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The Saran Media agency has acquired the Turkish media rights for the 2013 and 2014 Fifa Club World Cup football tournaments, which will take place in Morocco.

Japanese commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV Asahi has acquired rights for motor racing’s new electric car-racing Formula E Championship.

German public-service broadcaster ARD has acquired rights for the 2013 Fifa Club World Cup football tournament.

Telefónica has struck a deal with pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport for coverage of the French Open tennis tournament on the telecommunications company’s IPTV platform Movistar TV in Spain.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has said 2013 will provide the broadest international broadcast reach for the two sports to date.

The International Handball Federation has received a record offer from Qatari pay-television operator Al Jazeera for the next cycle of global rights to its World Championships, according to German magazine Handball Time.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has announced the appointment of Helena Choe in a newly created position designed to aid the firm’s drive into the Asian sports broadcast market.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Deportes has signed a two-year deal with American football league the NFL under which the Super Bowl will be televised by a US Spanish-language channel for the first time.

The Sportfive International agency has agreed a deal with the Netball Singapore governing body for the host production and global distribution rights to its 2013 Nations Cup competition.

Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a multi-year deal with the NBA for the exclusive live rights to the North American basketball league in the UK and Ireland.