United Kingdom

Football

The English Premier League, the top division of football in England, will break through the £5 billion (€6.24 billion/$7.93

Marc Watson, the chief executive of UK pay-television operator BT Vision, which re-emerged as a major player in the sports rights market at this year’s English Premier League domestic rights auction, h…
Baseball

Premier League enjoys massive increases in more key territories but cooling Middle East market provides a major challenge

Cricket

New West Indies deal reflects changing world order in cricket

Football

F1 deals in Finland and Holland
Boxing

Primetime signs up Hatton
Darts

UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN has renewed its rights to the British Darts Organisation World Professional Darts Championships to cover the 2013 event
Boxing

UK pay-per-view channel Primetime has acquired rights for Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko on November 24. Primetime will charge viewers in the UK and Ireland £14.99 (€18.50/$23.87)
Football

Fifa-Uefa challenge to UK listed events law reaches critical stage

American Football

Bernie hopes NBC can deliver bigger US platform for F1
Rugby Union

TF1 pays big increase to hang on to Rugby World Cup

UK telecommunications company BT has appointed Simon Green, chief executive of pay-television boxing channel BoxNation, as the head of its new UK sports channel, according to the Guardian newspaper
Basketball

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has renewed a rights deal for coverage of the British Basketball League, the country’s top division of basketball.
Athletics

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has extended its deal to distribute the international rights for the London marathon for three years, from 2016 to 2018
Cricket

BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market
Football

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB will be able to absorb the “bulk of the costs” incurred by the huge increase in its rights fee for live coverage of the English Premier League from the start of nex…
Football

Alfonso Medina has been appointed as the new head of media rights at the English Football League, which represents the three divisions below the top-tier Premier League

Rik Dovey, formerly deputy managing director of Sky Sports at UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, left the broadcaster in July, it has emerged