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…

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…

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…

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

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

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 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…

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…

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

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

UK pay-television operator BSkyB renewed its rights deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board for home international and domestic cricket for four-and-a-half years, from 2014 to the summer of 2017

Commercial broadcaster Antena 3 is the favourite ahead of rival Telecinco to secure the free-to-air and internet rights in Spain for the Formula One motor-racing championship in 2012 and 2013, currently…

The Mediapro agency has cancelled Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta’s contract to show Formula One motor-racing and is looking for a new broadcaster to acquire the rights for the 2012 season.

French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6, and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, the incumbent rights-holder, submitted bids for the domestic rights for France national team Test rugby union m…

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera agreed a deal with the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, for the one remaining package of live domestic rights for the top-tier Ligue 1,…

Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said pirate websites that stream matches illegally represent the “biggest danger” facing the sport.