MENA

Tennis

Nordic WTA talks
Rugby Union

TF1 pays big increase to hang on to Rugby World Cup
Football

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the country’s public-service broadcaster, has acquired live rights for tonight’s (Tuesday) qualifying match for the 2014 Fifa World Cup between the Iran and…
Basketball

TVE loses Euroleague rights to Marca TV but ERT hangs on to Greek league in late deals
Basketball

Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 10 has renewed a rights deal with Euroleague Basketball for coverage of Israeli team Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s matches in the competition.
Horse Racing

State-owned media company Dubai Media Incorporated has reached a four-year rights deal, from 2013 to 2016, with Racecourse Media Group, which controls the media rights of 30 British racecourses, and English…
Football

The Premier League chose to start its international sales in the Americas with good reason: bidding wars are expected in the US and Brazil

Cricket

Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales

Football

YouTube football deals good timing for Premier League
Football

MCS advances in France and beyond
Football

How Eredivisie deal fits into Fox expansion strategy

Football

Al Jazeera helps Pitch to pull off Brazilian rights coup
Football

Italian volleyball goes global

Israeli pay-television broadcaster the Sports Channel has acquired rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in a deal with the Sportfive agency
Football

New Conmebol event could become replacement for Copa; Why the US is the perfect host
Football

Italian market about to get very hard for rights-holders as Sky and Mediaset cosy up
Football

Final agency bids are in but Uefa still has talking to do to close deal for qualifiers
Cricket

How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one