Ireland

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…
Cricket

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ has acquired highlights rights for the remaining knockout matches of the International Cricket Council World Twenty20 qualifying tournament currently taking place …
Basketball

Irish pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports agreed a three-year rights deal with Basketball Ireland from 2012 to 2014
Horse Racing

Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
Football

BBC strategy comes into focus with Six Nations renewal

Horse Racing

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year deal for rights to Irish horse racing events, for the 2012 and 2013 seasons, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses.
Rugby Union

Two-event sales keep Rugby World Cup income growing

Basketball

Basketball: UK pay-television channel ESPN extended its rights for the Euroleague to cover the 2011-12 season in a deal with the league
Football

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals in the US, Canada, selected territories in Asia and Australia for its events covering the period 2015 to 2022 (see story this issue).
American Football

Six Nations set to split international TV rights ... NFL takes rights to global market ... No ESPN-Al Jazeera joint bid ... ARD/ZDF force ski concessions
Basketball

Action Sports: Apparent Gravity Media, the US-based distributor of action sports and motorsports, agreed a number of deals for the Dew Action Sports Tour and the AMA Motocross Championship series
Football

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

Football

Football: Benfica TV, the club channel of Portuguese Liga club Benfica, acquired rights for 180 matches featuring a range of clubs and national teams taking place between now and December 2011
Rugby Union

Olympic Games: Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 acquired the television, internet and mobile rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics in a deal with the Sportfive…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed three-year deals, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, for the rights for the Uefa Champions League in the UK with commercial broadcaster ITV and pay-television b…
Equestrian

THe FEI believes its new rights deals will expand exposure and increase revenues over the next four years

Athletics

Archive: UK pay-television operator ESPN agreed an archive sports programming deal with public-service broadcaster the BBC. More than 80 hours of archive footage will be shown on the ESPN Classic channel

F1 wraps up last minute TV deals, and we take a look at its wider media business as the new season starts.