Eurosport

The British Eurosport division of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has struck a rights deal with Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association for exclusive pay-television coverage of five grass court tournaments in the lead-up to the Wimbledon grand slam event.

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters and pan-European broadcaster Eurosport have extended their rights agreement for the Vuelta a España cycling race under a five-year deal running from 2016 to 2020.

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.

Sports media industry veteran Peter Hutton has been appointed chief executive of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, it was announced this (Wednesday) afternoon.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed an expanded carriage deal with cable-television operator Multimedia Polska in Poland.

British Eurosport, the UK division of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, and UK free-to-air channel Quest will broadcast live coverage of the 2014 Dubai Challenge Cup one-off exhibition football match.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is to expand its television coverage of the 2015 European Rally Championship motor-racing series.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured exclusive live rights in Germany to the 2014 Fifa Club World Cup football tournament, which commenced today (Wednesday) in Morocco.

Eurosport France will withdraw from the country’s digital-terrestrial television market when media and entertainment company Discovery Communications increases its stake in the French division of pan-European sports broadcaster to the 51-per-cent mark.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights for a series of tournaments operated by football’s global governing body Fifa, including the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada.

The German Bundesliga is set to more than double its international rights value from 2015-16 onwards following a host of deals agreed in recent weeks.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport last week renewed a host of top skiing rights, with expanded exclusivity and at slight fee increases, in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has lost its automatic right to share content acquired by the European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters.

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

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

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has signed a long-term agreement with the Infront Sports & Media agency to consolidate its extensive portfolio of winter sports events through to the 2020-21 season.