Europe

Football

Philippe Blatter, chief executive of the Infront Sports & Media agency, said his company’s interest in acquiring media rights for Russian football’s Premier League was based on the large potential for…

Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, ordered a news story to be removed from the broadcaster’s Sky News website following a complaint that it had upset Formula One t…

Qatar Holding, the investment arm of sovereign wealth fund the Qatar Investment Authority, increased its stake in French media conglomerate Lagardère to 12.8 per cent.

Sky Sports F1, the new Formula One-dedicated channel from UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, attracted an average audience of 874,000 for its live coverage of Sunday’s season-opening Australian grand p…
Horse Racing

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 will launch a tender to find a broadcast production partner after acquiring domestic free-to-air rights from the Racecourse Media Group for the Royal Ascot, Derby, Grand…
Tennis

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, acquired exclusive live rights to next month’s Fed Cup tennis match between Great Britain and Sweden.
Football

Jaume Roures, the director of Mediapro, said the Spanish agency would like to offer live football matches via its Gol TV pay-television service for less than €1 ($1.3

The Constantin Medien media company, which owns the Team Marketing agency and German sports broadcaster Sport1, is looking for investors for its sports division, but is not willing to sell the unit, according…
Tennis

The Mediaset media group, which owns Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco, said it would consider bidding for the rights in Spain for the French Open tennis tournament for three years, from 2012 to…
Football

Football’s European governing body Uefa said it would sanction England’s Football Association and Premier League after Tuesday’s Liverpool v Everton Premier League game was broadcast live on the same …
Football

Lega Serie A, the top Italian football league, will know tomorrow whether it will have a digital-terrestrial pay-television broadcast partner for the live matches of Serie A’s smaller teams for the next t…
Football

The Spanish Mediapro agency said it would sue Real Sociedad after the Spanish Liga club agreed a rights deal worth €50.1 million ($66.8
Football

Alex Martinez Roig, the head of content at Spanish pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, called for the country’s government to end a long-running arrangement under which one football match per week f…
Football

Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired rights in France for Spanish Liga football for three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, according to Le Figaro
Horse Racing

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC is resigned to losing the domestic free-to-air rights for the Royal Ascot, Derby and Grand National horse racing events to commercial broadcaster Channel 4, according…
Football

Mario Figueiredo, the president of the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional, Portugal’s professional football league, said he would take his fight to introduce a collective broadcast rights model i…

The Asset Ogilvy agency extended two rights deals in Greece for the Formula One motor racing series, one with commercial broadcaster Alpha, and another with pay-television broadcaster OTE
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia for the Champions League and Europa League for the three seasons from 2012-13 to 2014-15.