Discovery

Italian state broadcaster Rai is the strong favourite to land the rights for Euro 2016, which were put out to tender this week, and is expected to do so at a substantial discount.

Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has increased its stake in the French division of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport to the 51-per-cent mark.

Rupert Murdoch’s US media company, 21st Century Fox, has denied reports that it has held talks over a takeover of global media and entertainment company Discovery Communications.

Discovery Communications is ready to invest in sports-rights for pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, according to the global media and entertainment company’s chief financial officer, Andy Warren.

Telecommunications company Discovery Communications, the parent company of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, will submit a bid for the next cycle of domestic rights to football’s English Premier League, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

The TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Impact Wrestling series will be broadcast by German free-to-air television channel DMAX, according to the DWDL.de website.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has said it has received non-binding, conditional investment proposals from a “number of parties”.

Susanne Aigner-Drews has been appointed as the new managing director of the German division of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport.

Foxtel chief executive Richard Freudenstein has denied that Australia’s anti-siphoning regulations would become redundant if the pay-television operator acquires commercial broadcaster Ten in a joint deal with pay-television broadcaster Discovery Communications.

BeIN Media Group and the Pitch International agency have agreed a host of deals for the International Handball World Championships over the past few weeks, TV Sports Markets understands.

Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Asia doubled the value of European club rugby in Asia this month, adding the new Champions Cup competition to a strong rugby portfolio.

The Danish Superliga has increased its domestic rights fee despite limited competition by offering its rights for six years – an option opened up by a change in policy by the country’s competition authority.

Interview with Claus Thomsen, chief executive of the Divisionsforeningen, the body which sells Danish Superliga rights, on the league’s six-year deals with Modern Times Group and SBS Discovery Media.

Statement from Søren Bo Rasmussen, head of the media division at the Danish Competition Authority, the Konkurrencestyrelsen, on why the regulator allowed six-year domestic broadcast deals with Modern Times Group and SBS Discovery Media for the Superliga.

Al Jazeera set to buy out MP & Silva from beIN Sports in Asia

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