ESPN agrees international basketball rights renewal

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has renewed its deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN, for a further three years, from 2013 to 2015.

The renewal includes multi-platform rights to six major Fiba events during the period: the 2013 and 2015 Americas Championships, the 2013 and 2015 EuroBasket tournaments, the 2014 Basketball World Cup and the 2014 World Championship for Women.

ESPN will provide coverage of more than 400 games across the six tournaments, in both English and Spanish language. Coverage will be shown across ESPN’s family of channels, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes. Matches involving the USA, and all gold medal matches, will be shown live on ESPN or ESPN2 and on ESPN Deportes.