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UK pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired rights for the Champions Hockey League European club ice hockey competition.

The International Ice Hockey Federation this week secured a strong increase in the value of the media and marketing rights to its World Championship, but some experts believe it could have earned even more.

The International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) has extended its media rights and marketing partnership with the Infront Sports & Media agency through the 2017-18 season.

The International Ice Hockey Federation, the sport’s global governing body, has confirmed a renewal of a media rights deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.

The Infront Sports & Media agency is in advanced negotiations with the International Ice Hockey Federation to renew its media rights to the annual flagship World Championship, TV Sports Markets understands.

Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired rights for the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship across South America and the Caribbean.

Lega Serie A has launched an invitation to tender for the domestic rights to the top division of Italian football for three seasons, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

Pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports, which operates in the Indian subcontinent, has acquired rights for the DFB Cup club football tournament in Germany.

The MP & Silva agency said that its deal earlier this month for the FIM Superbike World Championship in Latin America, excluding Brazil, and the Caribbean, was part of a strategy to expand into the region and into motorsports generally.

The German Ski Association, the Deutscher Skiverband (DSV), secured a small increase in the value of its media rights outside Germany in a renewal with the Infront Sports & Media agency this week.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has retained the international media rights to all International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup events taking place in Germany until the 2020-21 season under a renewed agreement with the German Ski Association (DSV).

The Infront Sport & Media agency has reached a deal for Mir TV to broadcast the 2014 Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship in six markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Infront Sports & Media and Italy’s Lega Serie A have formalised their agreement confirming the agency as the league’s exclusive adviser for the national and international media rights to all its properties, including the top division of Italian football, with packages for a domestic rights tender set to be defined in the “forthcoming days”.

Digital sports media service SlovakSport.TV has acquired exclusive rights in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for the inaugural season of the Champions Hockey League European club ice hockey tournament.

The Infront Sports & Media agency’s contract as media adviser to Italian football’s Serie A was approved as expected yesterday, but not without some of the usual drama which has come to mark the league’s assemblies.

The Infront Sports & Media agency and International Olympic Committee have hailed the success of the sub-Saharan broadcast strategy put in place for the 2014 Sochi winter Games, adding the initiative will be repeated for the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.