Netherlands

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed carriage deals for its channels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands with cable-television operators owned by international telecommunications…
Football

Eredivisie Live, the pay-television channel operated by the Dutch football league, said its new Eredivisie Live Sidekick ‘second screen’ service attracted 50,000 viewers on its first weekend.
Basketball

Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning
Football

Competition in Brazil helps Spanish Liga net 70% increase

Football

Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS is considering bidding against public-service broadcaster NOS for highlights rights for the Eredivisie, the top tier of the Dutch football league, according to Totaal TV

Television production company Endemol said it would remain committed to developing its sports programming portfolio despite closing its Endemol Sport division
Football

Eredivisie Live, the league channel run by the top Dutch football league, the Eredivisie, increased its number of subscribers by 100,000 in the first half of the 2011-12 season
Football

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
Football

Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Football

Wanted: French home for acquisitive Al Jazeera... Eredivisie Live battling for content... SPL plays safe with Sky and ESPN... Conmebol confirms Full Play deal

Skiing

EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires
Football

Football: The Comcast-NBCU network acquired rights to US football’s Major League Soccer in a three-season deal, from 2012 until the end of 2014, worth $10 (€7m) to $12m per season, with Soccer United Mar…
Athletics

Athletics: The International Association of Athletics Federations secured deals for the 2011 World Championships and other events in the Netherlands, Iceland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Albania, Croatia…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed free-to-air rights deals in Portugal for Euro 2012 with public-service broadcaster RTP and commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI.
Athletics

IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain
Athletics

EBU’s Euro 2012 subsidiary in talks ... IAAF still needs to close big deals ... More increases for Uefa
Boxing

Golden Boy taking over
Athletics

Asian Games: The organising committee of the 2014 Asian Games signed memorandums of understanding with Korean networks KBS, MBC and SBS, provisionally appointing them as host broadcasters