Pitch International
Pitch shores up under-pressure rights portfolio
The Pitch International agency agreed international rights deals for the Irish, Scottish and Welsh rugby unions earlier this month. The deals will help the agency shore up an international rugby rights portfolio which has come under pressure this year.
Pitch adds IRFU extension to rugby rights portfolio
The Pitch International agency has extended a deal with the Irish Rugby Football Union for the global distribution of media rights to the Ireland national team’s home fixtures.
Pitch International renews Wales rugby deal
The Pitch International agency has renewed an international media-rights distribution deal for the Wales national rugby union team’s home fixtures.
Pitch International to tackle Scottish Rugby’s global rights
The Pitch International agency has reached a three-year deal with Scottish Rugby for the national rugby union governing body’s global broadcast rights.
MCS kept out of Argentinian deal
French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports picked up the rights to the Argentinian Primera División this week in a deal with the Pitch International agency.
IMG rugby snatch confirmed
IMG Media’s acquisition of the international rights to European club rugby was due to be confirmed late this week. The deal was reported exclusively in the last issue of TV Sports Markets.
Clubs double their money as the ‘new’ IMG shows its teeth
The IMG Media agency today (June 13, 2014) confirmed a deal to distribute global media rights to European club rugby's new elite tournaments, run by European Professional Club Rugby.
Read here TV Sports Markets' report from two weeks ago on how IMG won the bidding war with rival agencies to land the rights.
Pitch International pounces for handball worlds
The Pitch International agency has acquired exclusive distribution rights for the men’s and women’s International Handball World Championships in 2015 and 2017.
IMG set to challenge Pitch for European club rugby
The bidding for the rights for the competitions of European Professional Club Rugby, the new European governing body for club rugby, is set to be a battle between incumbent rights-holders Pitch International and the IMG Media agency.
RSE Ventures says it will turn a profit on friendly competition
US friendly football tournament set to turn a profit this year
ICC looks to double its money to cement contested overhaul
The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales
Clubs the real winners in BT-Sky deal
Clubs are real winners from BT-Sky sharing deal for European rugby
Pitch scoops up men’s volleyball rights
The Pitch International agency will distribute media rights for the 2014 Men’s World Volleyball Championship in Poland.
Al Jazeera set to take control in Asia
Al Jazeera set to buy out MP & Silva from beIN Sports in Asia
Pitch muscles out rival agencies
Pitch International lands volleyball World Championship in 2014
Sky locks out BT from raft of rights but rights-holders are in driving seat
Sky keeps BT at arm’s length with seven long-term rights deals
Pitch International takes SpursTV to wider audience
The Pitch International agency has struck rights deals with four broadcasters for SpursTV, the weekly television programming package dedicated to English Premier League top-tier football club Tottenham Hotspur.
Sony Six’s January spending spree
In the increasingly competitive Indian pay-television market, Sony Six has begun 2014 on the front foot, snapping up prestigious properties in cricket, football, tennis and rugby...