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Rugby Union
United Kingdom

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has teamed up with commercial broadcaster ITV to submit a joint bid for the rights to the Six Nations rugby union national team tournament.

Paralympics
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has secured rights to the inaugural World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge, which takes place in London later this year.

Boxing
Ireland

Belfast fighter Carl Frampton’s International Boxing Federation world super bantamweight title defence against Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. will be shown by commercial broadcasters ITV and UTV in the UK and Ireland, respectively.

Football
France

Joseph Rivers, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence examines free-to-air television audiences in the big five European markets for the 2014-15 Uefa Europa League

Cycling
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired rights to the inaugural edition of cycling’s Tour de Yorkshire, which takes place from May 1-3.

Cricket
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired rights for highlights of the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Boxing
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired live rights to IBF super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton’s first title defence against Chris Avalos.

Cricket
United Kingdom

UK political party Labour is considering plans to increase the number of sporting events included on the ‘crown jewels’ list reserved for broadcast on free-to-air television, according to the Independent.
Poland

The World Rally Championship has agreed new rights deals in the UK and Poland ahead of the start of the 2015 season of the motor racing series tomorrow (Thursday).
United Kingdom

Even in a tournament in which the England national team disappointed, football matches from the Fifa World Cup dominated the top UK television audiences last year
Football
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is preparing a bid to acquire domestic highlights for the English Premier League in the next rights cycle for the top division of football in the country, according to the Guardian newspaper.

Football
United Kingdom

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has opened talks with commercial broadcaster ITV over sharing the exclusive live UK rights for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football competitions, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Cycling
Flanders

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at audiences in key European markets for the 2014 Tour de France

Cycling
United Kingdom

The 2014 Tour of Britain will be broadcast in the UK on both free-to-air digital channel ITV4 and British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, organisers of the cycling race have confirmed.

Football

The World Cup rights deals signed by Fifa in the UK and Germany just before the current tournament kicked off confirmed the difficulties the governing body has had in securing decent fee increases in both markets and in Europe generally.

Tennis
Europe

There were mixed results for broadcasters of this year's French Open, Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Cycling
United Kingdom

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, and UK commercial broadcaster ITV have acquired rights to the British Cycling National Road Championships, which take place from June 26-29.

Football
United Kingdom

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has signed an agreement with social video platform Grabyo to share match highlights and post-match commentary clips from its live television coverage of football’s 2014 Fifa World Cup across ITV.com and social networking services Facebook and Twitter.