Europe

Basketball
Europe

Italian digital sports channel Sportitalia acquired exclusive rights for the Italian men’s national basketball team’s home matches in a two-year deal with the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro, the Ita…
Europe

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB acquired live rights for motor racing’s GP2 Series and GP3 Series, the first- and second-tier feeder series for Formula One, in a deal with Formula One Management, t…
Football
Europe

The Italian football league, Lega Serie A, is studying the bids it received today, February 3, for four packages of media rights
Football
Switzerland

The long-running Fifa-ISL corruption case has been referred to the country’s highest court, the Federal Court.
Europe

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland secured €300 million ($393 million) in financing for continued growth, strengthening its financial position ahead of the tender for the domestic rights for G…
Football
Europe

The English Premier League may be forced to alter its plan to delay its penultimate set of games by 24 hours, if pay-television broadcaster BSkyB demands it
Europe

Commercial broadcaster Telecinco said it was not interested in bidding for the free-to-air and internet rights in Spain for the Formula One motor-racing championship in 2012 and 2013, leaving rival Antena…
Football
Europe

Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS is considering bidding against public-service broadcaster NOS for highlights rights for the Eredivisie, the top tier of the Dutch football league, according to Totaal TV
Europe

Spanish regional public-service broadcaster Canal 9 could drop live coverage of Valencia’s Formula One European grand prix to save money, said José Ciscar, the vice-president of the Generalitat de Valencia re…
Football
Europe

Jacques Raynaud, vice-president of the Sky Sport channels at Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia, criticised clubs in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league, for failing to prevent…
Football
Europe

CFoot, the digital-terrestrial television channel owned by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, will close down at the end of the 2011-12 football season in France, according…
Europe

The England and Wales Cricket Board renewed its highlights rights deal with UK commercial broadcaster Channel 5 for home international Test cricket, from 2014 to the summer of 2017
Netherlands

Television production company Endemol said it would remain committed to developing its sports programming portfolio despite closing its Endemol Sport division
Rugby League
Europe

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB said it would start showing matches from the Super League, English rugby league’s elite competition, on Monday evenings as well as its usual Friday night slot.
Snooker
Europe

Snooker commentator Clive Everton said the IMG Media agency had been given too much power as an independent producer of the BBC’s snooker coverage, in criticism of the handling of the termination of h…
Football
Europe

The Team Marketing agency set a deadline of February 10 for a third round of bidding in the tender for the rights in France for the Uefa Europa League football tournament for the three years from 2012-13…
Europe

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB will launch a new online television service, giving access to its Sky Sports channels as well as other content, in the first half of this year
Football
Europe

The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, forecast that its annual international media rights income would increase by 50 per cent to over €70 million ($91.7