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The IMG agency has agreed a multi-year deal to represent the global media rights of the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation’s World Cup Series.

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), the country’s top financial watchdog, has issued a show cause notice against the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Indian Premier League, broadcasters and agencies in relation to a media-rights deal agreed in the founding years of the Twenty20 tournament.

The Ladies Golf Union and IMG agency have signed new five-year agreements with UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and public-service broadcaster the BBC for rights to the Women’s British Open.

The IMG agency has signed an expanded agreement to distribute the global rights to the Danish Superliga football competition.

The Infront Sports and Media agency is to take over the marketing of media rights for the World Endurance Championship motor-racing series, according to the Motorsport Total news website.

The value of domestic broadcast rights to Ukraine Premier League football could take a big hit in the forthcoming round of deals due to the economic crisis brought on by the political conflict in the country over the last year.

TV Sports Markets understands that a sharing arrangement for the domestic rights to golf’s British Open between a free-to-air and a pay-television broadcaster is unlikely.

The IMG College division of the IMG agency has signed a 10-year extension, from 2016-17 to 2025-26, to its multi-media rights partnership with East Carolina University in the US.

Digital media company Perform and the IMG Events & Media agency have come away honours even after head-to-head battles for two of the biggest contracts in the sports betting rights market.

IMG Events & Media will provide the lion’s share of the Fédération Equestre Internationale’s media-rights income after the governing body this month renewed its deals with long-term partners IMG and the European Broadcasting Union.

US networks CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC, along with the IMG and WME agencies, have joined forces to apply for the dismissal of a legal action brought by a group of college American football and basketball players, claiming it would mean “chaos” for sports broadcasting.

The Fédération Equestre Internationale, the global governing body of equestrian, has renewed its long-standing broadcast partnerships with the European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters, and the IMG agency through to the end of 2022.

About 100 jobs will be cut at the IMG agency in the coming weeks, according to multiple reports in the US.

Agencies Zenith Media and IMG Events & Media are in pole position to win the rights to Malaysia’s M-League after an aggressive joint bid.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A) could be forced to sell at least some of the rights to the British Open to pay-television if it is to increase the media rights value of the competition.

The IMG agency has appointed Christian Saloman as managing director of its business operations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.