Eurosport

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has acquired exclusive international media rights to the Pro D2, the second division of French club rugby union.

The French division of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions have acquired rights to domestic rugby union league the Pro D2 under five-year deals.

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.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has secured live rights to the international football friendly match between Italy and England in Turin tonight (Tuesday).

Italy’s Lega Serie A will enter into talks on Monday with three bidders for media-rights packages in relation to the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football competitions, according to the IlVelino.it website.

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport is thought to be paying a strong rights fee for Major League Soccer rights across Europe, excluding the UK, in its four-year deal agreed last week.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights for North America’s Major League Soccer.

Canal Plus and Eurosport are battling it out over the pay-television rights to French rugby union’s Pro D2, with the existing rights fee set to treble.

The Vuelta a España cycle race earned a strong increase in media-rights fee from the European Broadcasting Union in a five-year deal finalised late last month.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport is to broadcast live coverage of Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker’s attempt to break the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) Hour Record.

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has secured exclusive rights across the continent to the inaugural Global Baseball Match-Up between Japan and Europe.

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.

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has acquired the exclusive television and digital rights in Germany for the English FA Cup club football knockout competition.

The British Eurosport division of the international sports broadcaster has acquired rights for the International Motorcycling Federation’s World Endurance Championship.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has agreed an exclusive carriage deal with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Fox International Channels, the broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox, has strengthened its operations in the UK and France by appointing two new senior members of staff.