Europe

Basketball

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus will continue to show La Ligue Nationale de Basket, the French basketball league, for the next five years, after a new rights deal was agreed
Australian Rules Football

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired exclusive rights in the UK, Ireland, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules championship, in a three y…
Football

Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals in Germany and Sweden for the Fifa World Cup finals.
Football

RTÉ could lose some key properties in its sports programming portfolio in a bid to meet director general Noel Curran’s target of cutting the Irish public-service broadcaster’s sports-rights budget by 2…
Rugby League

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB acquired rights for the Challenge Cup rugby league knockout competition in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2016, with the Rugby Football League, the sport’s governing b…
Darts

UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired rights in the UK and Ireland for 14 ATP and WTA tennis tournaments, continuing its recent expansion into sports beyond its core offering of football and American…
Football

The Sportsman Media Group agency acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the final of Spanish football’s domestic cup competition the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa, the a…
Sailing

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired live rights for the remaining three races of this season’s America’s Cup World Series, the feeder series for the marquee America’s Cup event. Me

French telecommunications company Orange’s pay-television sports and film channels accumulated losses of €630 million in their first three full years of operation, from 2008 to 2010, according to French new…
Football

Gianni Infantino, the general secretary of football’s European governing body Uefa, said that the English Football Association is the only one of its 53 member nations that has not yet finalised its i…
Football

The English Football League has agreed a deal with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC to jointly produce an archive of footage dating back to the 1950s
Boxing

UK boxing channel BoxNation agreed a deal with boxing promoter Golden Boy Promotions for the rights to two live fight nights per month
Football

Spanish agency Mediapro’s football channel Gol TV acquired rights to the Uefa Europa League in a three-year deal from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

A joint-venture between pay-television channel L’Equipe TV and the French Olympic committee has been granted one of six new digital-terrestrial television channel licences in France after the application w…
Football

A Spanish court has ruled that regional channel Televisió de les Illes Balears must pay Spanish agency Mediapro more than €5.3
Basketball

The Basketball Bundesliga, Germany’s domestic basketball league, is in talks with pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland, commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1
Football

Switzerland’s Supreme Court ruled that a document containing the names of officials from Fifa who took million-dollar kickbacks from the ISL agency, the former media rights distribution partner of football’s wor…
Tennis

French pay-television channel Orange Sport will broadcast the 2012 French Open tennis tournament, from May 27 to June 10, before shutting down, according to Le Parisien