Turkey

Basketball

Digiturk, the beIN Media Group-owned pay-TV broadcaster, has agreed a three-season deal from 2019-20 onwards for the exclusive rights to Euroleague basketball in Turkey
Football

Turkish pay-television broadcaster Digiturk will pay nearly a fifth less per season in dollar terms for exclusive global rights to the country’s top-tier domestic football league, following protracted negotiations with the Turkish Football Federation and the league’s clubs.
Football

The Turkish Football Federation and beIN-owned pay-television broadcaster Digiturk have resolved their dispute over top-tier Turkish Süper Lig rights after weeks of negotiations.
Football

Turkish football’s governing body, the Turkish Football Federation, has rejected beIN-owned broadcaster Digiturk’s latest offer to renegotiate the remainder of its five-season deal for the top-tier Süp…
Football

Turkish agency Saran has negotiated a price reduction for rights to the English Premier League for the 2019-22 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands, the first time it has achieved this since acquiring the property at the turn of the decade.
Football

BeIN-owned Turkish broadcaster Digiturk has presented the Turkish Football Federation with a proposal to drastically alter its deal for rights to the Turkish Süper Lig after a depreciation in local currency caused costs to balloon, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in a number of territories to the upcoming EA Ligue 1 pre-season football tournament
Basketball

Saran Media has agreed to acquire exclusive multi-platform rights in Turkey to a series of national team events operated by Fiba, basketball’s global governing body.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Digiturk has denied claims that it is set to exit its Turkish SuperLig contract, despite allegations from the president of SuperLig team Konyaspor
Basketball

The NBA's Western Conference Finals will not be shown on Turkish television due to the presence of Turkish star Enes Kanter’s Portland Trail Blazers, who has been an outspoken critic of Turkish President R…
Motorsport

The Saran Media agency has extended a rights deal in Turkey for the MotoGP World Championship. The exclusive deal covers the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons of the motorcycle-racing series
Football

Turkish pay-television broadcaster Digiturk has acquired rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football competitions
Football

England’s Premier League issued media-rights tenders covering 17 markets on Friday (October 5), following up on the tender covering seven markets launched last Tuesday (October 2).
Basketball

Coverage of the 2018-19 season of the Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, will be available in 140 countries after the league distributed its rights in-house.
Football

Media groups beIN and Saran are seeking to renegotiate their Uefa club competition media rights deals in Turkey, as the further depreciation of the Turkish lira against the euro, dollar and pound has inflated…
Football

Turkish pay-television broadcaster Digiturk has secured a court injunction to block live video-streaming service Periscope from being available during top-tier Super Lig football matches in the country
Basketball

The Turkish Basketball Federation has today (Thursday) sealed a record domestic rights deal for the Super League (BSL) with telco Türk Telekom, which will position the top-tier club competition as its flagship sports product.

Basketball

Türk Telekom has agreed a shock deal for rights to the country’s Basketbol Süper Ligi, unseating beIN – the league’s preferred partner – with a huge bid.