersant.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired exclusive live rights for the 2015 Uefa European U-21 Championship national team football tournament.

Football

The BBC has hit back at claims by Scottish Professional Football League chairman Ralph Topping that the UK public-service broadcaster is “discriminating” against the game in Scotland.

Football

The Royal Decree that paves the way for the collective selling of Spanish Liga media rights generated fallout – a week of strike threats, insults and posturing by all sides – which diverted attention from what remains a momentous change in Spanish football.

Football

Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova extended its deal for Greek Superleague rights by two seasons last week, although two clubs still oppose the renewal.

Football

Marco Bianchi, president of the B4 Capital agency, this week told TV Sports Markets that his company’s aggressive bid to win the international rights to Italy’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa showed that Italian football was far healthier than some critics have suggested.

Athletics

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport took advantage of a lack of competition to secure live rights for the Diamond League athletics series in the key German and UK markets ahead of the 2015 season.

Multi-sport

Baku 2015 has secured broadcasting agreements in Ukraine, Georgia, Norway and Israel for the inaugural European Games.

Football

The Team Marketing agency has said it expects to generate around €5bn ($5.6bn) in revenue through the marketing of media rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League across the European club football competitions’ next three-year window.

Barbara Slater, head of the BBC Sport division of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has warned that a cut in the UK television licence fee could lead to the broadcaster losing rights to major sports properties.

Athletics

Interview with Petr Stastny, general coordinator and chief financial officer of the Diamond League, about the recent broadcast deal with Eurosport for the athletics series in the UK and Germany.

Air Racing

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the 2015 edition of the Copa América national team tournament.