Russia

Multi-sport

Panasonic has enhanced its association with the Olympic Movement by signing up as an official supplier to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Basketball

NTV Plus has secured the Russian broadcast rights to Spain's Liga Endesa basketball division in a deal until the end of the 2013-14 season. 

Rugby Union

Premiership Rugby: Why it’s the right time to launch an international club sevens tournament

Football

Olympics deal part of Slim plan to expand media empire in Latin America through top sport

Football

C More pays a little more for ice hockey to fend off rival bidders

Football

ARD/ZDF could yet join EBU qualifiers deal
Basketball

Handball deal is latest sign of Canal Plus fightback against aggressive Al Jazeera

Football

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

Athletics

Latest Premier League deals

Football

The English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, has awarded rights in Russia to pay-television broadcaster NTV-Plus and in Ukraine to the MP & Silva agency
Football

First European deals point to increase despite some drops
Football

Bigger EBU Qualifiers bid may not be enough to win over CAA
Modern Pentathlon

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus has agreed a four-year deal to produce the World Cup Series and the Senior World Championships of the Union International de Pentathlon Moderne, the international…
Athletics

Latest ARD/ZDF athletics deal confirms market correction

American Football

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2012 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets W
Ice Hockey

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK has been unable to reach a deal to show games from North America’s NHL ice hockey competition this season, according to the R-Sport news website.
Skiing

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK is preparing to launch a new sports channel dedicated to ‘socially important’ sports.