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Mediaset considering bid for Spanish basketball rights
Italian media group Mediaset, which owns Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco, said it would be interested in acquiring domestic rights for the Spanish basketball league, the ACB, from the start of…
Finnish ice hockey league wants long-term rights deals
The SM Liiga, Finland’s top-tier ice hockey competition, said that it was interested in signing only long-term domestic rights deals beyond its current contract, which ends next season.
Benfica rejects Oliveira offer
Portuguese Liga club Benfica this week rejected a renewal offer worth €111 million ($149 million) over five seasons, or €22.2 m
Al Jazeera and Canal Plus share Bundesliga and Serie A rights
Pay-television broadcasters Al Jazeera and Canal Plus have both acquired rights in France for German Bundesliga and Italian Serie A football in deals with the MP & Silva agency covering the 2012-13 to…
Doors to close on Orange Sport
French pay-television channel Orange Sport is set to close after parent company Orange failed to find a buyer for it, according to French media reports
DFL creates media production subsidiary
The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, is setting up a subsidiary company to handle the production of its media content
Danish broadcasters warn over kick-off time reforms
Danish pay-television broadcasters Modern Times Group and TV2 Sport will demand compensation from clubs in the Superliga, the top tier of domestic football, if league matches are moved from evening to…
Europa League deals agreed in Belgium
Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in Belgium for the Europa League for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with public-service broadcaster VRT, commercial broadcaster RTL, and p…
Sportsman renews La Liga rights in Germany and Austria
The Sportsman Media Group agency will continue to distribute the rights for Spanish football’s top-tier league, La Liga, in Germany and Austria, after agreeing a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, w…
Sportfive invites bids for Olympics in Albania
The Sportfive agency invited offers for the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in Albania. Bids must be submitted by 5pm central European time on April 30
La Sexta and Antena 3 to replace TVE in basketball deal
Spanish commercial broadcasters La Sexta and Antena 3 are the favourites to acquire the rights for the Spanish basketball league, the ACB, after the incumbent rights-holder, public-service broadcaster…
French Olympic committee sued over TV licence partnership
NextRadioTV, the French media group that owns sports news website RMC Sport, sued the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français, the French Olympic committee, after claiming the governing body did n…
Champions League rights awarded in Israel
Israeli pay-television broadcaster the Sports Channel acquired exclusive live rights for the Uefa Champions League, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Crozier plays down ITV interest in Premier League rights
Adam Crozier, the chief executive of UK commercial broadcaster ITV, said the broadcaster was unlikely to bid for the rights for football’s English Premier League in the next cycle.
Infront launches Scandinavian tender for Euro handball
The Infront Sports & Media agency launched a tender for the media rights in Denmark, Norway and Sweden for the 2016 and 2018 editions of the men’s and women’s European Championship handball events.
MCS scores IRB Sevens World Series rights in France
French pay-television operator Ma Chaîne Sport acquired live rights for rugby union’s Sevens World Series in a deal that covers the remaining four rounds of the 2011-12 season and the entire 2012-13 ca…
BoxNation misses out on subscribers after system crash
The UK boxing channel BoxNation missed out on signing up about 30,000 new customers due to its subscription service crashing on February 18 in the hours leading up to its coverage of the Dereck Chisora…