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Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in North America for the MotoGP world championship and renewed a deal for fellow motorcycle-racing series WorldSBK.

Servus TV’s acquisition of rights to motorcycling series MotoGP last month has come at a high cost as the commercial broadcaster will share coverage in Austria with Eurosport.

Servus TV, the German commercial broadcaster owned by energy drinks brand Red Bull, has acquired rights in Austria for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

The IMG agency has agreed a multi-season extension to its television rights distribution deal for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has renewed its deal for MotoGP rights across sub-Saharan Africa, paying a significant increase to beat competition from rival StarTimes.

The Sportsman Media Group agency has appointed Giuseppe Sampino as its new director of media rights.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal for the Superbike World Championship (WSBK) motorcycling series.

MotoGP commercial rights-holder, the Dorna Sports agency, has said the 2015 season of the motorcycling championship will receive record global broadcast coverage.

Cypriot pay-television broadcaster CyTAvision has expanded its motorsport portfolio over the past month, striking two new deals.

Pay-television network Ten Sports’s desire for exclusivity pushed up the value of MotoGP rights in the Indian subcontinent in last month’s deal.

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has confirmed an exclusive five-year deal for the rights to motorcycling championship MotoGP in the region.

The International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) has signed a two-year deal for the Dorna Sports agency to manage the television rights for a number of championships promoted by the governing body.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in Europe’s five largest markets for motorcycling’s MotoGP world championship

Dorna Sports, the commercial rights-holder of the MotoGP racing championship, secured a decent increase in its rights fee from the German market in a deal with Eurosport late last month.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired the exclusive television and digital rights for the MotoGP motorcycling championship in the Netherlands, as well as pay-television and digital rights in Belgium, for the four seasons running from 2015 to 2018.

European pay-television sports broadcaster Eurosport has confirmed the acquisition of rights in Germany for the MotoGP motorcycling world championship.