Europe

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, renewed its rights deal for motor cycling’s MotoGP World championship for two years, from 2012 to 2013.

Dana White, the president of mixed martial arts promoter the Ultimate Fighting Championship, called for UK fans to be patient as the promoter tries to agree a new television rights deal in what he described…

Spanish regional public-service broadcaster Canal 9 decided to drop live coverage of Valencia’s Formula One motor-racing grand prix, according to news website El Economista.

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital acquired rights for the Polish Ekstraklasa, Poland’s top-tier football league, in a two-and-a-half-year deal from now until the end of the 2013-14 season.

Lega Serie A, the Italian football league, is set to split up its main free-to-air Sunday highlights package into two or more packages, after a league assembly voted on Friday to reject a low bid for the…

Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price

The French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, today confirmed that CFoot, the league’s digital-terrestrial pay-television channel, will close at the end of the 2011-12 football season.

The Team Marketing agency asked French commercial channel M6 and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to submit separate bids as well as a joint offer for the rights for the Uefa Europa League football…

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Competition in Brazil helps Spanish Liga net 70% increase

Sportfive set to make healthy profit on Caf rights deal

Eurosport set to take over WRC but a 'sweet' deal would anger North One

Traffic fails with first injunction but pushes on with Copa sales

Nordic 3pm resistance could be costly for Premier League