BeIN Sports (Middle East)

Canal Plus will demand €293m ($401m) in compensation from rival French pay-television broadcaster in a lawsuit submitted to the country’s Tribunal de Commerce business court, according to the BFM Business news website.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired the exclusive rights to the Formula One motor racing championship in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Badminton

India holds the key to high value of Asian badminton rights in MP & Silva deal

Table Tennis

Eurosport deal helps international table tennis federation in push beyond Asian heartland

Volleyball

Pitch International lands volleyball World Championship in 2014

Football

Mediaset’s €700m Champions League gamble is part of Italo/Spanish pay-TV plan

Discovery’s accelerated takeover raises big questions about the future of Eurosport's EBU rights deals...

Football

Belgian Pro League spoiled for choice ahead of key meeting to discuss media-rights offers

Rugby Union

Top 14 rights saga is case study in the use of market power

Tennis

Australian Open enjoys boom in media-rights value in two new Asian deals

Football

TF1 pays less for France matches but Uefa still happy with deal

TF1’s Le Lay says focus is now on major events

Football

Middle East market could be set to heat up again as Abu Dhabi Media lands European Qualifiers

Handball

Al Jazeera beats rivals to land handball World Championships

Ufa Sports: We will bounce back after handball loss

Handball

Interview with Sandi Sola, treasurer and executive member of the International Handball Federation, on its new global deal with Al Jazeera covering the World Championships in 2015 and 2017.

Rugby Union

Canal Plus offers more than double but it's still not enough to hang on to Top 14

Football

Uefa does good business for Euro 2016 in Sweden and Hong Kong

Football

Premier League gets tough, even with Murdoch, to protect UK investments of Sky and BT

Football

Hutton replaces Radrizzani as MP & Silva CEO and leads charge into Asia with Al Jazeera