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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky will dedicate a channel to the 2015 Cricket World Cup for the duration of the national team tournament.

The tender process for golf’s Open Championship in Britain is currently taking place, with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC in danger of losing its exclusive domestic rights to pay-television broadcaster Sky, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Sky has hit out at Ed Richards, the former chief executive of Ofcom, after he said that he felt “vindicated” by court rulings in favour of the UK media regulator against the pay-television broadcaster.

UK media regulator Ofcom has said Sky’s dominance of the UK pay-television sports rights market could harm competition, but stated it is “less clear” that an obligation to share content with other broadcasters should be extended to its rival, telecommunications company BT.

Telecommunications and pay-television operator BT has confirmed that it will be able to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 on its YouView boxes from today (Tuesday).

Pan-European broadcaster Sky has agreed to sell a controlling interest in its gaming business Sky Bet so that it can concentrate on its pay-television operations.

Domestic county cricket could return to free-to-air television in the UK as soon as the 2015 season, according to Richard Gould, chief executive of Surrey.

The welterweight boxing bout between Britain’s Amir Khan and American Devon Alexander in Las Vegas on December 13 has secured broadcast deals in the UK and Germany.

Ofcom will be fighting a lonely battle in trying to convince the Premier League to make all of its matches available for live broadcast in the UK.

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.

UK media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation today (Tuesday) into how the Premier League sells domestic live rights for matches from the top division of English football.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB is to dedicate one of its Sky Sports channels to coverage of the Professional Darts Corporation’s 2015 World Darts Championship event.

BSkyB is to be renamed as Sky after the UK pay-television broadcaster confirmed that it had completed acquisitions of Sky Italia in Italy and a majority stake in Sky Deutschland in Germany and Austria.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB will provide live coverage of a women’s cricket Test match for the first time when England hosts Australia in the 2015 Ashes.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has partnered with electronics company Samsung to provide near-live video clips of England’s autumn international rugby union matches on social networking site Twitter.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has said it will own 87.45 per cent of Sky Deutschland once its takeover of the German pay-television broadcaster closes.