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The Formula E electric car-racing series has extended its media rights deal with Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV and renewed a video partnership with technology developer 360 Racing.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has unveiled a new brand identity following its takeover by US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications.

World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby union, has launched the tender process for the appointment of host broadcast services for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.

The Canadian Football League competition will stream live coverage of its end-of-season playoffs and Grey Cup finale via video-sharing platform YouTube.

The contract for the unsold commercial rights to next year’s centenary edition of the Copa América represents an opportunity for sports-rights agencies to build relationships with the two governing bodies of football in the Americas.

Spanish agency Mediapro has agreed deals with video-sharing website YouTube to plug gaps in the distribution of the international rights to the Copa del Rey and the beIN Sports pay-television channels in Spain.

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has launched a new mobile application that will facilitate live streaming of its races.

The MP & Silva agency has sealed a number of rights deals on behalf of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) for the inaugural Premier12 national team baseball tournament, which begins on Sunday.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has struck a deal to produce and supply a new global magazine programme for rights-holders of the Formula E electric car-racing championship.

The International Cricket Council has today (Wednesday) launched tender processes for the provision of production services and non-live programming services for its major events across the four-year period from 2016 to 2019.

The IMG Events & Media agency has agreed a multi-year rights partnership with North American basketball league the NBA that will see games broadcast on Sport 24, the IMG-produced live sports channel for the in-flight and in-ship markets.

Online video distribution and marketing company Rightster has announced that Patrick Walker is to step down as its chief executive and proposed that founder Ashley MacKenzie should return to the role.

Spain's LaLiga has agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency to make coverage of the domestic Copa del Rey club tournament available on video-sharing website YouTube in 17 countries.

The first global free-to-view live stream of a regular-season American football NFL game on Sunday attracted more than 15.2m unique viewers.

Increasing the value of its media rights is an essential bargaining chip for the Euroleague as it faces a threat to its long-term survival from Fiba, the sport’s global governing body.

Interview with Roberto Dalmiglio and Konstantinos Filippas, chief commercial officer and European managing director respectively of the MP & Silva agency, about the Serie A international sales cycle and recent deals in the Nordics.

Internet company Yahoo has sold out its advertising inventory for the first ever free live global stream of a regular-season game from the NFL, with the American football league stating it will closely monitor the results of the initiative as it seeks to determine whether it will proceed with further deals.

Pan-European club ice hockey competition the Kontinental Hockey League has expanded the global reach of its KHL-TV channel through an agreement with new Russian-language satellite television service TeRus.