Eurosport

Cycling

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai and sports broadcaster Eurosport have renewed their deals for the Giro d’Italia, but the shorter domestic contract length and dramatic fee increase in both deals illustrates a more aggressive approach from commercial rights-holder RCS Sport.

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky has fired the latest shot in its battle with Discovery Communications, the parent company of international sports broadcaster Eurosport, by criticising its approach to negotiations over a carriage deal, adding that the US company is seeking close to £1bn (€1.16bn/$1.25bn) for an agreement.
Multi-sport

Discovery Communications’ decision to end negotiations with Germany’s public-service broadcasters over the free-to-air rights for the Olympic Games will be a very expensive one.

Football

UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 outbid public-service broadcaster the BBC for rights to the women’s European Championship in 2017.
Football

Sports broadcaster Eurosport is thought to have faced no real competition for the rights in the UK and Ireland to the 2017 and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
Motorsport

Will Partington, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for motorcycling’s MotoGP World Championship in selected European markets.
Football

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured exclusive rights for the English Football League Cup knockout competition in Brunei and Malaysia.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed an exclusive deal to distribute content from the DR1 Racing drone racing series in 70 countries across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Tennis

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has greatly increased its spend on Wimbledon media rights across Europe following a host of new deals agreed in recent weeks.

Tennis

International sports broadcaster Eurosport recovered a third of its spend on the 2016 US Open in Asia from a deal with LeSports in Hong Kong.

Tennis

The French tennis federation last week secured an increase of just over 11 per cent in the value of its domestic French Open rights after agreeing an early renewal with France Télévisions.

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has signed a long-term extension to its carriage deal with media firm Liberty Global.

Tennis

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has strengthened its coverage of tennis grand slam Wimbledon by acquiring the rights to the championships in a further 16 countries.

Cricket

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in the UK to the forthcoming cricket series between Sri Lanka and Australia.

Football

Christian Seifert, chief executive of the German football league, told TV Sports Markets this week the latest domestic Bundesliga deals would entrench it as one of the world’s top three football leagues.

Sport Climbing

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has entered into an agreement with the International Federation of Sport Climbing to begin broadcasting its monthly highlights programme in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tennis

UK media regulator Ofcom is analysing a proposed deal that would result in international sports broadcaster Eurosport becoming the first commercial entity to televise live coverage in the UK of the Wimbledon tennis grand slam.

Football

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications unveiled a series of deals this (Thursday) morning covering the Olympic Games and European national team football qualifiers, as well as new strategic partnerships in Spain, Italy and Chile.