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Football

Spanish telco Telefónica will this week assume full control of Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 rights in the country.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights in Portugal to all matches from the 2020 Uefa European Championship and will now seek to find a free-to-air partner for Portugal national team matches
Tennis

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT has announced that it has acquired rights to the French Open for the next three years, adding yet more content to its new ERT Sports channel
Cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board has named the Blitz and Trans Group consortium as the new live production partner of this year’s Pakistan Super League after the IMG-Reliance agency withdrew from its deal f…
Squash

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has signed a multi-year rights agreement with social media platform Facebook
Football

The Asian Football Confederation is increasing its efforts to fight Intellectual Property theft by appointing experts to further protect the rights of its broadcast and commercial partners

OTT provider FloSports' portfolio of championships and properties gained a boost as the broadcaster will again air the Big 12 conference winter and spring championships
Baseball

The owner of Major League Baseball team the Los Angeles Angels, Arte Moreno, reaffirmed earlier this week that he's interested in buying the two Regional Sports Networks which air the Angels' matches

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is in talks to buy beIN Sports, with a target completion date for the deal of before the summer, according to French media reports
Football

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has fined Sky Italia €7m ($7.9m) after ruling the pay-television broadcaster failed to properly market its rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic football.