Air Racing

World Championship Air Race has appointed London-based production company Aurora Media Worldwide to develop its broadcast format as it prepares to launch next year

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Asia has sealed a rights deal with the Drone Racing League.

USA

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has acquired rights for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed a rights deal for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in its home country, along with Austria and Switzerland.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a global rights distribution deal with the International Drone Racing Association, a worldwide organisation for first-person-view drone racing.

Media rights clips from May 14 to 27

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired exclusive rights to the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

French channel MCS Extreme, operated by pay-television operator Ma Chaîne Sport, has acquired rights for the X Games and Red Bull Air Race extreme sports events.

German cable and satellite-television news channel N-tv has acquired rights for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship this year.

Servus TV, the German commercial broadcaster owned by energy drinks brand Red Bull, will show coverage of the returning Red Bull Air Race World Championship this year.

Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service. 

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…