United Kingdom

Basketball

ESPN signs NBA and keeps options open

Football

Skynet pays a high price to keep Forever at arm's length
Basketball

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has agreed a deal for television rights in the UK and Ireland for the remainder of the US National Basketball Association’s 2012-13 season.
Squash

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has agreed a deal with the Professional Squash Association for rights to the 2013 squash World Series Finals
Boxing

Matchroom Sport, the promotion company owned by Barry Hearn, has acquired the UK rights for the WBA super middleweight boxing title fight between Mikkel Kessler and Brian Magee on Saturday in Denmark
Athletics

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 intends to sell on the media rights to the 2013 athletics World Championships to public-service broadcaster the BBC, according to the Daily Mail newspaper

UK telecommunications company BT has agreed a 10-year lease, from 2013 to 2022, for the anchor tenancy of the London Olympic Park international broadcast centre, which will become the home of the new BT…
Football

Niall Sloane, the head of sport at UK commercial broadcaster ITV, has urged Fifa, football’s world governing body, to ensure matches start on time during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, according to BBC N…
Basketball

UK pay-television broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN are in talks with the NBA about acquiring rights for the North American basketball league, according to the Daily Mail newspaper
Boxing

UK pay-per-view channel Primetime TV has received 700 complaints from people who were unable to watch UK boxer Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko on Saturday night due to technical i…
Australian Rules Football

Fox and SBS 'investing in the future of Australian football'; How the new deal breaks down

UK telecommunications company BT has launched a tender process for a communications and marketing agency to promote its pay-television platform BT Vision, which has been revamped by recent sports rights…
Boxing

UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights for events featuring the British Lionhearts team in the World Series of Boxing, an annual competition organised by the International Amateur Boxing…

UK telecommunications company BT is planning to launch three pay-television channels to exploit the sports rights it has acquired in recent months, according to the Financial Times

UK pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has renewed its rights deal with the Nascar motor-racing series for the top-tier Sprint Cup competition for two years, 2013 and 2014
Football

BBC Alba, the Gaelic-language channel operated by UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has acquired live rights to the Scottish Premier League, Scotland’s top domestic football league, for two seasons, 2…
Rugby Union

The Rugby Football Union, the sport’s governing body in England, will partner with video-sharing website YouTube to live stream all of the England national team’s autumn internationals in markets outside the…

Ian Livingstone, the chief executive of UK telecommunications company BT, said he was “minded to appeal” a court decision that blocked efforts to force pay-television broadcaster BSkyB from lowering who…