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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.

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has hailed a landmark content partnership with social media platform Facebook.

Jose Hawilla, the founder of the Traffic agency, admitted to a judge in December that he paid bribes regularly from at least as early as 1991, according to court papers that were unsealed on Wednesday.

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has agreed a one-season extension to its partnership with social video production company Grabyo.

Media company Liberty Global has acquired a stake in London-based digital media company Copa90, which specialises in football content.

The Infront Sports & Media agency is to collaborate with Vizrt, a company that provides content production, management and distribution tools to the digital media industry, to launch a new virtual overlay solution.

Digital media service provider RR Media has launched a new online platform targeted at sports organisations.