National Basketball Association (NBA)

Basketball

Interviews with Matt Brabants, senior vice president of global media distribution and business operations, and Elsa Memmi, vice president of global media distribution across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on the NBA’s global media rights strategy.

Basketball

German sports broadcaster Sport1 last month picked up rights to the Fiba World Cup, which takes place in August, in a cash and airtime deal.

Ice Hockey

Sport1’s deal last week for the rights to the National Hockey League means the sports broadcaster now has exclusive rights to each of the four top North American sports leagues.

Rights-holders need a ‘different mindset' in Africa, report says

Baseball

Sport1 acquires MLB baseball rights in Germany

Basketball

Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the owning and operating group of NBA basketball franchise San Antonio Spurs, has announced a multi-year extension to its local rights deal with CBS-affiliated television channel Kens-TV.

Rugby Union

Top 14 rights saga is case study in the use of market power

Basketball

Interview with Prasana Krishnan, head of business at Sony Six, on the broadcaster’s acquisition of the rights to the 2014 and 2018 Fifa World Cups

Basketball

NBA wants one home in the UK

Fox Sports buys Eredivisie rights in Italy

German broadcaster Sport1 targets pay-TV growth

In its haste to exit the UK, ESPN may have missed an opportunity with its ESPN America channel

Football

English Premier League considers launching own channel in only two territories without a deal.

Athletics

Television rights deals with incumbent partners ABC/ESPN and TNT likely to be the most valuable of the year.