Netherlands

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights in the Netherlands for a variety of Spanish football rights.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired the rights to baseball’s MLB World Series in the Netherlands.

Strong interest in Formula One rights across Asia from individual markets and on a pan-regional basis forced Fox International Channels to double its fee to hang on to its rights.

Sport1 has held off competition from rival pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports to renew a rights deal in the Netherlands for the Formula One motor-racing world championship.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired the exclusive television and digital rights for the MotoGP motorcycling championship in the Netherlands, as well as pay-television and digital rights in Belgium, for the four seasons running from 2015 to 2018.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports is competing with rival operator Sport1, the current rights-holder to Formula One in the Netherlands, for the motor-racing series’ next cycle of media rights, according to De Telegraaf.

US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications is in talks to acquire Talpa Media’s 33-per-cent stake in Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS, according to the media company’s owner, Jon de Mol.

Spanish agency Mediapro has acquired rights for the KNVB Cup, the leading cup competition in Dutch football.

Public-service broadcaster NOS earlier this month renewed its Dutch ice skating rights with the national federation in a deal which will cover the next Olympic cycle.

Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS this week bought rights to friendly matches of the Dutch national football team from Fox International Channels, in a sublicensing deal which is thought to cover the cost of Fox’s initial deal for the rights.

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences in the major European markets and America for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS has acquired rights to friendly matches played by the Netherlands national football team, along with highlights to the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of domestic club football, for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons.

The KNSB, the governing body of ice skating in the Netherlands, has awarded media rights for the sport’s national championships to public-service broadcaster NOS.

Dutch government minister Sander Dekker has said that public-service broadcaster NOS should disclose how much it spends on sports-rights deals.

Dutch pay-television broadcaster Sport1 last week agreed to pay a decent percentage increase in the value of its rights to the National Basketball Association.

Interview with Will Moerer, vice president of Dutch pay-television broadcaster Sport1, on the renewal of its NBA basketball rights.