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Telecommunications company BT’s spending power in the auction for the next cycle of rights for football’s English Premier League could be restricted by proposals put forward by Ofcom, the UK media regulator.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a two-year rights deal for exclusive live coverage in the UK and Ireland of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS network and UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport have acquired rights for the DTM German touring cars series.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a deal with the Lawn Tennis Association to provide live coverage from three showpiece UK grass court tournaments in the build-up to this year’s Wimbledon Championships.

Premiership Rugby has reported a 40 per cent increase in UK television audiences following the first year of the English Premiership rugby union league being shown live by pay-television broadcaster BT Sport.

Sky, BT and the BBC all posted positive viewing figures for the 2013-14 English Premier League season. For live coverage, pay-television broadcaster BSkyB recorded its second-best season ever, while telecommunications company BT posted figures well in excess of those achieved by previous Premier League broadcasters ESPN and Setanta ...

Euroleague Basketball has confirmed that UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport and Bulgarian pay-television broadcasters TV Plus and Film Plus HD have acquired rights for the 2014 Final Four tournament.

Domestic television audiences for the English Premier League have increased year-on-year across the league’s live and highlights coverage.

UK telecommunications company BT has cited the performance of its BT Sport pay-television platform as one of the main reasons behind a year-on-year increase in pre-tax profit during the three months to March 31, 2014.

The UK rights to the Top 14, French rugby union’s top league, enjoyed a strong increase in value in last week’s deal with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB.

UK telecommunications company BT will continue to make its BT Sport pay-television channels freely available to its broadband customers through the 2014-15 English and Scottish football season.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired rights to the Top 14, France’s top-tier rugby union club competition.

UK media regulator Ofcom has said it will review regulations that mean pay-television broadcaster BSkyB must make its Sky Sports channels available through rival providers.

The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales

UK pay-television broadcasters BT Sport and BSkyB have reached an agreement in principle on a four-year deal to share the rights to the new European Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup club rugby union competitions.