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Football

Football: Korean IPTV broadcaster Spo TV acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League for the three-year period from 2012-13 to 2014-15 for $11.1m (€8m) (page 2).
Football

Norway's football clubs benefit from competitive rights market

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).
Basketball

Basketball: US Asian-focused sports network One World Sports acquired exclusive rights for Chinese basketball’s top-tier league, the CBA, in a multi-year deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency, m…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, completed its Champions League rights process in Brazil by renewing deals with pay-television operator ESPN and free-to-air sports broadcaster Esporte I…
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
Ice Hockey

Medge/AMI break the ice with big MTG deal in the Nordics
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…
Football

Football: Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera acquired the
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.
Football

Italy games heading for pay-TV
Football

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

Football

Danish league holds its value but Canal 9 loses key content
Boxing

Touchdown for ESPN but cloud over NHL...Traffic busy in Mexico...Lega channel may annoy Sky...Sucker punch on Primetime
Ice Hockey

Medge/AMI race the clock in Europe but NHL is relaxed
Football

Football: Korean media group SBS acquired the rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in a deal worth between $180m (€124m) and $200m (see story this issue).